The Percula Club.

[Steven1015]

Has anyone had success with mixing a pair of percs in with alike a group of occlaris clowns? I just recently lost my nice pair of percs and considering buying a pair of picassos or looking for soem SI or onyx percs. Also will picassos develop more black as they age there is a pair im looking at there smaller in size now i with not much black in them there is some but not alot they are bright orange though.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I personally am not a fan of having more then one pair of clowns in a tank -- too many troubles.



Update on my pair --- after six whole days, they decided to find the LTA.

 

[FiShTaCo]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14338335#post14338335 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
I personally am not a fan of having more then one pair of clowns in a tank -- too many troubles.



Update on my pair --- after six whole days, they decided to find the LTA.

Cool!!! You should take a video & upload them playing on YouTube! :eek1: Such purdy fish. Keep us updated on there color.

 

[OrionN]

Here is my Onyx pair

 

[PSam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14332677#post14332677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
Hopefully they won't lose any of the black, I will have to keep an eye on that.

Any update, Todd? How are they looking? Curious to see if yours lost the black like mine did and, if not, what are you feeding them...?

updated pic of mine:

 

[Toddrtrex]

Mine have lost a lot of black by the dorsal fin --- more so with the female. Otherwise they are doing great, and always begging for food. I feed them a mix of Rod's food (( blue, red and green label )), Prime Reef, LiveLife's Herbivore mix, and spectrum pellets.

Current shot,

And when I first got them, back in January

 

[gemmasicolo]

Yayyyyy, I get to join the club! Here is my WC from Bali:

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I'm having the hardest time finding a little guy for her locally. I've been searching for a while now and the only true percs i'm finding are either too big or look sick. I can't order one online because between the price of the fish and the shipping they're just too expensive.

 

[PSam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14975210#post14975210 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Toddrtrex
Mine have lost a lot of black by the dorsal fin --- more so with the female. Otherwise they are doing great, and always begging for food. I feed them a mix of Rod's food (( blue, red and green label )), Prime Reef, LiveLife's Herbivore mix, and spectrum pellets.

Looking great. They still have much more black than mine, and I feed basically the same stuff you do. Hmmm. Oh well!

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14976191#post14976191 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PSam
Looking great. They still have much more black than mine, and I feed basically the same stuff you do. Hmmm. Oh well!

Thanks, and I had a feeling that you were feeding similar.

And I can't say if them being hosted caused it or not, since they only took 6 days to host. Though, the male hasn't lost as much black as the female, and for a while there she wouldn't let him in. That might explain why he hasn't lost as much, as of yet.

 

[PSam]

Mine took to some xenia umbellata in about 24 hours and seriously have not moved from that corner in, well, about a year and a half since I got them. They just do not leave the colony, ever. Maybe the color loss is just an environment thing, although they are a bit smaller than yours, perhaps it'll come back? Who knows. Love em anyway.

 

[ILLiDaN]

Psam did they lose the coloration a while after introduced to the xenia?
Also anything maybe not even out of the ordinary change in your tank prior to this? Different substrate, filter media, additives?Also any change in feeding and or lighting?

 

[PSam]

Well, hard to say, because they were in the Xenia within 24 hours of receiving them. Couple skimmer changes over the last year or two, but same foods, same additives. Who knows what it could be. Let me see if I can dig up an early pic....

ok.. you can see the male lost quite a bit of black. it's still there, but very light, very very light. Look around the dorsal when i first got them, a good amount of black color

a bit later on....

and now, you can see here, a fairly recent pic, there's none visible on the male by the dorsal, right side...

and the left side... also see how it's lost on the female by now, but much less so than the male..

 

[ILLiDaN]

if they are wild caught though seems like its common. In hoffs book he says it has something to do with drastic changes and common in wc clowns. Im pretty sure its alot of other factors dang marine biologists need to research harder

 

[ILLiDaN]

did you by any chance change bulb intensity?

 

[meenamjah]

One has a bit of an odd pattern... anyone know what it's called?

 

[zac312]

here is my pair of true percs

 

[mantis1437]

I would like to join the club too. Here is a pair that I had.....

 

[RandyReefer]

I will like to join. Will post a pic of them soon



Current tank info: 22 gallon, with mated pair onyx percula clownfish

 

[theronsta]

heres mine she had barely any black on her when I got her

 

[lbondy]

New mom of pair of Perculas. love them!

New mom of pair of Perculas. love them!

Day 3 of paired perculas in my SWT. So far they are the only fish (along with a BTA) They have not hosted yet. She comes close to it, looks at it and then swims away. It is like waiting for her to make the first step. ( No, I do not have kids, just dogs and fish. Picture is when I started with yellow tail damsel until tank matured, they were returned and now can have my Perculas!