Tough little Haddoni

Hmm...skunks is a cool idea....I would imagine that could work out quite well...

The only potential issue I see is that skunks and percs do not have the same mating/submission dance and therefore signals can get crossed...This seems to be the issue with hybrid pairs( ex.chrys x sandaracinos) resulting in either fighting fish or not necessarily a family of clowns but just an association...

If what you really want is the family of clowns with the entire natural like interaction I would recommend Ocellaris above all other species...

On the upside if you maintained this skunk x perc association and it did develop into a family it could put you in the position to end up with "Thielli" progeny should one of the pair die or be removed...

Just food for thought...
 
Thanks for all the wonderful information so far.

I was aware of the morality rate of Ritteri anemones. I have been reading up on them for a long time now. I have been keeping a schedule of weekly 10G water changes on the tank.

I moved the output of one of my returns today because when the water switched to that output it would look like direct flow onto the Ritteri. Well shortly after moving it the Ritteri started to move on the rocks. Once I moved the flow back to were it was the Ritteri returned to its spot.

The female A. Percula has stated to express some interest in the Ritteri. After getting home from work she was going from the carpet to the underside of the Ritteri. She would venture up towards its tenticles but has yet to go inside it. The male on the other hand has showed no interest in the Ritteri at all so far.

Well I got my new Nikon D50 so should be taking some pics soon and will post them up here for all to see.
 
I wouldn't worry about the crossed signals. I have had both a breeding pair of ocellaris with a baby skunk living as a family- this is the female with the little guy
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and currently have a pink skunk "female" which took a little tank raised Ocellaris as a mate while they were in QT together. I didn't intend that pairing to happen, but I don't have the heart to separate them now and am curious what the kids would look like.
 
Well I have taken some pictures, but please bear with me as I am still figuring out this camera. I also need a tripod as my hands shake to much to get a clearer picture. Will try again later but this should give you the ideal of what everything is looking like.

Here is the Carpet

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And here is the Ritteri

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The carpet is supposed to be green but I have not been able to fully figure out this new camera yet. The white balance and the likes is not set in that picture and I was not able to adjust it right in Photoshop. It has been a long time since I have worked with photo editing so hopefully I will be able to get everything correct soon.

The carpet is not as green as it used to be because the tank it was in since the storm did not have Metal Halide lighting. It is slowly picking its color back up though. The carpet is about 10"-11" across most of the time. After being feed it grows a little bit bigger.

The Ritteri is about 11"-12" across when fully expanded. Both are looking good and eating well.
 
Well as promised, now that I have started to figure out this camera, here is the clear picture of my Ritteri Anemone.

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I caught my female A. Percula inside it today, but the male will not move from the Haddon. The female was totally hidden by the anemone until I went to feed it. Wish I would have had my camera at that time. When I got the shrimp close to the Ritteri my female perc pocked her head out and looked at the shrimp. I was suprised by this as she had never really went into the anemone before.

I believe the way she is with this anemone it will be hard for me to put pink skunks into the tank. I say this because it would appear that she has claimed both anemones as her homes.
 
Wow, beautiful anemone. From what I can see it looks really healthy. Any way you can temporarilly divide the tank and not obstruct flow too much to give skunks a chance to get established?
 
Well sadly I can not divide the tank for that. The Ritteri is directly above my Haddon anemone and slightly to the right. So in order to divide the tank I would have to move one of my two anemones.

That is one thing I do not want to do as it seems they both are extremely happy with the locations they are in right now.

So I might have to wait and see what the female perc does in the next month and go from there as to which I will add. I really like the Pink Skunks but am not sure how well it will go over. In the past my A. Percula have been very tolerant of other clowns in their tank as long as they stayed away from the host anemone. So hopefully the female will not concider them both her host.
 
If your percula aren't spawning you might try introducing a mature pair of skunks. They may take over one of the anemone and let the percula have the other.
 
My Percula have not spawned since the tank was wiped. The percs have been with me since I started into the SW hobby and do not want to put something in that would displace them. After everything that they have been through they are my pride and joy now. I can handle putting in maybe juv. skunks and hope for the best, but not sure about mature skunks that would fight with my percs and cause more damage.

I am just unsure on what I want to do. I want more clowns in the tank, but also want to add more color to it also.
 
Hmmm so I see chemicle warfare isn't much of a problem for you. Your already lucky enough to have a beautiful ritteri and carpet after all of that. I wouldn't disrupt the balance. But thats just my opinion.
 
It does seem to be that the two anemones do not have a problem being in the same tank and rather close to one another.

It would seem that my perculas are starting to do spawning behaviors. They are both cleaning up a section of rock underneath the Haddon. They clean for a little while then go back into the anemone and start to shake at one another.

The female percula is starting to spend more time inside the Ritteri but the male refuses to leave the Haddon. Since the female percula has been going into the Ritteri it seems to be opening up even more than normal.

I guess that one study that was done might have some merit. Where the study finds that H. Magnifica does better when it has a host than when it does not.
 
I guess my clowns are back to normal now. Yesterday they spawned on the rock they were cleaning. The female really did not like me being near the tank while they were doing that though. Whenever I got near the tank to look at them spawning she would rush to the front of the tank and bite at the glass.

I guess there was something they did not like about that spawn as they have removed all the eggs that they layed yesterday.

Even with them removing this clutch of eggs it is heart warming to see that they have returned to normal.
 
Good luck. It sounds like either an infertile nest or they were too stressed and ate the nest. Be sure to keep them REALLY REALLY REALLY well fed. She takes up a lot of energy to make those eggs.
 
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