novahobbies
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I'm so glad I waited and held out for a rose bubble tip for my maroon clown! Here's Flower (don't know why, my mum-in-law named him) bouncing on his new bed:
The new rose is about 2 inches across at the foot, and the clown was eying the anemone when I had the bag in the tank acclimating temps! I even almost swear he was watching the side of the tank while I was drip-acclimating the anemone next to the display.
Here's my scooter blenny, named for my wife's aunt, Jenny (jenny-blenny, get it?
I know...)
He loves to climb to the top of the LR and throw himself downdraft of the powerhead.....surfing, I guess!
Finally, a quick pic of an oddball in the tank. This is a 1.5 inch Semicurculatis Koran angel. My LFS had had him for almost 2 weeks, I don't know why he wouldn't sell. Maybe because of his size. Anyway, they let me have him for 20 bucks, provided I trade him back to the LFS as soon as he gets too big for the tank!
I kept him in QT for 2 weeks, made sure he was healthy, and now he's the king of my tank. Seriously, he cruises around, looking like he's thinking "yeah, that's mine...that's mine...that too...." Of course, the clown is bigger than him, but I watched the two to make sure, and they're pretty cool towards each other -- no tiffs yet.
Speaking of tiffs : when I introduced the rose anemone to the tank, of course the maroon clown was practically jumping for joy. But one of the skunk cleaner shrimp came over and started prodding the anemone (trying to clean I guess, but looked like poking). I was getting ready to get my hand in there to shoo the shrimp away when Flower picked up the shrimp by one claw, swam him to the corner of the tank, and uncerimoniously dumped him on his rear before swimming back to the anemone. Shrimp hasn't bugged the anemone since.
The new rose is about 2 inches across at the foot, and the clown was eying the anemone when I had the bag in the tank acclimating temps! I even almost swear he was watching the side of the tank while I was drip-acclimating the anemone next to the display.
Here's my scooter blenny, named for my wife's aunt, Jenny (jenny-blenny, get it?
He loves to climb to the top of the LR and throw himself downdraft of the powerhead.....surfing, I guess!
Finally, a quick pic of an oddball in the tank. This is a 1.5 inch Semicurculatis Koran angel. My LFS had had him for almost 2 weeks, I don't know why he wouldn't sell. Maybe because of his size. Anyway, they let me have him for 20 bucks, provided I trade him back to the LFS as soon as he gets too big for the tank!
I kept him in QT for 2 weeks, made sure he was healthy, and now he's the king of my tank. Seriously, he cruises around, looking like he's thinking "yeah, that's mine...that's mine...that too...." Of course, the clown is bigger than him, but I watched the two to make sure, and they're pretty cool towards each other -- no tiffs yet.
Speaking of tiffs : when I introduced the rose anemone to the tank, of course the maroon clown was practically jumping for joy. But one of the skunk cleaner shrimp came over and started prodding the anemone (trying to clean I guess, but looked like poking). I was getting ready to get my hand in there to shoo the shrimp away when Flower picked up the shrimp by one claw, swam him to the corner of the tank, and uncerimoniously dumped him on his rear before swimming back to the anemone. Shrimp hasn't bugged the anemone since.
