The Percula Club.
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Kmiec123
Actual CMAS Member
My original pair, in which is my avatar, was purchased as juvenile wild caught True Percula Clownfish from
Beyond the Reef http://www.beyondthereef.org/
in Schaumburg, IL. in 2001. Funny enough, just digging through some old receipts I happened to find the original receipt a few months back. Thant was pretty cool!
Anyway, although I may show a little favoritism, they developed into the most beautiful pair of clowns I have yet to see in person. Here are a couple pics.
After a move to Chicago and my first successful rearing of a couple of batches or babies I have a bit of a tragedy. Housing a few pair in some breeder’s nets on my 120 gallon display tank, our cat got on top of the tanks light fixture and knocked on of the breeder’s net into the tanks. With Papa tending to a nest, he wasn’t too fond of the idea of another pair in his tank so he came to fend off the intruders and managed to end up on the floor. (Carpet Surfing)
I then paired up a new male with on of the nicer looking, most black, 8 month old fish I had and it was the cutest thing you ever saw. Mama took right to the new little guy and took him for a tour of the whole tanks showing him all the little nooks and crannies. She then brought him to the nest and persisted in showing him his new job of tending to them, I thought the nuns in Catholic school were bad….Mama was tuff.
That batch went ok and to my surprise, mama never missed a beat and laid her nest set of eggs down as if nothing happened. I figured I would get a few batched unfertilized for a while until the new male matured, but low and behold, the little guy fertilized every egg in that first spawn at only eight months old.
Here are a few pics of the new little stud, which has been with mama for almost a year now.
Here are a couple of nice picture of one of the males, from the original papa #1, that has really colored up nicely.
Well, there you have it, a little more background on the life of Kmiec123.
Beyond the Reef http://www.beyondthereef.org/
in Schaumburg, IL. in 2001. Funny enough, just digging through some old receipts I happened to find the original receipt a few months back. Thant was pretty cool!
Anyway, although I may show a little favoritism, they developed into the most beautiful pair of clowns I have yet to see in person. Here are a couple pics.
After a move to Chicago and my first successful rearing of a couple of batches or babies I have a bit of a tragedy. Housing a few pair in some breeder’s nets on my 120 gallon display tank, our cat got on top of the tanks light fixture and knocked on of the breeder’s net into the tanks. With Papa tending to a nest, he wasn’t too fond of the idea of another pair in his tank so he came to fend off the intruders and managed to end up on the floor. (Carpet Surfing)
I then paired up a new male with on of the nicer looking, most black, 8 month old fish I had and it was the cutest thing you ever saw. Mama took right to the new little guy and took him for a tour of the whole tanks showing him all the little nooks and crannies. She then brought him to the nest and persisted in showing him his new job of tending to them, I thought the nuns in Catholic school were bad….Mama was tuff.
That batch went ok and to my surprise, mama never missed a beat and laid her nest set of eggs down as if nothing happened. I figured I would get a few batched unfertilized for a while until the new male matured, but low and behold, the little guy fertilized every egg in that first spawn at only eight months old.
Here are a few pics of the new little stud, which has been with mama for almost a year now.
Here are a couple of nice picture of one of the males, from the original papa #1, that has really colored up nicely.
Well, there you have it, a little more background on the life of Kmiec123.
OrionN
Moved on
My male of this pair is actually a Ocellaris/Percula hybrid. I have other pairs. I will try to post picture of them later.
Mona,
BTA sometime can caouse the color of Percula to fade. Various people have documented this. I wonder if your Percula would be much blacker if they do not live with BTA as host. Please do not get me wrong. I think your tank is very beautiful with those Rose and Green BTA and clowns.
Mona,
BTA sometime can caouse the color of Percula to fade. Various people have documented this. I wonder if your Percula would be much blacker if they do not live with BTA as host. Please do not get me wrong. I think your tank is very beautiful with those Rose and Green BTA and clowns.
Poisonus Yeti
New member
My true perculas in QT.
OrionN
Moved on
Speaking for myself, I agree with "beautiful fish" but not "great photography". I must have taken 50 pictures to come up with these few. I am still not happy with the pictures but it is the best I can do right now.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12446872#post12446872 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dc
Definately some beautiful fish and great photography here.
Thanks
For other who posted pictures, there are some very beautiful fish and some great photography. I wanted to added to the thread and to brag about my fish a little.
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