Wild Onyx Clownfish. Take 3

[CoralsAddiction]

This clown has a Ritteri anemone in the tank but he chose a Bounce Mushroom as an alternate host! He needs to move!
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[ThRoewer]

He wants a gigantea and the bounce is closer to that than the magnifica.
I actually noticed that some percula, especially the ones with lots of black, are very insistent on a gigantea. Before they accept any other anemone, even others that are natural hosts for percula, they rather cozy up with mushrooms, green star polyps, and the like.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

That's tough. I could get them a second magnifica today that's twice the size of the current one but no gigantea around.

 

[ThRoewer]

That's tough. I could get them a second magnifica today that's twice the size of the current one but no gigantea around.

If you come across a larger healthy magnifica and don't want it yourself, I still need one for my bicinctus. The small one from DD is suffering too much with such big fish.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Ok, things are getting out of control. He's loving the mushroom harder tonight. If this continues I might have to move things around.
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[OrionN]

That bounce is getting big. Time to take out the razor blade.
That is a very nice pair.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

That bounce is getting big. Time to take out the razor blade.

Hopefully soon

 

[CoralsAddiction]

My main pair has been living in their magnifica for about 20 days and I have not noticed any loss in black color...yet. I also added two wrasses to my tank several days ago. Since then the smaller clown hangs out by overflow area during the day and sleeps in the anemone at night. He has stopped treating the bounce mushroom as a host anemone.
Finally, the anemone has grown a little bit. Its metallic green oral disc is unique and beautiful. I have not seen many/any others of its kind in that color scheme.

My third wild Onyx has paired with a small ORA bred Ocellaris clownfish.

 

[ThRoewer]

The two Indonesian percula I picked up today:

https://youtu.be/7km8FC-9T74

(and a wild Amphiprion bicolor I found today.)

And these were all the wild percula they had at the store:

https://youtu.be/jZHbytXgt6M

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[ronalvio]

Does anyone have a pair or single wild onyx for sale please let me know.. ive been looking forever.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Hello!

Magnifica 4 months in my care

Running out of room. Upgrade coming soon

 

[ronalvio]

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Hi , Coral Addiction please contact me if you have any onyx percs for sale... Im in the Bay Area. thanks so much!

 

[ThRoewer]

Hi , Coral Addiction please contact me if you have any onyx percs for sale... Im in the Bay Area. thanks so much!

If you are in the Bay Area you should check out Aquatic Collection and Neptune frequently. Both get wild onyx percula from time to time. These days those usually come via Bali and most likely origin from Sulawesi (Gulf of Tomini) or West Papua which genetic research found to be a different species than the true percula from PNG/New Britain and the Solomon Islands. But from the looks you can't really tell much of a difference.
Violet Sea in San Jose had wild GBR percula from Australia recently, though those are not onyx and always have just thin black borders.

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[ronalvio]

Thank you TRower. I frequent those stores quite a bit and its hit and miss. I saw the last batch from Bali- and kick myself for not getting some of them.. 50 buck each. Since then, its been only ORA or SR stuff in the bigger stores. Not really that interested in those...
Something about a wild specimen that is completely beautiful and strong... Ill keep looking but I am also getting into breeding. I have a few pair already but wanted to add a Wild Onyx into the mix... Madhu does get a lot of fish and last time he only had wild occelaris.. his staff could not tell the difference - must be newbies. Ill keep a look out.... the ones Rob had at Neptune were really nice if not really onyx..

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Lol I had one for $35 a couple of months ago but it's gone.

 

[ronalvio]

Corals addiction- where did you get your wild from?
I went to Violets they only had percs... once again Madhu thought he had percs...
I went to Neptune... nice large perc but they were just fish sitting for a customer so NFS

Darn...

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Corals addiction- where did you get your wild from?
I went to Violets they only had percs... once again Madhu thought he had percs...
I went to Neptune... nice large perc but they were just fish sitting for a customer so NFS

Darn...

The female was from a fellow reefer's tank. It was formerly a male. The smaller current male came from a fish store in SoCal. Hit up Marinecollectors on Instagram. They had some pairs for $300.

 

[ronalvio]

Thanks I’ll reach out to them

 

[ronalvio]

Also I meant to say he had ocellaris not percs.

 

[ronalvio]

Just picked up this pair from aquatic collection, both lost their mates so snagged them and put them together

The yellow one has a messed up small tail. Like a stubby almost. The black one is perfect. I think c quest perhaps?

Anyhow can someone tell me more about this yellow one? Looks like wild based on wild pattern.

It has personality and felt a little connected to this poor fella.

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