Pairing coral beauties ???

Bax said:
Marie

Those pics are helpful and give me confidence I, we, will be OK! :D

Here are a couple more bad pics of the new CB in QT.

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Your description of more compact is what I'm catching as good! The cheek spike are so tiny too!
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The very best of luck to you. I wish there were some definite answer. Your fish looks a bit more elongated to me in your second pic than the one in that pair, but you're looking at the real fish. And that doesn't mean it's not a female anyway as the females don't stay round like that.
 
The male will chase at her as a dominance display. They will always do that. But if she's female, her territory won't be limited by him and she won't wind up cowering somewhere. And - it's hard to describe - she'll be perky and confident, not stressed/scared looking.
 
Angel*Fish said:
The very best of luck to you. I wish there were some definite answer. Your fish looks a bit more elongated to me in your second pic than the one in that pair, but you're looking at the real fish. And that doesn't mean it's not a female anyway as the females don't stay round like that.
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That's the only thing worrying me a bit, the new CB is ever so slightly elongated. In fact some of this "growth" may very well have occured in QT.

"She's" not 1.25" closer to 2", but over all more slender than my robust established CB. "Her" eyes are proportionately big as well. Then there are those stubby little cheek spikes. I'm riding that for all it's worth! :fish2:
 
flameangel88 said:
My guess is a female and a deep water specimen.

btw--is it from LA DD?
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No, I got him or her from my LFS. I was just curious of the sex. Always thought of it as a young male. Don't know why.
It was one of my first marine fish several rears ago . Had it for a couple of years and lost it in a carpet surfing incident. I always thought it was a nice specimen.
 
I've kept 2 CB (both male) in different tanks and both were aggressive.

First one (3") was introduced in a 180g with established flame angel trio and lemonpeel pair. The CB would chase both the larger & smaller lemonpeels and chase the 2 female flames but gets chased by the male flame. The good thing is he wasn't so bad with new additions including centropyge. The CB is no longer in this tank.

The second one (3") was one of the first angel in and doesn't tolerate other angels especially smaller ones. The new juvie flagfin got chased for a long time and even the flagfin out grew him he still likes to flex his muscle once in a while. Takes a good couple of weeks before leaving new wrasses alone.

Good luck with your pair!
 
flameangel88

I'm encouraged by your classifying kingfisher62's fish as a female. My new individual is less elongated then the one in his photo.

My established CB has haranged almost every new addition to every tank it has been in. But it general stops after 2-3 days and really allways seems like just somthing for the CB to do and not a real physical threat. The only exception to that was the ebili tang I mentioned earlier. As I said .... Bad choice!
 
Any update? :)
I'll confess that whenever I found a fish I knew was a female, I didn't quarantine for fear things might change. I did worm them though. I have made pairs for other people in a quarantine tank and that's how I would do it again. I'm just waiting for a female and when I find one, I'll grab a male and QT them together.
 
Yes, CBs have been bred and fry raised from them, several other centropyge, several have claimed to but no proof. Maybe a dozen did, less then half a dozen commercially.
 
I was in my office for a while today and almost released "her" but I chickened out. I think I'll stick to doing it Monday evening when I can turn the lights out.
 
Chicken. :)

Good luck with the pairing and keep us updated. Now you got me to thinking and I may look at doing the same. At least I've got a bigger tank so they would have some room if I goofed it up and got tow of the same.

As for the bellus, your right, that was my female. Sorry, it's been a while since I had them. They passed on in a power outage along with about 10 other fish. Here's the only pic I have of the male.

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Bax, a little eye candy for you. the gold flake and Moorish Idol I ha dbefore the outage. Keep your eye out as you can find a goldflake sometimes for a decent price. I did.

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Just a thought - if there's anyway to create a small enough whole in the acclimation container that the new fish can swim into for safety, but the bigger fish can't squeeze through, it could solve the probably of having to catch it if there's a problem. Of course how you explain the whole thing to the fish is another story. Maybe if he uses it to swim out for the first time?

Just thinking out loud. And then posting it :lmao: Good luck tonight. And fwiw a fish cowering at a top corner of the tank is often easy to net or cup out with a container. Eggcrate can be used to partition the tank where possible.
 
Pretty much, once released, a fish is in the display. I don't really have a set up that allows for seggregation witin the display. The good news is, I released the new CB without major insident about 2 ago, maybe a little longer.

The extablished CB's first concern was, where did the container go?

I did place the 1 1/4" PVC Tee from the jug in the display for a familiar hiding spot. "she" hasn't looked back at it, but "he" seemed to search in it for "her".

The new CB had scooted right into the rocks. And "he" went about his buisness after the where's the jug and the is "she" in here moments had pased and "he" was on to his usually buzzing around the tank.

Finally, after nearly 40 minutes or so, "she" pops out of the rock work and ends up right in front of "him" in mid-cross tank dash. "He" pulls up short, and very delicately circled around "her" about three times comming to a halt perfectly perpendicular to "her". "He" just sort of bobbed back and forth for a moment. Then, with a flick of "her" tail, "she" was gone, and I havn't seen her since!

But, the import thing is "he" doesn't seem too interested at all in killing "her" any time soon! All in all, a great first meeting! :D
 
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