The loose polyp should do fine in a sand bed. Clowns are known to
host in lots of things besides an anemone. I have em in feather
dusters, and also shrooms, with the frilly or wary shrooms being the
favorite. If yu ook close at the clown when its nibbling its more like
sucking onthe shroom than chewing on it. Mine sometimes look like its
nursing on the tentacles of the shrooms.......My 9ne tank with a clown
pair in it got so bad with the one clown stirring up the sand around a
big old shroom on the sand bed I had to relocate all shrooms or things
they hosed or showed an interest in up on the rocks, just so they
stopped wallowing out deepholes and stirring up the sand.

YOU can try fastening the polyp back down on the live rock. If there
is any substrate attached to its end like embedded sand etc just super
glue it in place or use a in or two to secure it on the live rock.


On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:36:00 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Hi All,

I recently went out and bought some very attractive mushrooms - white
with filaments - so almost look hairy when extended.....this afternoon I
found one of them on the substrate....I watched the tank quite closely
after that and on of my clown fish is poking away at another
polyp....and looks as if she/he is about to send that one adrift as
well....now as I understand it, Clowns should be coral/reef friendly so
does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? (the tank is not
suitable for an anenome so I don't have one) Also what should I do with
the polyp sent adrift or is it a gonner?

Gill



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