Getting something nice tonight....hopefully

BigCountry74

BigCountry74

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So...I met a super nice local reefer on craigslist that come to find out lives close to the house.

I purchased a few softies (2 mushrooms) and LPS (torch, chalice and zoa colony) out of his tank last month. Only lost one (torch coral frag).

His tank was pretty awesome. His best piece was this x-large red (bright reddish orange) bubble tip anemone, attached to this monster peice of live rock hosted by a mated pair of clowns, 1 of them being every bit of 3 inches (largest clown I had ever seen). It was quite impressive.

He text messages me today, saying he is breaking down the tank and is parting everything out.

Hopefully I will have the anemone + rock + 2 clowns in my tank tonight. Long as it does not fall thru....

Can't wait to post pics....

Any suggestions acclimating to my 135g? Hopefully it will simply be a drip acclimation. Since the anem will already be on the rock, along with the clowns.
 
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My only concern is I have a small ocellaris (tank bred) clown. but it rarely leaves the left side of my 135g. I will place the rock + anem + 2 clowns on the far right side and hopefully that will give them all enough space to acclimate?

I have 2 condys currently, and the ocellaris has never paid them any attention. so hopefully it will do the same with this one.
 
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Noticed a truck load of eggs also, least I am assuming this is what this is? it's right next to the anemone on the rock. These prob get laid a lot and eaten I am assuming?

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Nice! I got a pair of Black Clowns a little less than two weeks ago. Got a RBTA about 5 days ago, took it 3 days to come out and fully open, and the two Clowns took to it within 24hrs. I love how the Black Clowns look with the RBTA! Enjoy them!
 
Yeah I am not sure what to do about the 3rd (they are all the same breed luckily). Tank is pretty large, so everything seems to get along until the loner clown starts to get close to that anemone....then heck all hell breaks lose, but of course it breaks lose when anything gets close to that anemone for that matter....lol

This is very cool stuff to watch by the way. Mesmerizing almost...all taking place in this small world I have created in my kitchen :D

I raised my LEDs up a few inches over lunch to let the BT acclimate. It's already flatten down and looks a lot larger than the pics last night. I took those 30 min after it was in the tank.

It was a long night, the rock it was on was a LOT larger than I recalled, so I had to break down my existing wall to make room for it. Totally freaked out my foxface, but of course that fish freaks out to anything...lol

Dripped everything for a good 3 hours then brought it into the tank. Seller had the easier of the 2 jobs this time around! :D
 
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Roger that. Should not be a problem to catch and LFS for credit. It's a healthy one, decent size. Maybe I will try craigslist first though. Can prob squeeze out a few more bucks that way. Thanks to the Nemo movie...lol
 
It would probably be best to move the thrid clownfish however, in rare cases you can have a trio. Two years ago I breed B & W clowns and gave two to a friend who within a week got a similar deal as you did, a BTA with a clown. In this case the new clown was an orange juvenille. As of today all three clowns are still in his approx 185g tank (can't remeber what size it is exactly but it's 6' long), the nem has split into two one on each side of the tank. The B & W clowns are the female and male and the orange clown is the sub-adult. It's pretty cool to see the female nip the males belly until he does the submission twitch then proceeds to the sub-adult clown and nips it's belly waiting for a submission twitch. The clowns move back and forth between the anemones during the day but all sleep in the same one at night.
This pic is from summer of 2010
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This pic is from last week, Spring 2012
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I have one of those rare cases where I have a trio of clowns for over 2 years and the dominant pair is laying eggs every few weeks.
 
Nice! Yeah my wife does not want to do it...she just called and said "they are getting along ok now" lol....

She also said the RBT is HUGE compared to last night. I guess it opened up (responded) nicely to the white LEDs. When I left to head back to work after lunch the whites were not on yet. I will try to get a pic with the white lights on when I get home to show ya the girth of this thing...
 
Up until recently my friend's father had a trio of long term ocellaris that spawned regularly. I believe the female eventually died of old age recently.
 
Good looking rbta and clowns,hopefully they will all get along,I tried two breeding pairs in a 240 a 8ft tank with rbtas at each end,that lasted about an hr and the two females would meet in the middle and the fight was on,so I moved one pair to another tank. good luck.
 
Very nice RBTA and clowns you have there. It looks like they have settled right in. It's nice that the BTA was already attached to the rock, you won't have to wait for it to find a place to attach that it likes. BTW, the orange ocellaris and the two black and white ocellaris aren't different "breeds," they are the same species (Amphiprion ocellaris).
 
yeah the rock was part of the deal (main reason i was interested). I have acclimated 2 condys without rocks and it's stressfull with my powerheads, not going to lie...

it's a perfect rock for a bta. lots of mass and the hole its foot is in is huge. the rock will support 2x growth to where its at now i am estimating (if it decides not to split). the top side is flat and thats where they lay eggs. there is an egg mass on there now. when the bta is expanded during the day it overflows over the eggs. good place to lay them for sure...I am totally clueless on what to do next though. I am assuming the eggs spawn and die off (get eaten)? and if conditions are right (female is not stressed), she will lay eggs every 2-3 weeks?

all 3 clowns are orange. the first pics prob thru everyone off since i took those under blue light only.

they seem to be getting along. tank is large enough and the soloist respects their space. so now I am on the fence about what do to about the 3rd...
 
It's clear in your pics that yours are orange. I wasn't referring to that. Tahoe reefer posted a pic of two black and white ocellaris and one orange ocellaris. You referred to them as different "breeds." They are all the same species, A. ocellaris--just two different color variants.
 
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