New clown added, instant pair...

[jscarlata]

I added my new Onyx Picasso clown today. I initially put him in a floating acclimation tank and no one bothered him, even my existing female
Picasso ignored him. He went in, swam around for a few minutes and then bee-lined it for the nem. The big girl welcomed the little guy an they paired up pretty quickly.





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[G4546]

Congrats! That sure is a beautiful 'home' as well clowns!

 

[jscarlata]

Thanks!

 

[OrionN]

Nice clowns and nice anemone. Can you post a picture of the Gigantea under full light?

 

[jscarlata]

Orion:
Sure, ill get a new pic tonight and post it... lighting and my iPhone don;t mix but ill see what i can do the color never comes out right, its a brown with greenish tentacles, verucau and under side are purplish and blue

 

[jscarlata]

This is a pic from a few weeks ago..it opens quite a bit more nowadays.



I'm still
Playing around with different tunze configurations, so far i can't seem to get great flow on it. I have 3 6055's on a 7096 controller in sequential random flow setting. I have 2 on the right side pointing across the tank at all my sps and the nem. The 3rd is on the left side, upper front corner pointing almost straight back at the rocks with my sps, but downward towards the nem.
It's a 90g, do 48x18x?20?
If anyone has placement and/or tunze programming advice for great flow I welcome the input...

 

[Seagars]

what kind of nem is that? i need one of those!!!

 

[jscarlata]

S. gigantea..took me +- 6 months of shopping, looking at specimens, talking to vendors...
need to find one that is local that you can watch for a while or see it when the vendor gets it...the LFS by me dont put them under near ly enough light or have enough flow for them, so they quickly decline in the store's tanks, so if you arent there the day they unpack em, your chances of getting one before it starts to die are slim. this one i watched in an lfs' tank where i work for a few weeks befor ei got it, they had it under 1/2 the T5's i have and very good flow. im about 2.5 months in with it, and so far it seems to be doing very well. Im not sure if its any kind of sign of the nems health when the flow lifts it up off the sand and folds it up or if thats normal...my son asked me somethign similiar, do they get stronger? do nems develop strength to stay planted and open under strong current?
maybe this one just downt like crazy strong flow?

 

[EllieSuz]

That's the first time I've read about love at first sight with a clown pair. Very cool.

 

[OrionN]

what kind of nem is that? i need one of those!!!

It is a very beautiful anemone, but Gigantea is one of the most difficult anemone to keep. It is a very poor shipper and most gigantea got to the LFS are doomed to died from infection. Once you get a survivable gigantea, it required very high light and circulation. It is the most demanding of the host anemone in term of light and circulation, plus great, stable water condition. I have heard that once established, it can be a little more forgiving.
It is truly an anemone for experts only IMO

 

[BigBarnacles]

That's the first time I've read about love at first sight with a clown pair. Very cool.

I have a black and white true percula that I added to my aquarium as the first fish about two weeks ago. A week later I added an orange, black and white true percula. The second I finished acclimating and put him into the aquarium he met the other clown half way across the tank and they have been inseparable ever since. Love at first sight.

 

[God.]

Congrats on the new pair!

With my gig it stayed in the sand like yours then one day plowed to the top center for more light..I wonder if yours will? As for strength... I would think so. Building muscle over time

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[reefer999]

Congrats on the new pair, and nice anemone

 

[jscarlata]

thanks everyone...its so cool to have this in my basement...wish my wife would allow a tank upstairs, but its no real biggie, its a messy hobby, to have to do maintenance AND be careful of the floor, walls etc would make water changes suck that much more...i diont know how you guys with carpets near your tanks do it...
i just finished plumbing my water change system to the tank and its a huge help to not have to drag 32g brutes any more. i also did a huge cleaning this week, one dayu i did a thorough sand vacuum in some hard to reach areas and yestyerday i cleaned all the sand out of my fuge, holy nasty water batman, that $hit was rank...so im hoping i will have nice rewards from my coral after all the cleaning...

The female clown ive had about a year, and since she found the anemone a few wekes ago she nopt only got bigger, but she got meaner, i cant put my hand in the tank anymore, she comes for me no matter where i am, it takes seconds, as soon as she sees me she starts going for me...she attaks at will. I thought for sure she would attack the little clown, but she took to him right away...they even slept in the nem together

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I good looking pair of clowns,they have a nice home also.

 

[Apercula]

That's the first time I've read about love at first sight with a clown pair. Very cool.

My female percula has accepted a male at first sight twice. The first male was a wild caught PNG percula, and the second a captive raised picasso. Both times when I released the male they swam to each other and he turned to be beside her and they swam off together. Both times it was a 1 inch or slightly larger male being added to a 3 inch plus female, so there was no threat to her dominance.

 

[jscarlata]

So far so good..they seem to be getting along very well, they both sleep in the nem every night. They are both eating like pigs too, the bug clown was never a big eater, but recently she's been getting fat at every feeding.


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