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[joeycadre]

my clarkii's are now hosting my hadoni carpet anemone. yay!!!!

small video

 

[schigara]

Congrats man,

Clowns are cool but they are much more fun and interesting when they are hosting something..............anything other than wiggling against the corner glass.

Sweet!

 

[Rendos]

I think the anemone must have eaten one of the clowns...I only see one in there.

 

[joeycadre]

one is very camera shy. he runs away when i get near the tank. but trust me both were in there playing.

so will one of these fish turn female and the other male? they're fairly young clarkiis.

i just don't want to end up with 2 of the same sex and have them kill each other.

 

[Rendos]

Odds are that one will be a boy and the other a girl. The larger, more dominant one will be the female.

 

[joeycadre]

that's what i thought. been a while since i had a pair of these little freaks.

 

[Mako Shark II]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12721971#post12721971 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rendos
Odds are that one will be a boy and the other a girl. The larger, more dominant one will be the female.

Boy, you're beggin' for a response, but note how well I'm behaving today!

 

[just dave]

Enjoy them and let's hope you don't regret having them later on.
Clark's anemonefish can be very aggressive especially once they have an anemone to protect. When we first opened we had a 90 gal in-wall display with a pair of Clark's that hosted in a Merten's carpet anemone and the female was responsible for a couple of deaths ( only two that I can pin on her but I suspected a couple of others.) I watched her push a passing Potter's angel into the anemone one day and another time I was introducing a cleaner shrimp into the aquarium and as I released it she swam up and grabbed it and put it into the anemone as well. She was a ****!

We use to also keep a lone Clark's with anemones so people could see the fish hosting with anemones for sale and that little ( insert word from above) would bite you ever time you went into the tank. It wouldn't just bite you , it learned to bite you in the webbing between your fingers.

If they lay eggs it can get worse.

 

[Reefdiver77]

Dave, my female clown does the same thing and goes for the webbing between my fingers everytime. She brings blood. I have tried thumping her in the "nose", etc, all to no avail.

 

[joeycadre]

hahahahaha. yeah i know. i had a pair of clarkii's back in 96 or 97. but these are the last one's added to the tank and everyone else has seniority. maybe that will help.

yeah yeah, probably not.