NicoleC
New member
I haven't reported in a while, so I thought I'd give some notes.
My clown babies are doing very well and entering a big growth phase. They are voracious eaters and are schooling together. They are a bit easily startled at this age -- probably because one gets spooked and they all swim away together.
FINALLY I have lots of stripes. It's about 7 weeks old for them. It;s very odd, but I seem to have two distinct sets of fry. One set is darker and their bodies are shaped more like their pa. (Some of you may recall that ma and pa are very different looking -- mama is tangerine and a little stubby, papa is almost red, has more black and has a sleeker body shape, although he has a smidgen of an underbite.) These guys are my monster babies that took an early lead on size. They look gorgeous and -- unlike pa -- no sign of underbites.
The other set is more orange and is smaller and they are rounder like mama. It's too soon to tell for sure, but some seem to have a slight underbite.
Here's the wierd part -- the small ones almost all have three good stripes. I say "almost" because they move to fast for me to be sure about them all. The bigger ones uniformly have their first stripe, a spot on the back where the second strip should be, and the third stripe varies widely -- one has NO third strip and some have a full stripe and a few have a spot on top like their second stripe. The stripes on these guys do not appear to be growing.
Call me crazy, but maybe pa is a A. percula instead of A. ocellaris? It would not srprise me to have at least some misbarrs, but the pattern seems odd under the circumstances.
I've never been able to tell them apart and have no good eyeball pictures and certainly none clear enough to count dorsal spines. They wiggle too much! Here's the best I can find in the photo archives, both are fairly old shots:
Papa:
Mama:
My clown babies are doing very well and entering a big growth phase. They are voracious eaters and are schooling together. They are a bit easily startled at this age -- probably because one gets spooked and they all swim away together.
FINALLY I have lots of stripes. It's about 7 weeks old for them. It;s very odd, but I seem to have two distinct sets of fry. One set is darker and their bodies are shaped more like their pa. (Some of you may recall that ma and pa are very different looking -- mama is tangerine and a little stubby, papa is almost red, has more black and has a sleeker body shape, although he has a smidgen of an underbite.) These guys are my monster babies that took an early lead on size. They look gorgeous and -- unlike pa -- no sign of underbites.
The other set is more orange and is smaller and they are rounder like mama. It's too soon to tell for sure, but some seem to have a slight underbite.
Here's the wierd part -- the small ones almost all have three good stripes. I say "almost" because they move to fast for me to be sure about them all. The bigger ones uniformly have their first stripe, a spot on the back where the second strip should be, and the third stripe varies widely -- one has NO third strip and some have a full stripe and a few have a spot on top like their second stripe. The stripes on these guys do not appear to be growing.
Call me crazy, but maybe pa is a A. percula instead of A. ocellaris? It would not srprise me to have at least some misbarrs, but the pattern seems odd under the circumstances.
I've never been able to tell them apart and have no good eyeball pictures and certainly none clear enough to count dorsal spines. They wiggle too much! Here's the best I can find in the photo archives, both are fairly old shots:
Papa:
Mama:
