DeepBlueSea
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Back in 1993 I started my 1st fish only SW aqaurium. The reef bug quickly caught me, but I still had a few fish one being a yellow banded maroon clown. I focused on SPS and created what I considered a very successful aquarium with minimal fish. Then one day I saw another larger yellow banded maroon clown and purchased that too... (According to the sticky's this was risky)
I'm no clown expert and back in the early / mid 90's I didn't have access to all this great information I'm finding on REEFCENTRAL.
So I've just finished reading through all the stickys at the top of the board and I have to say I sure did have a great mated pair of maroon clown fish back in the day... without even knowing it...
I remember when I first introduced them they would lock jaws and the larger one would "man" handle the smaller one. (I thought they were playing.) Eventually that stopped and they would hang out together all day... I never purchased a host anenome because I didn't want to have the issues with my prized SPS dominant tank.... However after awhile these two little clown fish would get me so mad because they would wave their tails and blow deep holes in my sand bed, knocking over my clams or cover my zoas with the sand. (I had no idea what they were doing.) I would get so agravated that every morning i would come down again they would have this big hole dug and sand would be coverying everything 8" around thier little area in the 75g tank.... I didn't appreciate any of this, other then they were cool little fish....
Then one day I was cleaning the sponges in my overflow and I'm looking and looking and saying what the hell is that? Little orange beads are all stuck in the sponge that I used to keep the water fall sound from happeing in my overflow and in the sump in the filter bag... I was kind of excited that I had fish that actually spawned. I assumed the 2000 gph flow that I had running through that 75g just wisked them away and into the overflow...
When I broke down that tank almost 7 years ago... I brought them to a LFS. I can only hope that the LFS sold them as a mated pair.
So now I'm getting back into the hobby after a 7 year absence and I really look forward to creating a little patch of the sea just for a mated pair of maroon clownfish..... This time I think I'll get them a host so they don't fan the sand with their tails....
Wish me luck...
I'm no clown expert and back in the early / mid 90's I didn't have access to all this great information I'm finding on REEFCENTRAL.
So I've just finished reading through all the stickys at the top of the board and I have to say I sure did have a great mated pair of maroon clown fish back in the day... without even knowing it...
I remember when I first introduced them they would lock jaws and the larger one would "man" handle the smaller one. (I thought they were playing.) Eventually that stopped and they would hang out together all day... I never purchased a host anenome because I didn't want to have the issues with my prized SPS dominant tank.... However after awhile these two little clown fish would get me so mad because they would wave their tails and blow deep holes in my sand bed, knocking over my clams or cover my zoas with the sand. (I had no idea what they were doing.) I would get so agravated that every morning i would come down again they would have this big hole dug and sand would be coverying everything 8" around thier little area in the 75g tank.... I didn't appreciate any of this, other then they were cool little fish....
Then one day I was cleaning the sponges in my overflow and I'm looking and looking and saying what the hell is that? Little orange beads are all stuck in the sponge that I used to keep the water fall sound from happeing in my overflow and in the sump in the filter bag... I was kind of excited that I had fish that actually spawned. I assumed the 2000 gph flow that I had running through that 75g just wisked them away and into the overflow...
When I broke down that tank almost 7 years ago... I brought them to a LFS. I can only hope that the LFS sold them as a mated pair.
So now I'm getting back into the hobby after a 7 year absence and I really look forward to creating a little patch of the sea just for a mated pair of maroon clownfish..... This time I think I'll get them a host so they don't fan the sand with their tails....
Wish me luck...
