Peter Schmiedel
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Hi!
Finally I could convince my girlfriend that a fish is always the perfect present for a fish obsessed person like myself
Luckly my wholesaler had a adult pair on stock. The female is about 11 cm TL and the male about 8 cm TL. But unfortunatley they had only this damn colored H. crispa
- but as I had no big anemon free I needed to take one. I normally do not support sales of unnatural cross breeding or coloration of corals.
These fish are the weirdest anemonfish I have ever seen. They spend a lot of time in the caves of their tank, or are swimming far away of the anemon. Only in the night they are deep hidden in the H. crispa.
I have them now about a week and they are in a tank 120x40x40 cm, To give them a safe feeling the tank has 8 A. leptachantus and 4 baby C. argi to swim around.
It is remarkable how high these anemon fish can jump, while catching them I was really surprise about the flying anemon fishes!
Attached observations from Rudie Kuiter whom I asked to shade some light on the unusal behavior pattern of this fish:
Hi Peter,
In the late seventees, I often joined a friend of mine who collected marinefish for the shop he worked at. When we went up north from Sydney there were a couple of places where latezonatus occurred and we would collect one pair at the time, eventhough there were lots. Regarding the latezonatus, I did not take notice of the anemones and we did not attempt to collects them. The fish was unusual in behaviour and unlike other anemone fishes, they were difficult to catch and not staying with the anemone. They were often swimming high above the reef and in one place, North Stradbroke Island, anemones were scarce and some individuals did not associate with them at all. In NSW (Solitary Islands) the water gets cold when current run from the south, probably reaching 15°C or even less, but I don’t know how it would effect them. Some fish would hide I suppose as it slows them down and become more vunerable. They obviously can handle these conditions for a certain period.
They are also the species that is the deepest where anemones dwell. Where you get different anemonefishes together, such as akindynos, the latter would be in the shallower anemones and latezonatus deeper, usually around the 20 m depth.
Would be nice if you can breed them. Good luck with this
With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Rudie [/COLOR=blue]
Finally I could convince my girlfriend that a fish is always the perfect present for a fish obsessed person like myself
Luckly my wholesaler had a adult pair on stock. The female is about 11 cm TL and the male about 8 cm TL. But unfortunatley they had only this damn colored H. crispa
- but as I had no big anemon free I needed to take one. I normally do not support sales of unnatural cross breeding or coloration of corals.
These fish are the weirdest anemonfish I have ever seen. They spend a lot of time in the caves of their tank, or are swimming far away of the anemon. Only in the night they are deep hidden in the H. crispa.
I have them now about a week and they are in a tank 120x40x40 cm, To give them a safe feeling the tank has 8 A. leptachantus and 4 baby C. argi to swim around.
It is remarkable how high these anemon fish can jump, while catching them I was really surprise about the flying anemon fishes!
Attached observations from Rudie Kuiter whom I asked to shade some light on the unusal behavior pattern of this fish:
Hi Peter,
In the late seventees, I often joined a friend of mine who collected marinefish for the shop he worked at. When we went up north from Sydney there were a couple of places where latezonatus occurred and we would collect one pair at the time, eventhough there were lots. Regarding the latezonatus, I did not take notice of the anemones and we did not attempt to collects them. The fish was unusual in behaviour and unlike other anemone fishes, they were difficult to catch and not staying with the anemone. They were often swimming high above the reef and in one place, North Stradbroke Island, anemones were scarce and some individuals did not associate with them at all. In NSW (Solitary Islands) the water gets cold when current run from the south, probably reaching 15°C or even less, but I don’t know how it would effect them. Some fish would hide I suppose as it slows them down and become more vunerable. They obviously can handle these conditions for a certain period.
They are also the species that is the deepest where anemones dwell. Where you get different anemonefishes together, such as akindynos, the latter would be in the shallower anemones and latezonatus deeper, usually around the 20 m depth.
Would be nice if you can breed them. Good luck with this
With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Rudie [/COLOR=blue]
