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11-23-2007, 10:20 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 731
  |  Clown dance
Hello chaps!
Just added percula clown to my display tank. There has been one already. Good ol' Bob ...  It appears I'm lucky... They seem to be dancing. The one that has been added is definitely bigger ("so I assume") this is female... Is it possible they have paired so quickly ?! BTW, the smaller started exploration of my LR...
Cheers... _________ 75gal. Rio240 JEWEL aquarium
4x54W T5 (actinic blue+white)
Deltec MC 500 internal skimmer
Eheim 2227 Fitler Wet/Dry
Eheim 2213 Filter (100gph/PhosGuard/DeNitrate)
JEWEL Internal Filter (250gph/EhfiSubstrat Pro 2gal)
2 lovely Amphiprion ocelaris
1 young Gobiodon okinawae
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11-23-2007, 10:22 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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its just the dominance dancing that normally occurs.it happens quickly usually.it happened with my pair.i added the biger one last and she danced all day long.also nipped. | |
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11-23-2007, 10:24 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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Thanks... Good to know... Will do some additional reading about their behavior in pairs..!  | |
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11-23-2007, 10:45 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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When I added a smaller percula to a tank with a large female, they paired up within seconds. | |
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11-23-2007, 10:50 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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Ufff... Good to hear that... Thanks for feedback ... They are so funny ! Damn... I do like this hobby ... | |
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11-23-2007, 10:52 AM
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| | Humpback Whale
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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I've had a nemo for the last 8 yrs and I just got him/her a mate from tangster a couple of weeks ago and they hit it off the min. I put him in. In fact, the new nemo was sharing the LTA the very next day. Im just waiting to be a proud grandpa _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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11-23-2007, 11:10 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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I've got one more question. My tank is not ready yet for anemone. However, I wish I could add few soft corals to my system, preferably specimens that could be hosted by clown fish. What would you advise ?!
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11-23-2007, 11:20 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Yep, we call it the "clown dance shimmy" ...
Once the smaller, dominated one starts that up, you have a "pair."
Congrats to the newlyweds! _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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11-23-2007, 11:22 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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toadstool leather are good and bubble corals also.anenomes usually carpets(need a big tank and isky cuz they eat fish)long tentacle,bubble tip tips(i hear works perfct).but it all depends on the clown.they make up their own mind.and it sometimes takes awhile for them to go in. | |
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11-23-2007, 11:39 AM
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| | Millepora
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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I added a rather large perc to the tank after there had already been a smaller one in the tank for about 3 months...The smaller, male, took to the larger one right away. He does the submissive dance....They sleep together, LOL, in our Toadstool....  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
1 Hawkfish
2 Percs
1 Kole Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Leather Toadstool
Long Polyp Toadstool
Orange Sunshine Polyps
Montipora
Acropora
Frogspawn
29 gallon
1 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Yellow Fin Fairy Wrasse
Cleaner Crew
24 FOWLR
Pearly Jawfish
Firefish
Starry Blenny
55 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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