My new Arrival! A. Nigripes
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JER-Z
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Update...There is some interesting behavior going on w/ my 3 clowns...
The baby nigripes seems to have paired up w/ one of the picasso clowns... He has been sleeping w/ one of the picassos and the other picasso sleeps alone...
What is weird is the 2 picassos had paired up before adding the nigripes...During the day, all three stay together...
Also, now I have 3 clowns and none of them have paid any attention to my RBTA. I was kind of hoping the nigripes would show the other's how it is done...
The baby nigripes seems to have paired up w/ one of the picasso clowns... He has been sleeping w/ one of the picassos and the other picasso sleeps alone...
What is weird is the 2 picassos had paired up before adding the nigripes...During the day, all three stay together...
Also, now I have 3 clowns and none of them have paid any attention to my RBTA. I was kind of hoping the nigripes would show the other's how it is done...
marc price
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sorry , dont know much about designer clownfish .seen a few pic's of the ugly snowflake mutants but to each is own . if your picassos are a. ocellaris (same for a. nigripes) the rbta is not a natural host anemone . it will take some time before they accept it . my nigripes would not touch the rbta when the h. crispa was in the tank .was after three weeks of not eating , sulking and digging in the area where the h.crispa had been that it went to the rbta . it never interacted as well with the rbta as with the h. crispa . someday i may dedicate a tank for a group of a. nigripes and an h. magnifica . imo having a clownfish with it's natural host anemone is best . my a. polymnus used to dissapear inside the mouth of it's s. haddoni . i should have never replaced the h. crispa (had to get rid of that overgrown aptaisia i mean rbta), it's not the same without an anemone . I curently have a purple tang and two t. clams which are getting big , not much room left for another sebae anemone . with the purple tang (they get large) i don't know how well the tank would handle the bio load of a large anemone . i enjoy a simple setup , dont want sumps and all the other stuff required to support a large bio-load .
tigerarmy40
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any new pics of him in the tank?
Looks like he figured it out!
ricordiaking
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lovely pics
JER-Z
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I agree it would be interesting to see how it turns out but I don't think it's happening now...The Picassos havn't been able to get near him ever since he claimed the anemone as his turf.
you snooze you lose I guess...the RBTA was picked up w/ hopes that the Picassos would move in. No luck, I don't think they will miss it.
Do you envision size difference between nigs and gasters? :eek2:marc price
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looks good i hope you'r bta stays as nice as it looks in the pic. mine would grow to 18" before spliting and was very hard on the sps . the coolist rbta i ever saw was in a display tank at that fish place . it was about the size and shape as the one you have only all a transparentish bleached out white with fuchsia colouring 3/4 of the total L. of it's slightly bulbous tip tenticles . the staff said it started out orange and changed colour months before i was there . it was under halides , dont know if that had anything to do with it ( i thought it had bleached ) . haven't been there in at least a year so i dont know what it's like now .
marc price
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yes , marina p . the chrysogasters grow to clarki proportions (13cm) actually the females get larger at 15cm , well nigrips max at 11cm but usually more like 8-9cm .
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