Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
i havent either, but ive been looking. if youve seen some at a local retailer, let me know!
Seen any nigripes lately?
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MarinaP
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Coming to a retailer near you, J (hopefully)
http://www.sustainableaquatics.com/ix_index.php?pageId=12
http://www.sustainableaquatics.com/ix_index.php?pageId=12
badguitarist
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Jordan its Kyle from Speaker Rhodes, have you talked to Colt lately? he just got a pair that is doing really awesome, I saw them the other day!
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
ah, thanks for the heads up marina. i certainly got a bit excited seeing that many captive bred black foots...ill try to get in touch with them tomorrow.
hey kyle, i did get to see some pictures of colts. they look great and i hope they do well for him. he definitely is partially responsible for reinvesting me in finding some for myself.
hey kyle, i did get to see some pictures of colts. they look great and i hope they do well for him. he definitely is partially responsible for reinvesting me in finding some for myself.
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
well, after some phone calls....ill have a handful of them arriving tomorrow.
thanks to marina and sustainable aquatics!
thanks to marina and sustainable aquatics!
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
if they can impress my local fish store, im sure ordering from them again wont be a problem and find a way to get some to you. from the one picture off their site, im excited about the bright orange color and hope they have normal rounded facial features...
tomorrow ill let everyone know.
tomorrow ill let everyone know.
Pinkskunk
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can you please shed some light into this? did you call one of your LFS to order the Nigripes from SA for you? or you call SA yourself directly? in that case, you are a dealer?
I have been calling every reputable LFS here in Boston to bring me some. Only one was able to bring in, but both died. I am almost give up trying. Bluezooaquatics have a few, but i am very hesitant to take a risk, i would prefer tank breed Nigripes.........
I have been calling every reputable LFS here in Boston to bring me some. Only one was able to bring in, but both died. I am almost give up trying. Bluezooaquatics have a few, but i am very hesitant to take a risk, i would prefer tank breed Nigripes.........
Pffft, drop buy here and pick up Mr. Cujo next time you are in the neighborhood ;>)If they live, I'll take 2 off your hands
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
pinkskunk, after visiting the SA site, i had a local store contact them and found out they did have some captive nigripes available. they also had some captive bred latz, although im not sure of their availability.
i tried several nigripes through other mail order sites over the years and was only successful when i stumbled across two actual retail stores that had had some in captivity for long periods of time. the fact that SA now has captive bred specimens is extremely encouraging and i expect far less problems acclimating them.
have a local store near you contact SA and see what they can do. they wont be interested in shipping just a pair, but maybe your store needs a bunch of other captive bred fish you can piggy back on....
i tried several nigripes through other mail order sites over the years and was only successful when i stumbled across two actual retail stores that had had some in captivity for long periods of time. the fact that SA now has captive bred specimens is extremely encouraging and i expect far less problems acclimating them.
have a local store near you contact SA and see what they can do. they wont be interested in shipping just a pair, but maybe your store needs a bunch of other captive bred fish you can piggy back on....
MarinaP
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Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
they arrived today, and the suspense was terrible. they looked great in the bag, got a thirty minute acclimation back at home and once released went immediately for my magnificas. only to find themselves being stuck to the tentacles.
so now they hover close to the sand and follow my face in unison when looking at them. they arent as orange as i anticipated, but im confident they will survive. they appear to be very healthy. now i just wait for them to adjust, find the anemones again...and im set.
my local shop also brought in some perculas, occellaris and black occellaris from sustainable aquatics, they all looked very good. the blacks were solid black, even at their small size.
the three day brook timer has been set, but i doubt i will see any problems by the time it goes off.
so now they hover close to the sand and follow my face in unison when looking at them. they arent as orange as i anticipated, but im confident they will survive. they appear to be very healthy. now i just wait for them to adjust, find the anemones again...and im set.
my local shop also brought in some perculas, occellaris and black occellaris from sustainable aquatics, they all looked very good. the blacks were solid black, even at their small size.
the three day brook timer has been set, but i doubt i will see any problems by the time it goes off.
Pacific Reefs
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Love nigripes!!!
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
Well, it didnt turn out as well as I had hoped. they passed the dreaded three day mark effortlessly though. they were healthy and wonderful so i certainly give my appreciation to sustainable aquatics.
