In my application, I use an Activity which holds one Fragment with FragmentTabHost and hence all its tabs are nested Fragments
Activity
Fragment
FragmentTabHost
nested Fragments
Well, exploring the source code of FragmentTabHost I've found that when it adds a fragment tab, it assignes a tag of TabSpec to nested Fragment.
TabSpec
So to get the reference to this Fragment we should call
getChildFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(tabSpecTag)