What kind of clowns?
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Crooked Reef
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Onyx clowns are perculas and seeing as how the eye is orange and not black, I’m going to say it’s a color morph of a percula. Could be a hybrid of a percula and an occellaris, but I don’t think so.
Tripod1404
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Onyx is just a selectively bred percula clown
https://www.seaandreef.com/marine-ornamental-fish/clownfish/onyx-c-quest-line
https://www.seaandreef.com/marine-ornamental-fish/clownfish/onyx-c-quest-line
nereefpat
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No idea. Sorry... not a clown or anemone guy.
In nature they relate to magnifica, but in the hobby, these require perfect water and very strong light.
I reccomend a BTA, which they will host, mine do, and easy to care for
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davocean
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Kind of depends, I think it's easier to find a healthy crispa, but personally I think it's easier to control a magnifica if it's a mixed reef, give them a high up perch for max light and not able to touch glass or surounding rockwork and they tend to stay.
The hardest part of keeping mags is getting a healthy one, most newly shipped come w/ bacterial infections requiring cipro treatment, but once you've either overcome that issue or got lucky and avoided alltogether, or bought an established one, I don't think they are that difficult.
Mags are my choice for my perculas, as seen in my avatar I planned and scaped my tank specifically for it, it's right there on left where I put it, and has not moved, makes easy for mixed reef for me.
BTA's wander too much for me, and it may take a long time for them to recognize it.
If I had to choose a non natural alternative, I'd choose LTA or Malu, both stay at sand, and all my percs have accepted both as hosts pretty easily, but of course I do prefer a natural match
davocean
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Mags do perfectly fine under T5's, or quality LEDs, or the combo of both as I have.
I've had many host anemone's over the last 33 years of keeping them w/ the exception of gigantea and mertensi, I really don't think magnifica is difficult to keep at all compared to others I've had.
The hardest part of keeping mags for most all these years was really getting a healthy one to start, and the learning of bacterial infections and the ability to treat them has become a huge game changer.
Also a huge game changer is the recognition of clowns and their instinctive preference for a natural host match
I've had many host anemone's over the last 33 years of keeping them w/ the exception of gigantea and mertensi, I really don't think magnifica is difficult to keep at all compared to others I've had.
The hardest part of keeping mags for most all these years was really getting a healthy one to start, and the learning of bacterial infections and the ability to treat them has become a huge game changer.
Also a huge game changer is the recognition of clowns and their instinctive preference for a natural host match
davocean
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Oh yeah, I've often had frog or hammer as an alternative, especially in smaller tanks.
The main thing I'm pointing out though is how so many people have had their clowns not recognize BTAs as a host for a long time, sometimes never, yet when those same people have added a natural host match to those same clowns, hosting usually happens immediately.
So why some people say there is no gaurantee their clowns will accept an anemone as a host, I think given a natural host nem match pretty much does assure not only hosting, but also pretty much immediate acceptance.
This goes for both wild caught and tank raised clowns.
The main thing I'm pointing out though is how so many people have had their clowns not recognize BTAs as a host for a long time, sometimes never, yet when those same people have added a natural host match to those same clowns, hosting usually happens immediately.
So why some people say there is no gaurantee their clowns will accept an anemone as a host, I think given a natural host nem match pretty much does assure not only hosting, but also pretty much immediate acceptance.
This goes for both wild caught and tank raised clowns.
