baby clowns

[puffer21]

friday im going to pick up some baby clowns they are about an inch and very cute. they are wild caught clowns. i also soon plan on getting an anemone. a rbta. would it matter how long i wait to get the bta. if i wait 3 months will my clowns still host in it. my tank is also a year old and parm are fine. although what should my caluim be.

 

[jpierson77]

I had my clowns for a little over two months before I through in my RBTA. My clowns hosted the anem. with in the first few days. However I think I was lucky many on this forum dont see these results, some take up to a year and some never do. So if your clowns are gonna host they will do it if you wait three months. Being wild caught will seriously help your chances of hosting. As far as I know Anems. dont need calcium to be too high. I have mine at 440 ppm because I have sps. You should be fine if you are in the 370-400 range. Natural sea water is at 400-425, according to my salifert test kit. Good luck

 

[puffer21]

what if my calcium is at 300 is that still ok

 

[jpierson77]

I would think you would be ok. My reasoning is that an anemone is a soft tissue animal, and gets most of its nutrients from the light and food youi feed it. SPS coals such as acropora use the calcium to grow. But this is just my thoughts on the matter, maybe by me bumping this back to the top someone else might be able to give you a concrete yes or no. What other corals do you have in the tank?

 

[clord]

Calfo says as long as you alk is pretty constant it doesn't matter if you calcium is a little low. 300 Might be a little to low though

 

[puffer21]

ok thanks

 

[Nagel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6969850#post6969850 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jpierson77
Being wild caught will seriously help your chances of hosting.

I totally disagree with this statement. Wild or Captive Bred has NOTHING at all to do with it.. You can't change 10 thousand years of evolution with a few captive spawns / generations..

Want proof?

1 Pair of ORA Captive Bred Black Ocellaris. I had them 1 1/2 years before putting them in a tank with anemones. Within the first 24 hours they had chosen an anemone (there are 4 BTAs in that tank) and now host in it.

1 Pair of ORA Captive Bred Orange Ocellaris. The girl I got them from had them hosting in a BTA, and they have been in that same BTA for me for the past 4 years.

1 Pair of Captive Bred Fire Clowns from Ithaca Reefs. I had them for 2 months, then introduced an anemone to their tank. They jumped into the anemone within minutes.

1 Pair of ORA Clarkii Clowns. Introduced them to a tank, and within the first hour chose an anemone. Have since moved them to a FOWLR, and they now host in a spare patch of GSP's

1 Juvenile Pair of locally bred True Perculas. They took to an LTA within 15 minutes of being introduced to the tank.

***DO NOTE***
In captivity, clowns DO NOT need an anemone. We don't have the same predators that a wild reef does. It will not make one bit of difference to them if there is an anemone at all (I have a pair of True Percs, pair of Black Saddlebacks, pair of WSM's, pair of Bicinctus, pair of Cinnamon and pair of Tomato's all without an anemone)..

Anemones require very good water quality, decent lighting (medium to high depending on the anemone) and a mature / stable tank. Those three are far more important then the calcium level to an anemone.. Your tank is a year old, thats *usually* mature enough, but what kind of lighting do you have??

 

[puffer21]

i am getting a mh and aslothe css65. my amonia is 0, ph 8.2. nitate 10 and nitrite 0. and i wont get the anemone for at least a year. i have also pickedup the clowns and i will post a picture in a coulple of mintutes.

 

[puffer21]