Family Portrait

[phender]

Please excuse the quality, I just took this pic with my hand reaching around to the back of the tank thru dirty glass, but I thought you would like it. Its their second nest in this tank, laid 11 days after the first.
I have raised ocellaris and orange skunks. I plan on giving these a try. I don't know yet if I'll be raising this batch.
The eggs were laid Monday evening. The anemone is a S. gigantea.

 

[OrionN]

That is a beautiful male. He is so much smaller than the female.

 

[phender]

I would say he is about normal size for a male. She however is quite large, close to 3.5". They are both regaining their color after being very faded in my BTA tank.

 

[apayne]

Very nice phender.

 

[55semireef]

I still like the photo. Great shot.

 

[818]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8688937#post8688937 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
I would say he is about normal size for a male. She however is quite large, close to 3.5". They are both regaining their color after being very faded in my BTA tank.

You just answered my question.

I was going to ask if the female was onyx. Or if it was due to an anemone fading the colors.

 

[GSMguy]

your male is perfect i hope my lil tiny pair of onyx grow up to be like yours did you aquire them seperatly or together?

 

[dc]

Very nice looking!

 

[sonofgaladriel]

Very nice! 11 days! Wow, they are busy little bees

 

[delphinus]

Love that anemone!!! .... Oh yeah, um, I guess the clowns are nice too.

 

[MJI]

Nice work, Phil.

 

[Jovreefer]

Wow.. its been an onyx breeding year! congrats

 

[Elmo18]

Nice job Phil!!!

My pair is like a mimic of yours. If you raise them, I will, too!

Best,
Ilham

 

[NewSchool04]

where did you get the gigantea phender? I've been looking around w/ no luck!

 

[phender]

I ran into it at a LFS here in SoCal. They seem to appear in streaks. You don't see any for months then all of a sudden everybody has a couple. When I got him he was about 4" across, now it is about 7".

 

[phender]

This could also go into another thread that has recently reamerged.
In regards to the fish, when I first got them they looked like this:
The female had an onyx pattern on the other side.

After about a year or so in that tank they looked like this:
You can't see the male vey well, but he is very faded too.

The pic with the eggs is about 4 months after their move to a different tank and different anemone. You can't tell, but the female has regained all the deep black on her shoulders connecting the first and second stripes and the black is slowly but obviously spreading. I don't know if it will get back all the way to the original coverage, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The male now has a completely black dorsal, where it was only partial in the original pic.

 

[NewSchool04]

Do you think it was the anemone that discolered the clowns Phil? I read and posted on that other thread also.

 

[55semireef]

Phil, did you change their diet?

 

[phender]

I can't tell you if it is the anemones or the tank, but it has happened with two seperate pairs of perc clowns. In both cases they regained their color after being removed from the tank/BTAs.

The diet has never changed. Pretty standard stuff, frozen Fromula 1 is fed about 3-4 times a week. VHP, cyclop-eeze and mysis are each fed about once or twice a week.

 

[NewSchool04]

Well, I'll be able to give a good comparison soon. I'm selling my BTA and looking for a gigantea. Either way, the BTA is going to be gon soon so I'll see what happens to the color of my Onyx clowns when that happens.
From what I've read, I think it won't be surprising to see them color up like they should.