New Percula Babies

[Zoom]

I saw some Babies B/W Perculas about 5 weeks a go they was so cute and friendly, i when home to think about it.
The LFS had them now in quarantine for five weeks they are tank bread i was going to get them but i need to get my ten years old Percula out off the tank till the babies get a little bigger it was easy to get the big boy to refuge that night .
I come home the next day with six Perculas four B/W and two Orange ones and a empty wallet . They are so small is going to take a year before the old Boy goes back to the big tank again .
Here is some pictures today they are now in the tank for about a week no problems at all ...I love tank bread fish .It was so hard to take a good pictures of the fish the Tunzes was blowing them around so much even at half the power.

 

[shiggs]

those are really nice.

good find enjoy those clowns those are soo awsome that jet black is tooo cool.

 

[kimsie]

Beautiful!!!!!

 

[Patrick12]

Nice tank too.

 

[Zoom]

Big boy

Big boy

Here is my ten years old about 3"+ long and fat Percula.
I think he will kill the babies if i let him in the tank with them . Even so the tank is seven feet long i can not take that change yet but he like the refuge so far.

 

[sneeze]

Re: Big boy

Re: Big boy

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11908761#post11908761 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Zoom
Here is my ten years old about 3"+ long and fat Percula.
I think he will kill the babies if i let him in the tank with them . Even so the tank is seven feet long i can not take that change yet but he like the refuge so far.

not to undermine pet names, but. . .

your large clown is likely made the sex change to female if it is over ten years old.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

FWIW all of those clowns are A. ocellaris.

 

[Mojo Jojo]

Nice photo skills

 

[joeyg4583]

If you leave the female in the refugium the most dominate juvenile will become the female and when you put the current female back in they will likely kill each other. I am new and could be wrong but this is the way I understand it. I would either try a) putting the babies in a critter keeper with holes drilled inside the tank for the female to get used to them while they are protected or b) finding the current female another home. I hope everything goes well for you. They are all beautiful!

 

[Jovreefer]

I dont think those black & whites you have are "babies" or even Juvi's. They usually take around 2 years to become jet black without an orange face...

 

[Zoom]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11912014#post11912014 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jovreefer
I dont think those black & whites you have are "babies" or even Juvi's. They usually take around 2 years to become jet black without an orange face...

Two of them have some orange in to them .
They are so small about 3/4 " they tank bread them now with almost jet black coloration with only the nose been orange, even when they babies, but you never know what the breeder feeds them to get them jet black like this.
I did pick the ones that they had more black color than the others.
Most of them are orange / black the only two i got are completely Jet black took a little time to get to them they are so fast but i did it.
The other two I have are more orange/ black mix.


joeyg4583
I hear you I have to wait for a month so the small ones get use to the tank an then I was going to put my big boy /girl in the tank in a small critter keeper for a week and then I make up my mind to just put the old one in the tank or to a different tank will see.

 

[bwest]

What kind of leather is that? The green polyped one?

Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question

 

[Zoom]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11912980#post11912980 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bwest
What kind of leather is that? The green polyped one?

Hmm, maybe I just answered my own question

ORA.... green polyps leather from DFS ...LiveAquaria.
About a year old.
.http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=2320
The one on the right hand side is nice also but it closed up when i took the picture but open back up after an hour
Here is a picture of the one is closed up on the picture that one is also ora large polyped leather .

 

[bwest]

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated!

 

[garygb]

Zoom, those aren't perculas. Those are ocellaris. Maybe someone else already pointed this out, but I didn't read all the posts.

 

[GSMguy]

Definitely all ocellaris

 

[Zoom]

Ok they are knowing to be .....amphipion ocellaris ...aka ...common clown ...aka.. percula clown..
There has been debate on whether there is a similar,but distinct species called A. percula .
In fact, this is a very colour-variable fish as you see and the two fish are very probable one and the same species but they are cool.:smokin: :smokin:

 

[LobsterMan]

I love your tank and those little clowns I like the blacks the best. Nice going.

 

[garygb]

common name, false percula.

 

[kindafun]

Nice looking fish, great looking tank. Wow, a 14 year old tank, it really does look great.