anemone alternative

[brians4671]

I have a small farm raised tomato clown in a 29 gallon. live rock and live sand. unfortunatly i cannot house an anemone what are my alternatives? i want to provide something for my clown. Thanks for any offered advice.

[orbit]

i think any kind of coral that look like anemone will work

u can try something like a torch or hammer

[Illuminati]

Clowns don't need a host however if you want to try I agree with the above poster, a Torch or Hammer might work.
My clown hosts a Torch.

[brians4671]

will my clown frolic in it like the relationship the clown has with the anemone?

[brians4671]

in detail my clown will rest on the sponging from my hang on protein skimmer at night. just trying to be a good fish keeper.

[LionfishFinatic]

Originally posted by brians4671
will my clown frolic in it like the relationship the clown has with the anemone?

Yes he will lol. I had a clown host in my torch coral, but the bad thing was he made it retract. I think a decent sized frogspawn will do fine though, not a tiny frag.

[cherubfish pair]

There are some rock anemones and flower anemones that don't get very big.

[Y-DesygnGuy]

Long tentacle plate corals look just like an anemone. The clown should host in that as well.

[Toygrr]

occasionally mine hosts my torches, but he might be too big. Do your torches sometimes shrivel up at night?

[orbit]

yea my torch shrivel up at night when the lights are off, its get to be like half it size during lights out

idk if thats normal tho, but when the lights are on its very nice

[Lance M.]

My Tomatoes host green star polyps and a torch coral during the day and at night they sleep on some large blue/violet mushrooms and sometimes rub against them during the day. I'd say mine mainly host the mushrooms.