I need advice!
- Thread starter mccarty30
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If anyone tells you that aquacultured clowns don't have as good of hosting instincts, THEY'RE WRONG! Aquacultured fish are also healthier due to being quarantined. They won't have parasites and won't be diseased. By buying aquacultured, you also help the reefs by not stealing clownfish.
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redvipe2010
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Your hobby experience says new. You shouldn't get an anemone for a minimum of six months, and not until you have a full understanding of your tanks water parameters, and the requirements of an anemone.
sarahkucera
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How old is your tank and how long since you completed your cycle?
Hold off on the nem for at least 6 months after cycle completion. This time gives your tank time to stabilize and you time to figure out the ins and outs of your tank.
Definitely recommended that you go with aquacultured fish. The more we encourage the stores to carry aquacultured items the less damage we are doing to the reefs we so love.
Hold off on the nem for at least 6 months after cycle completion. This time gives your tank time to stabilize and you time to figure out the ins and outs of your tank.
Definitely recommended that you go with aquacultured fish. The more we encourage the stores to carry aquacultured items the less damage we are doing to the reefs we so love.
cschweitzer
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I am saying this to a tee. Tank bred clowns are not nearly as spot-on. If you put WC clowns in your tank, they immediately spot out the closest and nicest thing to host and within minutes(seconds in every case I've seen) they are nestling in. I have owned 6 wild caught percs and 5 ORA bred percs. So far, the six WC percs have been in their respective host within 10 seconds of dropping them in. My first ORA percs(picassos) have been in my tank for 8 months and still not hosting. There is a BTA, three frogspawns, and many other choices, but no luck.
The only time I have seen my tank bred percs host is when they get put in the tank with a WC perc or they decide to get protection from something. Mine host the powerheads and overflows. I would almost say the opposite of the above quote. Anyone who tells you that all tank bred clowns have nearly the same instincts of hosting right away is WRONG. They have lived for months in a tank with nothing but a bunch of other clowns. The ones in the wild have to get to an anemone quickly or they become food. A little different situation in upbringing, purely from my point of view, drastically changes their attitudes in your tank to start out. Now, will a tankbred never host anything? This is not true...they will most likely grow up and find a good host. As juvis growing into themselves, I have not seen one host unless prompted by a WC clown.
But besides that first sentance, everything else he said was absolutely true. Definitely, unless trying to get a specific clownfish that you cannot find aquacultured, go aquacultured. They will almost always be disease-free(trust me, one case of brooklynella and you will understand the importance of this), acclimate better to a tank, usually had less transport since most of the ones we find are bred in USA, friendlier, more accepting of the surroundings...so many more benefits I could name, but won't. Saving our reefs should be reason enough.
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