Haddoni Tank

ThRoewer

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After we moved to a new place the wife wanted a Feng-Shui tank with precisely 6 black & white fish and insisted on black & white "Nemos". The tank should also be rather sparsely decorated.
So I decided to make it a haddoni tank since they were the most readily available.
I found a really large one at AC, a small at CalReef, and 2 slightly larger at Petco.
On clownfish I found a large pair of Darwin ocellaris that could actually be wild or at least very nice tank bred ones and teamed them up with a group of 4 Sea & Reef black & white misbar ocellaris.

The tank is only up a month, so there is still a red slime phase going on.

Also, as I expected, the pair only "adopted" one of the small ones and he helped viciously kicking the other 3 small ones out to hide in the 2 rocks that are in there. I guess I need to replace at least 2 of the small ones with a pair of black & white damsels to put the fear of god into the remaining clowns so that they seek shelter in the anemones. I already got 2 Tuxedo damsels from LA, but they are way too nice to risk them and may also not be mean enough. CalRef has a pair of Dascyllus that might be better suited for the task...

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Different color haddoni would be cool too, although all that aren't green are really expensive-sure your aware.
 
Video of the tank:

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One of the little darwins teamed up with the adult pair and he and the adult male are constantly harrasing and attacking 3 other small ones (who also fight among each other). But that little one is particularly viciuos in his attacks on his brethren.
So I decided to replace all 4 little ones with 3 tuxedo damsels and a new, much smaller but perfectly colored and shaped Sea & Reef darwin I found yesterday as soon as he and the damsels are through quarantine.

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My 3 haddoni in the tank. I'm still fighting the red slime...

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The small ones are very sticky, but the large one has almost completely lost its stickiness. It also has often its mouth a bit open. But otherwise it seems to do fine. It eats when I place the food directly into its mouth. Would I feed it like the others, the clowns would just steal the food.

And these are my 3 surplus haddoni in their 40B holding tank.

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I cranked the Kessil color dial up to 100% for the picture.

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Normally I have the color at about 80% which seems pretty white, but the phone camera makes it look like it's completely blue.

I completed their treatment a couple of days ago and all seem to be fine, though the purple (center) and the gray are not really sticky. The green still has a bit of an open mouth, but it is sticky like superglue. And all are eating (the top picture was taken while they were gulping down their Mysis.)

Right now I'm using those 3 for another attempt to pair anemone crabs...
 

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Well, since the red slime didn't want to disapear on its own I decided to wage chemical warfare with Chemiclean and it worked like a charm:

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I hope all is well with you. Haddoni are looking nice.

Chemiclean is the only "chemical" that I use in my tanks. I think it's relatively harmless and works wonders.
 
I hope all is well with you. Haddoni are looking nice.

Chemiclean is the only "chemical" that I use in my tanks. I think it's relatively harmless and works wonders.

All OK so far.
The two smaller Haddoni kind of "fight" for the same spot straight under the light. The large one stays rather in its corner. But sometimes it pulls its foot out off the sand for a little stroll...

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The 3 other haddoni I had to treat are doing fine as well. They didn't even bleach much during treatment. All-in-all I would say that S. haddoni is one of the hardier anemones. Unfortunately, it is also the most dangerous to other inhabitants. The 3 extras in the holding tank have already eaten an anemone crab and a bluestripe pipefish, and those usually know their way around sticky anemones...

Unfortunately, the blue gig I picked up last weekend isn't doing too well. Fourth day of treatment and it is almost completely bleached and still messing up the water and deflating every day. Hopefully it pulls through...

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Oh man, I hope that gig pulls through!

I love your haddoni tank as well, its awesome. I will be following along.
 
I think the gig will make it. The day 2 photo looks a bit concerning, but the day 4 photos shows the gig's ability to hold itself upright and the typical folds of the oral disk. Nice color!
 
I think the gig will make it. The day 2 photo looks a bit concerning, but the day 4 photos shows the gig's ability to hold itself upright and the typical folds of the oral disk. Nice color!

Yeah, today it wasn't deflated when I came home and the water was pretty clear as well. But it still seems to expel zooxanthellae. This was it after today's water change:

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