Hi!
I had this two clownfish for a week now.... They are Amphyprion ocellaris and the anemone is Heteractis crispa.
I found out only after a few days that they are not compatible, but still heard of people who suceeded to associate them , so I said to give it a try.
Everything was normal, clowns didn't care at all about the anemone, still happy and joyfull all the time, eating like crazy .... Till yesterday, when the big clown seemed to lost it's apetite and spending a lot of time in a corner under some leaves of a macroalgae. His bevahior was like he was trying to associate with the leaves.... But he didn't ate and was like...bored. But he was still coming up when I fed them , but only picked some small pieces , most of them spitting'em out. Soon I discovered some white feces . You can see the feeces in the clip :
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Today he was worse....spending almost all the time near the bottom between the leaves. Almost no interes for food. When I came back today .....SURPRISE !! He was in the anemone! First, I got scared , thinking that he died and the anemone is eating him. Quickly I realized that he was acting like a real anemone clown, doing all the moves that clown is doing in a anemone. Everything I saw on the net regarding clowns and anemone was happening right there in front of me in my aquarium!! :celeb2:
But he is still like ill.... Not eating, spending a lot of time on a side, acting like he is on drugs. But after a while, just when I start to be worried , he starts to clean the anemone, I saw him spitting out some sand from the anemone, and some undigested food of the anemone. Than again he became letargic and lay on a side..... Than suddenly beggins to play between the anemone tentacles.
After a short period of time (an hour or so..) the other clown, the small one, became interested in the anemone. First started to touch the tentacles with the tail, and step by step dive in the anemone!
They both now stay among the tentacles, but the behavior is obviously different . First one seems like he is doing all this behavior with the last remaining energy, the other one is having a good time.
The bigger one is breathing also more rapidly....
I can show you now a clip with both of them , but you can not differenciate the behavior from this clip, you just have to trust my word...
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I had this two clownfish for a week now.... They are Amphyprion ocellaris and the anemone is Heteractis crispa.
I found out only after a few days that they are not compatible, but still heard of people who suceeded to associate them , so I said to give it a try.
Everything was normal, clowns didn't care at all about the anemone, still happy and joyfull all the time, eating like crazy .... Till yesterday, when the big clown seemed to lost it's apetite and spending a lot of time in a corner under some leaves of a macroalgae. His bevahior was like he was trying to associate with the leaves.... But he didn't ate and was like...bored. But he was still coming up when I fed them , but only picked some small pieces , most of them spitting'em out. Soon I discovered some white feces . You can see the feeces in the clip :
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z6dyqh7vnb4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Today he was worse....spending almost all the time near the bottom between the leaves. Almost no interes for food. When I came back today .....SURPRISE !! He was in the anemone! First, I got scared , thinking that he died and the anemone is eating him. Quickly I realized that he was acting like a real anemone clown, doing all the moves that clown is doing in a anemone. Everything I saw on the net regarding clowns and anemone was happening right there in front of me in my aquarium!! :celeb2:
But he is still like ill.... Not eating, spending a lot of time on a side, acting like he is on drugs. But after a while, just when I start to be worried , he starts to clean the anemone, I saw him spitting out some sand from the anemone, and some undigested food of the anemone. Than again he became letargic and lay on a side..... Than suddenly beggins to play between the anemone tentacles.
After a short period of time (an hour or so..) the other clown, the small one, became interested in the anemone. First started to touch the tentacles with the tail, and step by step dive in the anemone!
They both now stay among the tentacles, but the behavior is obviously different . First one seems like he is doing all this behavior with the last remaining energy, the other one is having a good time.
The bigger one is breathing also more rapidly....
I can show you now a clip with both of them , but you can not differenciate the behavior from this clip, you just have to trust my word...
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H5PQj1OVJmE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
