About 6 or 8 months ago I purchased a couple of nice onyx clowns with the intention of breeding them. I figured I would just put them in my main display until they started to lay eggs. There is a big RBTA in my main tank so I thought that would be a happy home for them while they matured a bit. Well over time they have both lost just about all the black that they had. Not sure if it is fact or fiction, but I have heard that RBTA anemones can negatively affect the color of clowns. I had also heard that a Sebae can enhance the color of clowns. Once again I am not sure if any of this is true, I was kinda looking to this forum for verification. I believe that Sebae's can be like a light tan color, or purple. Problem is that lots of places dye the light tan ones yellow, and they are doomed to die because of that, and from my experience the purple ones are just about impossible to find anywhere.
RBTA affecting color of onyx percs?
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BTAs can cause Perc's onyx to fade but they can recover their onyx if the BTA is removed. Im sorry but i have no experiance with Sebaes so i dont have any input for that.If you are set on useing a nem you could try a nice carpet if your tank is big enough, if not other alternatives can be used as hosts like leather corals. IMO leather corals seem to be the best non anemone host for clolwns, although you could use frogspawns, hammerheads, ricordia and plenty of other soft corals also
Toddrtrex
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Thanks.
here is the thread that he mentioned
I do need to update that thread, haven't taken any new pictures in a while, but they are still getting more black back, albeit fairly slowly.
Hey, thanks for that link. That is exactly what happened to my clowns, they are fat as pigs, and healthy. They just lost their black. They had a very cool, tri-colored look when I got them, now they just seem like a "dirty orange" color. They are fed great food (spectrum and rods) and kept under halides, so the only thing I could think it would be is the RBTA. I had no idea an anemone could do that to my Onyx's. I have a 24 gallon Nano-cube that has a few softies and some polyps in it. I don't think they will like it as much as they love their anemone, but I am sure they'll get over it.
