Solomon Percula

Very nice clowns and anemone. Great recovery.
If you ever need more room let me know. I would love to take some of the Percula and Gigantea off your hand.
 
The gigantea is getting bigger and my Maldives Regal is clearly very cautious around it - he grew up around one and learned to avoid them. But since I added the Orchid dottybacks he is less shy and actually comes out into open water more.

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It also looks like my Irian Jaya percula are getting ready to spawn...
 
OrionN said:
I am very interested in how pair number 3 changes. Have they recover the black as the Gigantea recover?

My experience with Magnifica, one Onyx pair completely lost their back in a Magnifica, then recovered all their black in the same Magnifica after 6 months. It was pretty drastic. I have it on a thread somewhere her many years ago.

I don't know the health of the anemone have anything to do with it. I did not think the Magnifica was unhealthy anytime during this this strange color change.
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They never recovered the "onyx" black despite being with no other anemone than gigantea. I have them now with my 3 new giganteas (the blue and purple ones from AC and the bleached tan one from LA). Before that I had them with another purple.

The interesting thing is that pair 2 got a lot more black after I gave them the large purple crispa. Though a lot of the female's body orange turned into a washed-out brown.
 
Pair #2 with their new anemone:
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These guys have become real chickens. At first they were just hanging out in a corner and were too scared to leave it. I had to chase them towards the anemone for them to get there. And now they never leave the anemone, not even for food. Food has to float by the anemone no farther than an inch for them to even consider going after it...

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ThRoewer said:
they never leave the anemone, not even for food. Food has to float by the anemone no farther than an inch for them to even consider going after it...
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It's bizarre but I've seen it happen. Some become bold eaters and swimmers again while others remain in and around anemone all the time.
 
CoralsAddiction said:
It's bizarre but I've seen it happen. Some become bold eaters and swimmers again while others remain in and around anemone all the time.
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It might be in part because they are - aside from a pair of bluestripe pipefish - the only fish in that tank.
Pair #4 behaves very similar - just with a flowerpot instead of an anemone.
And all my other percula are not really bold and outgoing either despite other non-threatening fish in their tanks.

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I added a Starcki damsel and their behavior changed. Now they are more outgoing. Same happened with my Ventralis Anthias and Randalli Assessors - after I added an ocellaris pair to their QT they are far more out and less reclusive.
 
That's good; it's nice to have outgoing clowns.
I have one Percula who is temporarily the only fish in the tank. She isn't shy especially during feeding time (video 1) but spends most of her time in the Magnifica (video 2)
Video 1
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Video 2
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They had 2 Indo onyx percula at AC last weekend. Unfortunately very sick with Brooklynella or with serious ammonia burns (likely both).

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ThRoewer said:
They had 2 Indo onyx percula at AC last weekend. Unfortunately very sick with Brooklynella or with serious ammonia burns (likely both).

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I was tempted to go to AC last Saturday when I was in the Bay Area but didn't get a chance to.
 
A new onyx percula pair from Indonesia I found at a local store today. (The Australian Amphiprion bicolor at the end is from another store and most likely wild-caught. It came in with a few A. milii and a whole bunch of GBR percula):

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The onyx percula came via Bali and were likely collected at West Papua (Irian Jaya) or the Gulf of Tomini, Sulawesi. In any case, they should belong the cryptic and more basal Tomini Bay/Biak "percula" species which is genetically distinct from the true PNG and Solomon Islands percula.
The store had just gotten a whole shipment of them in:

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Pair 2 in their gigantea (the latest of my purple ones)

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The anemone had little effect on the male, but the female got a lot brighter and lost some of her black. Judging by the color she had when I got her it might be possible that she grew up in a magnifica in the wild. I may give it a shot and rehome these guys to to magnifica (just got a new one) to see how it affects them...
 
My pair 4 has adopted 2 RBTAs as hosts. At first, it didn't seem to affect them, but today I noticed that the black of the female has started to fade into a dirty gray. I guess I will have to relocate them quickly and pair them with one of my giganteas. At least that way I will have a suitable tank with the correct hosts ready for the Whitemargin latifaciatus I'm getting from Jordan...
 
Gave pair 3 my small African magnifica (from Diver's Den) and their black started fading away. The female is especially affected. This was actually the case with all my percula that took hosts other that giganteas - the females lost black while the males were little to not affected.
The magnifica is quite healthy with a good sting. It also seems to have grown a bit.

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