My new Sabae Clown

[jimmy40741]

I've had a Sabae clown hosting a Sabae anemone for about 8 months, and I'd always wanted to get her a mate but could never find another Sabae clown locally. Well I finally found one and he went into the tank this past weekend. As I knew would happen, she went straight at him and started nipping at him for the first day or so, but she's alot less aggressive now. She charges at him, but no more nipping. He's still not submitted to her totally, he still twitches and turns his back to her.
She of course has the anemone as her territory and he kind of roams around but has taken one front corner as his where I have a featherduster. It's funny to watch because he is hosting the feather duster. He's not aggressively hosting it, but I have seen him take food back to it and also get in the middle of it and 'wallow' around like she does with her anemone.
Another funny thing that I saw on the second or third day is while she was away from the anemone behind the rocks he found it and dived right in the middle. She came back up and was under the anemone while he was on top and it took her about 30 seconds or so until she figured out he was there. Of course she popped up and ran him out, but then he went under the anemone while she was on top. It was just funny to see one peeking out the bottom and the other on top like they were playing hide and seek. This happened about 3 times before she finally ran him completely away from her anemone.
I don't have a question or anything like that, I just wanted to share my experience with watching my new clownfish. I know that it could take months before she will accept him and let him in the anemone, if she even ever does. But I'm hoping that they will pair up eventually.

 

[spanko]

Great story, thank you for sharing it!

 

[jimmy40741]

Update on my Sebaes: My female let her new friend into her anemone this past weekend. On Saturday I watched him get close to the anemone and she'd allow him to stay around the edge and every once in a while he'd back into it just enough to hide himself, and if she was around she'd chase him out. Then on Sunday I noticed that she'd let him into the anemone while she was in it. And last night and this morning while the lights were out I used a flashlight to check on him and she was allowing him to sleep in it with her. It's really suprised me that after only 8 days she's let him in and has appeared to accept him. And we've had a blast watching those two over the past few days.