ThRoewer
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I thought to start a thread about these as I have and have had quite a few of them. All were wild caught.
This were two of my Solomon percula pairs back in Germany. They were some of the first Solomon percula to arrive in Germany in the late 90s.
In the following my current pairs.
A. percula pair 1
I have no accord to where these came from - nobody at the store knew - but from the color pattern they are either from the Solomon Islands or Papua.
These are the guys responsible for me getting back into reefing after a 10 year break.
They had been sitting in the coral tanks of Neptune Aquatics for several months and nobody took them. So the day before Thanksgiving 2014 I got them and decided to set up a new reef tank (in that order).
When I finally picked them up 3 weeks later they came with a nice Cryptocaryon infection that allowed me to practice my disease management skills.
They are the weirdest clowns I ever had and crazy picky eaters.
They also seem to be extremely picky about their anemone. So far I tried a BTA and a H. crispa but they ignored them both and rather settled in a ceramic flowerpot. My last offering to them will be my new S. gigantea, which I think is what they wanted all along.
BTW: the male has now colored up and is as black as the (potential) female
A. percula pair 2
These are confirmed Solomon Island percula. I picked them up at Aquarium Concepts in Dublin last Saturday. They had been at the store for a week and the original male to the female was in a rough shape (either brook, velvet or a serious bacterial infection) and she chased him away all the time. So I rather took the healthy looking male in the next compartment and he was clearly a good choice as I have no problems at all with him.
Both got dipped for 45 minutes in a formalin solution of 10 drops (~0.3 ml) of fishvet Formalin MS in 2 quarts of saltwater.
After the female started breathing rapidly and started scratching I gave a dose of CP to the tank. I also added PraziPro because she had stringy poo and all the other signs of intestinal parasites. The downside of this treatment is that all fish in the tank, with the exception of the little guy and the marine betta, stopped eating.
This was them last night.
The male is tiny compared to the roughly 3 inch female and I suspect that he will color up like Pair 1.
Yesterday I picked these guys out of a direct Solomon shipment that arrived Wednesday night at Baja Reef in Union City:
I dipped them in formalin like the previous pair.
A. percula pair 3
These guys will likely color up like Pair 1 when they grow up. So far they haven't been the best eaters, even with live tigger pods.
A. percula pair 4
I took these because of the coloring. The little one was pretty beat up but the only other one with this color scheme so I decided to give him a chance. But because he was so beat up I got a good deal on him.
This is them today, stuffed up with tigger pods:
This were two of my Solomon percula pairs back in Germany. They were some of the first Solomon percula to arrive in Germany in the late 90s.
In the following my current pairs.
A. percula pair 1
I have no accord to where these came from - nobody at the store knew - but from the color pattern they are either from the Solomon Islands or Papua.
These are the guys responsible for me getting back into reefing after a 10 year break.
They had been sitting in the coral tanks of Neptune Aquatics for several months and nobody took them. So the day before Thanksgiving 2014 I got them and decided to set up a new reef tank (in that order).
When I finally picked them up 3 weeks later they came with a nice Cryptocaryon infection that allowed me to practice my disease management skills.
They are the weirdest clowns I ever had and crazy picky eaters.
They also seem to be extremely picky about their anemone. So far I tried a BTA and a H. crispa but they ignored them both and rather settled in a ceramic flowerpot. My last offering to them will be my new S. gigantea, which I think is what they wanted all along.
BTW: the male has now colored up and is as black as the (potential) female
A. percula pair 2
These are confirmed Solomon Island percula. I picked them up at Aquarium Concepts in Dublin last Saturday. They had been at the store for a week and the original male to the female was in a rough shape (either brook, velvet or a serious bacterial infection) and she chased him away all the time. So I rather took the healthy looking male in the next compartment and he was clearly a good choice as I have no problems at all with him.
Both got dipped for 45 minutes in a formalin solution of 10 drops (~0.3 ml) of fishvet Formalin MS in 2 quarts of saltwater.
After the female started breathing rapidly and started scratching I gave a dose of CP to the tank. I also added PraziPro because she had stringy poo and all the other signs of intestinal parasites. The downside of this treatment is that all fish in the tank, with the exception of the little guy and the marine betta, stopped eating.
This was them last night.
The male is tiny compared to the roughly 3 inch female and I suspect that he will color up like Pair 1.
Yesterday I picked these guys out of a direct Solomon shipment that arrived Wednesday night at Baja Reef in Union City:
I dipped them in formalin like the previous pair.
A. percula pair 3
These guys will likely color up like Pair 1 when they grow up. So far they haven't been the best eaters, even with live tigger pods.
A. percula pair 4
I took these because of the coloring. The little one was pretty beat up but the only other one with this color scheme so I decided to give him a chance. But because he was so beat up I got a good deal on him.
This is them today, stuffed up with tigger pods:
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