New 'Cassos already hosting! *pic intense

[jmadison]

Finally recieved my A's yesterday midday after 3 months wait! Kept them in a breeder net with no lights all day yesterday, and then first 4 hours of photoperiod in the breeder net today. I had a tiny tiny clay pot for them to hide in yest and this morning, and placed that clay pot next to my anemone column just prior to their release. I released them in that corner of the tank and they went right for the 'nems!
Blah blah blah, here are the pics!

 

[jmadison]

 

[demonboy369]

beautiful... im about to be getting me a couple picassos,

 

[SlukBunWalla]

I'll bet your heart just about skipped a beat when you saw them hosting. Good looking pair...give em a few years and that will be AWESOME!

 

[buy_baff]

How much did they cost you?

 

[jmadison]

Adam- Indeed it was pretty much instantaneous! I just smiled realy big to myself

Bill- Honestly I don't know, Ive been bringing in frags to work for credit, and Mike just kept track of where I was at with that. I used it to buy an ORA coral a while back and that threw off my calculations so I dont know how much credit i had. I know i was over by 4 bucks

 

[jmadison]

I think my sixline may need a relocation job or a time out in the breeder net. I just need to catch the little SOB.... :rolleye1:

 

[leeweber85]

Those are awesome, it looks like they have some nice white shapes developing. Which store is it that you work for?

 

[toastedxb]

those look really nice!!!!

 

[jmadison]

Thanks! I think the larger of the two is still developing a bit of the white yet, and I work at petland. We carry ORA.

 

[Creetin]

Very nice! Congrats on the hosting! Now that the hard part is done you can enjoy them.
As for the sixline i would get him out. I will have to remove mine too.

 

[jmadison]

So after the first day or two of the sixline trying to check the clowns, all seems well! Everyone is playing nicely and doing well. Ive fed them mysis, brine, formula 1, cyclops, hakiri Marine S(basically a quality ver. of ORAGLO). In most cases I have also tried them with garlic extreme added too. The(what i presume as going to be) male is experimenting with eating it all, but the female isnt quite as broad pallet'd. She eats cyclops and sometimes the Marine S. They still look plump and healthy, and are very active! They have gotten a few swollen lumps(stings) from the nems but they seem to be reducing just fine. Im keeping up on waterchanges and running a uv sterilizer in hopes of keeping the water as prestine as possible.

 

[Creetin]

Glad they are doing well for you!!
I didnt have much luck with mine. Well no luck actually. Looks like you got a head start, and your fish are 2 times the size mine were. My sixline dwarfed them.
Maybe some tiggerpods and some articpods would be more choices for them to eat. My last pair loved tiggerpods. Expensive food though, but it did fatten them up and got them to more cost effective foods. Gutloading brineshrimp in selcon would be good too. All my fish love that.

 

[drtrash]

Any issue with picasso changing color or pattern because of RBTA? I have seen change in the level of black in onyx but not sure of a change in white.

 

[jmadison]

Its only been a week, but IMO one of my clowns white isnt done developing( still looks like its growing), but they havent got much black yet. Ive never seen any of the white going away, only the black(this being in others experiences that is). So we'll see but I am thinking that there wont be any issues.

 

[OrionN]

Sometime BTA or H. magnifica will prevent A. percula form black color development. More problem with BTA than magnifica

 

[TROYREEFER]

The only thing better then a pair of picasso clowns is..A Pair of picasso clowns in a RBTA.

 

[jmadison]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15036977#post15036977 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TROYREEFER
The only thing better then a pair of picasso clowns is..A Pair of picasso clowns in a RBTA.

I was hoping that it eventually happen, but they headed right for it !!!

Now for the task of getting them to consistantly eat my various offerings...

 

[jmadison]

Sixline=GONE!

We'll see if this makes it less hectic for the clowns to feed!

 

[jmadison]

Well the one with the puzzle piece on his side eats like a pig, sadly the other one had no such apeitite... and was found dead in the tank yesterday evening . Back on the list of a replacement I guess. I think that the initial stress put on that particular fish, especially during feeding, by the 6line was just too much. She always seemed nervous to feed, like wheres the wrasse gonna be coming from to attack me. owell, tis reefing!

-1 vote for 6 lines