Clownfish are often hard on corals, often to the
point of killing them. They can also kill anemones
if too small for the clownfish. The best choice are
frilly mushrooms. They take the abuse very well.
Also frilly mushrooms don't move around anywhere as
much as anemones usually do.

Wayne Sallee



Big Habeeb wrote on 11/26/2007 10:27 AM:
So the regulars may remember I posted a few weeks back about my
clownfish having a white, cottony growth on a couple of his fins. Per
suggestion of the LFS I added a cleaner shrimp to my tank...I didnt
mind, I wanted one anyway...but beyond that, I watched him 'clean' the
clownfish a few nights in a row, and sure as spit, bye bye cottony
growth. Clownfish appears to be happy and healthy again, apart from
forming a relationship with an algae bloom (he seems to think its an
anemone)...sorry clownie, but that algae is gone soon as I get home
from work today.

With that in mind, anybody have a suggestion for a coral that might
make him happy? I've heard of clowns forming relationships with
hammer corals and the like...
Mitch