The group of nigripes stayed tolerant of each other for several days. They naturally broke off into little pairs during the night. Some slept in a large scolymia. some under the powerheads. and some stuck to the undersides of my magnificas. they would recollect during the day. very shy. they would never enter the tentacles of the magnificas, only hide underneath them. over the course of the two weeks i had them, they never seemed to develop an immunity to the sting of their tentacles interestingly enough.
but one was slightly larger than the rest, and once she figured that out....she was relentless. just a continuous attack on the other four nigripes. it persisted day after day. all five of them were constantly breathing heavily in a way that would signal brook, but they never lost their appetite. it was just exhaustion at being chased and harassed all day long by that one ever so slightly larger clown.
eventually i decided to catch them all and separate them. i had them in a 29 gallon, separated into pairs. just in case, i added a bit of copper to their water and within 12 hours all five were dead. i was shocked.
coincidentally, a friend of mine also purchased five SA nigripes and added them to his existing wild caught pair. (his existing pair had come from a store that had had them for months and were well acclimated and healthy.) his wild caught female also was completely intolerant of the others. and while his tank is larger, also contains several magnificas and all the captive raised ones were eating and doing fine in spite of the incessant female....all five of his died simultaneously a day after mine.
it was like all ten of our fish had a death switch inside them that somehow was activated. bizarre.
so the lessons learned from this:
nigripes do not form groups in aquariums. this may sound absolutely obvious, especially to people who have had nigripes and know how aggressive they can be. but with five fish all starting as captive raised juveniles, one would think there could be a possibility a hierarchy would form especially with large anemones available to them. this was not the case. pictures often show very dense populations of nigripes over one anemone. apparently five captive raised juveniles is not the magic number in attempting to recreate this.
existing nigripe pairs will not accept additional juveniles. there was hopes they would be tolerated in a large aquarium with large anemones available. but this was not the case. completely unaccepted.
so all together it was a very humbling experience for my friend and i. the quality of SAs fish was great, and i will hopefully get some more nigripes from them. but this time....only two.
The group of nigripes stayed tolerant of each other for several days. They naturally broke off into little pairs during the night. Some slept in a large scolymia. some under the powerheads. and some stuck to the undersides of my magnificas. they would recollect during the day. very shy. they would never enter the tentacles of the magnificas, only hide underneath them. over the course of the two weeks i had them, they never seemed to develop an immunity to the sting of their tentacles interestingly enough.
but one was slightly larger than the rest, and once she figured that out....she was relentless. just a continuous attack on the other four nigripes. it persisted day after day. all five of them were constantly breathing heavily in a way that would signal brook, but they never lost their appetite. it was just exhaustion at being chased and harassed all day long by that one ever so slightly larger clown.
eventually i decided to catch them all and separate them. i had them in a 29 gallon, separated into pairs. just in case, i added a bit of copper to their water and within 12 hours all five were dead. i was shocked.
coincidentally, a friend of mine also purchased five SA nigripes and added them to his existing wild caught pair. (his existing pair had come from a store that had had them for months and were well acclimated and healthy.) his wild caught female also was completely intolerant of the others. and while his tank is larger, also contains several magnificas and all the captive raised ones were eating and doing fine in spite of the incessant female....all five of his died simultaneously a day after mine.
it was like all ten of our fish had a death switch inside them that somehow was activated. bizarre.
so the lessons learned from this:
nigripes do not form groups in aquariums. this may sound absolutely obvious, especially to people who have had nigripes and know how aggressive they can be. but with five fish all starting as captive raised juveniles, one would think there could be a possibility a hierarchy would form especially with large anemones available to them. this was not the case. pictures often show very dense populations of nigripes over one anemone. apparently five captive raised juveniles is not the magic number in attempting to recreate this.
existing nigripe pairs will not accept additional juveniles. there was hopes they would be tolerated in a large aquarium with large anemones available. but this was not the case. completely unaccepted.
so all together it was a very humbling experience for my friend and i. the quality of SAs fish was great, and i will hopefully get some more nigripes from them. but this time....only two.
David Thomson
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Yes, the females are TERRORS! My female took on a very large cinnamon clown female (5 inches) and won!
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