embryo - at this time I am not even positive they are male/female.. here is the whole story:
the weekend after thatfishplace's annual sale I stopped by, actually looking fo a few true percs, in each of their invert tanks they had a GSM - I LOVE GSM so i had to have a pair, I knew the risks of keeping them singularly, but they could not have been there more than a week (almost everything was new since the annual sale, and i had been there and they were not in those tanks...) so i figured the chances of them having turned female were minimal. picked these two up (best/most interesting looking two) brought them home, acclimated them - the misbarred one started hounding the other one (the misbar is named coral, the other sharkbait, for future reference - the wife is a nemo fan
makes it easy to spend money on the tank "you know, like in nemo") nipping at it's fin a lot - based upon this we determined coral was likely a female, and sharkbait a male (hence the names) for his own saftey, i put sharkbait in a breeder net in the tank for a few days for his own saftey, until she seemed to caml down and settle in, she still nipped at him occasionally after we released him, but not excessively. fast forward to sunday when that picture was taken - what you see is him doing the "submissive" shimmy for her, first time i'd seen him do it, and she seems to be much more tolerant of him recently.
so, here's to hoping for the future, maybe they will breed someday.
this of course raises a quetion - i haven't read a lot on clown breeding, as i know it's not in my immediate future, but will they breed without a host anemone? I have the TBS package, so I have a condy, but i know that this is nt commonly a host anemone... I would like a BTA someday, but i know that our tank is not mature enough yet, and fear that it may be too small anyway for both to live happily. I did see her in one of our xenia once, but have not since.
