My New Picasso Clownfish

[1geo]

Yesterday my two Picasso Clownfish arrived from Doni's Reef. I bought the "B" set and one is pictured below. When Doni said they were small she meant small with a capital S. Fortunately I had a QT tank set up with foam on all intakes and plastic pipes in the bottom to hide in. When they arrived I poured both bags into a common acclamation vessel; that was a mistake. From the moment the two get together they started fighting. And they continued to fight for 45 minutes. By this time the weaker of the two was laying on the bottom of the vessel and barely moving while the stronger was still attacking. At this point, I stopped the acclamation and put the weaker one in the QT 10 gal tank. It sunk right to the bottom and barely moved, still it was in a swimming posture so that was encouraging. I put the second one in with reservations but to my surprise it just began swimming around the tank and ignored his fellow tank mate. After an hour, I gave them a little food which both readily consumed. After eating, both were swimming together exploring the tank as if they had never had a bad word. They have not shown any aggression since. The below Picasso has superb markings and this is only a "B", I can imagine what an "A" looks like.

 

[adtravels]

sweet

 

[melanotaenia]

is that just the image or does the fish have ich?

 

[euromomtx]

It looks like it's smiling

 

[ILLiDaN]

more pics , i am soon getting mine hopefully

 

[seattleguy]

This will be a stunning clown as it matures. Let's see a pic of the new pair.

 

[1geo]

Second Half of Set

Second Half of Set

My photography is not the best and I couldn't get the two together but here is a photo of the second of my Set "B" Picassos. Again the markings are fantastic. The specks in the photos are only in the photos not on the fish.

 

[Gator Pit]

I agree, fantastic markings. Were you able to see them before you purchased, or did you take your chances.

 

[melanotaenia]

those look better than some of the Grade A varieties; nice grab, they will look great when the black fills in.

 

[1geo]

On Doni's Reef web site they list the sets in each grade that are available. For example, Grade B set 4 which is what I bought. You can click on the link to this set and you will see a 10 sec movie of the fish for sale. So there is no guess work, you know exactly what you are getting. My only problem is these are truly small fry. My experience with raising juveniles to adulthood is the mortality rate is a lot higher then simply keeping adults happy and healthy. In that sense you are gambling that they live to full term.