Ok guy and gals, I've had my GBTA for a few months now or so and I have a pair of true percula clowns. I've been trying to get them to house the GBTA. One evening before the lights went out my blue damsel decided to chase after my male perc and the clown fish darted so fast into my GBTA, keep in mind there is no hosting/housing taking place. The clown like I said darted into the anemone and the anemone closed kind of on him and the clown didn't move for a second or two. After a few seconds the clown came swimming out. At this point the light kicks off and the moonlight is on. And as we all know clown's orange looks black in this light, but after looking him over he had grayish spots where it is normally looking black. So I'm sure this is from the anemone stings. What are you're thoughts? The clown is fine and normal and the color is back the next day.
Anemone hosting percs
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rt67ghy
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The clown should be fine. When they first enter a nem they get stung and you may see dark spots on their body but they recover and don't show any adverse effects. The positive side is they develop immunity to the stings of that nem and may be hosted by the nem. It looks like your clown has already decided your BTA is the place to go to when chased by other fish.
ThRoewer
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Some percula are crazy picky while others take nearly everything. One of my pairs refused every anemone I tried (BTA, malu, crispa) until I offered them a gigantea - it took only a few minutes for them to get in that one and they never left it since, even when I took the anemone out of the tank to put it into another. Even now they never leave it - not even to get food: its either floating into or over the anemone or they just let it pass.
Other of my pairs took anything I offered (malu, crispa, gigantea)
Other of my pairs took anything I offered (malu, crispa, gigantea)
Yeah I'm just going to be patient they are moving around the tank a lot more since I removed the damsel(put in QT). I'm hoping they will take to it sooner or later but they seems to be partial to the surface which blows my mind seeing how they normally are 30 ft deep. I don't want to remove the anemone because it's right in the front and has only moved half an inch from when I placed it there and that was 3 months ago. I was thinking of making a plexiglass cube to put around the rock it's on and put holes all through it and put the clowns in there. However, I'm not really a force it to do it kind of aquarist unless it is better for the animals health/life.
ThRoewer
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My first percula pair (the picky ones) preferred a ceramic flowerpot and green starpolyps over a huge crispa, a malu and a BTA. They checked them out once and then returned back to their pot. This went on for almost a year until I finally found them a gigantea.
These guys insisted on their proper host anemone...
BTW, the percula with larger amounts of black come from very shallow waters, just below the tidal zone. That's where their natural host anemone - S. gigantea - is usually found. Sometimes it's just knee deep.
The percula you find in greater depths are usually associated with H. magnifica and have at best just a tiny black line around their white bars. They pretty much look like ocellaris.
These guys insisted on their proper host anemone...
BTW, the percula with larger amounts of black come from very shallow waters, just below the tidal zone. That's where their natural host anemone - S. gigantea - is usually found. Sometimes it's just knee deep.
The percula you find in greater depths are usually associated with H. magnifica and have at best just a tiny black line around their white bars. They pretty much look like ocellaris.
Yeah i have one of each, ones from Singapore and the other is from somewhere else... I know they are both wild caught which annoys me but they have a good home considering. Honestly my biggest concern with them being at the top back corner is one of them has jumped out like twice and luckily I was home and decided to look at my tank each time and found him. I have no idea how he is making the jump.
