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Unread 03/07/2019, 03:16 AM   #1
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Haddoni Tank

After we moved to a new place the wife wanted a Feng-Shui tank with precisely 6 black & white fish and insisted on black & white "Nemos". The tank should also be rather sparsely decorated.
So I decided to make it a haddoni tank since they were the most readily available.
I found a really large one at AC, a small at CalReef, and 2 slightly larger at Petco.
On clownfish I found a large pair of Darwin ocellaris that could actually be wild or at least very nice tank bred ones and teamed them up with a group of 4 Sea & Reef black & white misbar ocellaris.

The tank is only up a month, so there is still a red slime phase going on.

Also, as I expected, the pair only "adopted" one of the small ones and he helped viciously kicking the other 3 small ones out to hide in the 2 rocks that are in there. I guess I need to replace at least 2 of the small ones with a pair of black & white damsels to put the fear of god into the remaining clowns so that they seek shelter in the anemones. I already got 2 Tuxedo damsels from LA, but they are way too nice to risk them and may also not be mean enough. CalRef has a pair of Dascyllus that might be better suited for the task...






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Unread 03/08/2019, 05:51 AM   #2
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love the small one.


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Unread 03/08/2019, 04:37 PM   #3
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Awesome tank setup! any close ups of the clowns?


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Unread 03/09/2019, 11:06 AM   #4
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Different color haddoni would be cool too, although all that aren't green are really expensive-sure your aware.


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Unread 03/10/2019, 07:31 AM   #5
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Very nice.


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Unread 03/24/2019, 01:59 AM   #8
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Video of the tank:




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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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Unread 03/27/2019, 04:33 PM   #9
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Love a species only tank.


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Unread 03/31/2019, 01:16 PM   #10
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One of the little darwins teamed up with the adult pair and he and the adult male are constantly harrasing and attacking 3 other small ones (who also fight among each other). But that little one is particularly viciuos in his attacks on his brethren.
So I decided to replace all 4 little ones with 3 tuxedo damsels and a new, much smaller but perfectly colored and shaped Sea & Reef darwin I found yesterday as soon as he and the damsels are through quarantine.

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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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Unread 03/31/2019, 05:02 PM   #11
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Nice tank


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Unread 04/01/2019, 10:01 PM   #12
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How big is your tank? That large carpet really fills out the tank.


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Unread 04/02/2019, 12:03 AM   #13
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How big is your tank? That large carpet really fills out the tank.
It's a 42-gallon CADlight tank.


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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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My 3 haddoni in the tank. I'm still fighting the red slime...





The small ones are very sticky, but the large one has almost completely lost its stickiness. It also has often its mouth a bit open. But otherwise it seems to do fine. It eats when I place the food directly into its mouth. Would I feed it like the others, the clowns would just steal the food.

And these are my 3 surplus haddoni in their 40B holding tank.


I cranked the Kessil color dial up to 100% for the picture.


Normally I have the color at about 80% which seems pretty white, but the phone camera makes it look like it's completely blue.

I completed their treatment a couple of days ago and all seem to be fine, though the purple (center) and the gray are not really sticky. The green still has a bit of an open mouth, but it is sticky like superglue. And all are eating (the top picture was taken while they were gulping down their Mysis.)

Right now I'm using those 3 for another attempt to pair anemone crabs...


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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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Unread 04/30/2019, 12:37 AM   #15
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Well, since the red slime didn't want to disapear on its own I decided to wage chemical warfare with Chemiclean and it worked like a charm:




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I hope all is well with you. Haddoni are looking nice.

Chemiclean is the only "chemical" that I use in my tanks. I think it's relatively harmless and works wonders.


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Unread 05/02/2019, 01:42 AM   #17
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I hope all is well with you. Haddoni are looking nice.

Chemiclean is the only "chemical" that I use in my tanks. I think it's relatively harmless and works wonders.
All OK so far.
The two smaller Haddoni kind of "fight" for the same spot straight under the light. The large one stays rather in its corner. But sometimes it pulls its foot out off the sand for a little stroll...



The 3 other haddoni I had to treat are doing fine as well. They didn't even bleach much during treatment. All-in-all I would say that S. haddoni is one of the hardier anemones. Unfortunately, it is also the most dangerous to other inhabitants. The 3 extras in the holding tank have already eaten an anemone crab and a bluestripe pipefish, and those usually know their way around sticky anemones...

Unfortunately, the blue gig I picked up last weekend isn't doing too well. Fourth day of treatment and it is almost completely bleached and still messing up the water and deflating every day. Hopefully it pulls through...

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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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Oh man, I hope that gig pulls through!

I love your haddoni tank as well, its awesome. I will be following along.


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I think the gig will make it. The day 2 photo looks a bit concerning, but the day 4 photos shows the gig's ability to hold itself upright and the typical folds of the oral disk. Nice color!


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Unread 05/02/2019, 11:29 PM   #20
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I think the gig will make it. The day 2 photo looks a bit concerning, but the day 4 photos shows the gig's ability to hold itself upright and the typical folds of the oral disk. Nice color!
Yeah, today it wasn't deflated when I came home and the water was pretty clear as well. But it still seems to expel zooxanthellae. This was it after today's water change:






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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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looking better. Are the tentacles sticky?


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Unread 05/05/2019, 04:58 AM   #22
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I got these 2 haddoni pretty much for free:



One is neon green and the other is gree-tan.
The store had them for a couple of weeks and they were sick for at least 2 weeks. Another week without treatment and they would have been nothing more but slime.
But I found that haddoni can be quite resilient and hope that these are still salvageable.


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3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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