CoralsAddiction
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Here's a video of Clarkii and Tomato clowns sharing a H. Magnifica anemone in the wild. Viewer advisory: don't try this at home.
http://youtu.be/Kzhu-lxUOs4
http://youtu.be/Kzhu-lxUOs4
Different clowns sharing Magnifica anemone
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shifty51008
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Very cool, nice size anemone.
marc price
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That is not a Tomato clown, it isn't even in the Tomato clown complex. It is of the Skunk clown complex, A. nigripes and sharing it's H. magnifica with Clarkii complex clownfish is not exactly a uncommon occurrence, although usually with juvenile A. clarkii.
Btw, some speculate A. chagosensis is a hybird of one such pairing, A. nigripes x A. bicinctus.
Btw, some speculate A. chagosensis is a hybird of one such pairing, A. nigripes x A. bicinctus.
CoralsAddiction
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I am familiar with A. Nigripes clown. There was some doubt about ID'ing them but tomato was my closest guess. Either way, just want others to see the sharing of the anemone as many often wonder if they can keep multiple species of clowns in larger tanks.
I've seen a couple of videos showing adult Clarkii and Adult pink skunk clowns sharing H. Crispa anemone.
marc price
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Yeah, due to the skunks lack of mobility (compared to larger clownfish species), and the host anemone being in short supply, the cohabitation is fairly common in certain areas such as Okinawa Japan where adult Clarkii are tolerant or indifferent to newly settled A. perideraion pink skunks sharing the host anemone. Sometimes the skunks grow to sub-adults and male/female but are said not to spawn until the heterospecific clownfish (A. clarkii), leave. Unlike A. sandaracinos cohabitation and spawning with A. chrysopterus = A. leucokranos. I've also read that A. sanderacinos cohabitate's with A. clarkii but not sure if the clarkii reference is really chrysopterus.
Another common skunk complex cohabitation, A. akallopisos and A. allardi. On occasion, A. akallopisos and A. fuscocaudatus.
A. akindynos juveniles are seen around the perimeter of the anemone hosting A. melanopus dusky clownfish and also those with P. biaculeatus maroon clownfish.
- I'm sure Yuri could find us pix of others if he were still active on the forum...can only guess he's either busy or bored of the same old same old, idk
CoralsAddiction
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marc price
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It's a Pink skunk A. perideraion. I can see the vertical stripe at the start of 0.06 (if on a Mac, you can navigate the youtube video with the J (back), K (pause) and L (forward), keys).
CoralsAddiction
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Still can't see it but I'm going to trust you did. Lol
ThRoewer
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Well, genetic research has shown that A nigripes isn't related to the skunk clown complex but rather belongs to the African clade and is closely related to chagonensis, chrysogaster and omanensis: What we really know about the diversity of Clownfish
The old grouping of clownfish due to their (apparent) appearance is largely outdated. The other thing I expect to be shown in the future is that many of the local forms turn out to be actually separate species. Best example are the black Darwin "ocellaris" which are neither ocellaris or percula but rather a distinct species of their own.
Also, that's not just one anemone but rather a whole cluster of clones that completely covers a solitary rock (likely because they can't go anywhere).
Given the bad wrap clarkii usually gets it seems to be one of the most tolerant in the wild. It is the one you find fairly regular sharing an anemone with other clownfish species. I made similar experiences in my tanks before (though without anemone). While my ocellaris wouldn't tolerate any other fish, not even their own kind, with them in the tank, my clarkiis happily shared their tank with some percula babies. Shure, there was some chasing too, but it was never as vicious as I observed with all other clowns I had.
marc price
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Great link! ...about time I learned something new around here :thumbsup:
