Finally finally finally found my green LTA!!

jarrod13

jarrod13

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I've been searching for one of these since I first started keeping lta's, obviously I've seen them on DD but my lfs's are pretty good and I knew with patientance I'd find one eventually. Plus the ones I see on DD usually don't impress me, rarely are they actually "neon" green (not downing DD btw). Almost had one about a year ago, bright green like I wanted but it had a small hole in the foot, I tried anyways knowing it would probably ultimately die and it did. Well the other day I finally found this beauty sitting there waiting for me, with a beautiful price tag of $40... Wooohooo!! It's currently going to reside in my 60 cube. Not sure which clownfish I want to be hosted by it yet, my favorite are occelaris but I'm scared it won't take to it, I've only had an occelaris take to an lta once and it took forever. I also don't want a clown that kicks the crap out of the sand, or as little as possible so if you have any suggestions let me know. Anyway here are some pics of my new baby. I have 7 blue plus bulbs on this tank so it's hard to get a good shot of its real color but this is pretty close, it's actually brighter in person


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Very pretty, and foot appears to be well set and in a good place.
If it were my choice I think I would go w/ Pink skunks, which not only are a natural host/nem match, but also would have wonderful contrast, and they are fairly passive as clowns go, usually.

These are your natural host match choices.
A. chrysogaster
A. clarkii
A. perideraion
 
davocean said:
Very pretty, and foot appears to be well set and in a good place.
If it were my choice I think I would go w/ Pink skunks, which not only are a natural host/nem match, but also would have wonderful contrast, and they are fairly passive as clowns go, usually.

These are your natural host match choices.
A. chrysogaster
A. clarkii
A. perideraion
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Don't forget polymnus and for the record I've seen a few videos of the what appears to be M. doreensis in the Red Sea with A. bicinctus. Here's a quick vid from youtube. Although the anemone could also be H. crispa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e28FWdWCJUg
 
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Cool vid,( I love the sound of regulators, makes me feel like I'm there!) hard to tell for sure, could be a crispa.
And I should add OP is not limited to natural host match, very common to mismatch successfully.
 
Thanks everybody! He settled in the spot I made for him right away, I just hope he stays there.

I've always liked the gasters but I have no idea where to get one
 
Beautiful LTA.

Windwood, LTAs range does not include the Red Sea. In fact, their range is the most limited of all the host species.
 
garygb said:
Beautiful LTA.

Windwood, LTAs range does not include the Red Sea. In fact, their range is the most limited of all the host species.
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I agree with you Gary, but if that video was truly taken in the Red Sea, they are found there... Imo that's a Lta in the video.
 
It always seems like occs are slowest to take a host, and slower if not a natural host.
I like the look of occs, but I prefer percs, and I think they would take to it faster.
 
I think I'll try a perc, hopefully it will work out.

I would actually like to try pink or even orange skunks but I've always pictured having the "traditional" clown with this combo, I think the bright orange will really pop with the bright green.
 
Here is the deal with gasters, you are not going to be able to find them because there collection site is banned.

Awesome nem!!

1+ on pink skunk!
 
garygb said:
Beautiful LTA.

Windwood, LTAs range does not include the Red Sea. In fact, their range is the most limited of all the host species.
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Their range isn't supposed to extend to the east coast of Africa either, yet chrysogaster is listed as a natural host.:crazy1: Figure that one out. Anyway, I have seen several other videos, just wasn't able to dig them up, where it is almost unmistable that the anemone in question is M. doreensis and the clowns are bicinctus.

Here's another great video compilation that shows what looks to be another M. doreensis. It appears around the 45 second mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhatvmqgfh0

Here's yet another, check out the 1:11 and 1:34 marks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHxEi-gOT8

Also, as a side note, it appears many of these clowns are hosting S. haddoni as well, which is not generally listed as a natural symbiot with A. bicinctus. My general thoughts on this is that much of the material we have about anemone distribution and natural anemone/anemonefish relationships is outdated and needs to be revised.
 
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Clownfishfan said:
Here is the deal with gasters, you are not going to be able to find them because there collection site is banned.

Awesome nem!!

1+ on pink skunk!
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Not true, it's just cost prohibitive to ship clowns out of that area (The Mauritius) compared to other fish such as rare wrasses and other oddities. Clowns have a very limited market and so they are not very high on collector's priority lists. That said, Jordan or Ron Popeil on RC was able to obtain two WC individuals as recently as a couple of months ago.
 
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I agree some of the info needs to be updated, and the people that created our nem FAQ sticky I believe are in the process of doing this.
I think most clowns natural instinct to accpet a host is so strong it is very common to accept non natural hosts as a substitute.
 
Thanks for posting those Winwood. My guess would be both of those anemones in those two videos are crispas, but I can't say that with certainty.
 
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