A. tricinctus pair update.

Planetmacro · 05/28/2019, 03:14 PM

I finally moved most of my fish to the new place. I've had this A. tricinctus pair for 5 months now the female has grown considerably but the male has stayed small. https://youtu.be/dRFKgpMoh_g

hottuna · 05/28/2019, 07:45 PM

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ocellaris123 · 05/28/2019, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Planetmacro

I finally moved most of my fish to the new place. I've had this A. tricinctus pair for 5 months now the female has grown considerably but the male has stayed small. https://youtu.be/dRFKgpMoh_g

Nice!!! love seeing other species of clowns besides the normal percs/ocellaris.

Do you plan on putting an anemone in with them

ThRoewer · 05/30/2019, 01:26 AM

The female looks almost exactly like a chrysogaster, only the orange isn't bright and yellow enough.

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Planetmacro · 05/30/2019, 08:05 AM

The Indian Ocean Clarkii Complex clowns are very closely related and since the larvae are dispersed by the currents, there must be some degree hybridizing. This pair came from the Marshall Islands and had I had more room I would have bought several more. My friend gets them in every so often. It is unfortunate that the majority of hobbyist prefer today's designer clown abominations. In the wholesaler's holding tanks, most clowns are dead in less than a week from brooklynella. If I don't buy them within a day or two of arrival they are doomed. But I have limited space. Also, this hobby is dying, at least in my area and the so called environmentalist are trying hard to stop all ornamental fish and invert collection. Just look at the situation in Hawaii. Plus the LFSs around here will not pay $85 wholesale for a bicinctus or $30 wholesale for a tricinctus and a few of the bigger stores are bringing in the fish direct from the collectors cutting out the wholesalers. Those of us who breed and appreciate the beauty of natural clowns should at some point form a co-operative with the goal of solving the captive bred deformity issue and exchange ideas and broodstock. With about 30 species of clowns 99% of us will not be able to keep and breed them all. I have mated pairs of the following species: A. allardi, A. bicinctus, A. ocellaris, A. percula, A. tricinctus and P. biaculeatus (Gold Bar).

Perhaps we should start a new thread and see if there is interest in this proposal.

Desertoasis · 05/30/2019, 08:40 AM

Very nice! That video is super crisp too!

Planetmacro · 05/30/2019, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ocellaris123

Nice!!! love seeing other species of clowns besides the normal percs/ocellaris.

Do you plan on putting an anemone in with them

They have a haddoni but due to my neglect it has bleached and shrunk. I'm in the process of reconditioning it back to health. You can see it at the end of the video. I just finished the monumental task of moving 40 tanks to my new home. Fish are easy to keep, anemones are not. I just got a Merten's but it is too small for them.

ThRoewer · 05/30/2019, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Planetmacro

... With about 30 species of clowns 99% of us will not be able to keep and breed them all. ...

I would think that there are at least twice as many Anemonefish species, potentially up to 100, hiding in plain sight as "local variants".

The Gold Bar Maroon for example should be correctly named Premnas (or even more correctly Amphiprion) epigrammata. DeJong has them actually listed as such.

ThRoewer · 05/30/2019, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Planetmacro

They have a haddoni but due to my neglect it has bleached and shrunk. I'm in the process of reconditioning it back to health. You can see it at the end of the video. I just finished the monumental task of moving 40 tanks to my new home. Fish are easy to keep, anemones are not. I just got a Merten's but it is too small for them.

How big are your tanks?
Back in Germany I had about as many, enough to fill a single car garage.

Planetmacro · 05/30/2019, 05:30 PM

My biggest tanks now are 40 breeders because that’s the biggest I can carry. Half of my tanks are freshwater.

05/28/2019, 03:14 PM	#1
Planetmacro Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 160	A. tricinctus pair update. I finally moved most of my fish to the new place. I've had this A. tricinctus pair for 5 months now the female has grown considerably but the male has stayed small. https://youtu.be/dRFKgpMoh_g

05/28/2019, 07:45 PM	#2
hottuna Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,248	love them air driven filters...Old School. __________________ HotTuna

05/30/2019, 01:26 AM	#4
ThRoewer Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Fremont, CA Posts: 9,555	The female looks almost exactly like a chrysogaster, only the orange isn't bright and yellow enough. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk __________________ Pairs: 4 percula, 3 P. kauderni, 3 D. excisus, 1 ea of P. diacanthus, S. splendidus, C. altivelis O. rosenblatti, D. janssi, S. yasha & a Gramma loreto trio 3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki Current Tank Info: 200 gal 4 tank system (40x28x24 + 40B + 40B sump tank + 20g refugium) + 30x18x18 mixed reef + 20g East Pacific biotop + 20g FW +...

05/30/2019, 08:05 AM	#5
Planetmacro Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 160	The Indian Ocean Clarkii Complex clowns are very closely related and since the larvae are dispersed by the currents, there must be some degree hybridizing. This pair came from the Marshall Islands and had I had more room I would have bought several more. My friend gets them in every so often. It is unfortunate that the majority of hobbyist prefer today's designer clown abominations. In the wholesaler's holding tanks, most clowns are dead in less than a week from brooklynella. If I don't buy them within a day or two of arrival they are doomed. But I have limited space. Also, this hobby is dying, at least in my area and the so called environmentalist are trying hard to stop all ornamental fish and invert collection. Just look at the situation in Hawaii. Plus the LFSs around here will not pay $85 wholesale for a bicinctus or $30 wholesale for a tricinctus and a few of the bigger stores are bringing in the fish direct from the collectors cutting out the wholesalers. Those of us who breed and appreciate the beauty of natural clowns should at some point form a co-operative with the goal of solving the captive bred deformity issue and exchange ideas and broodstock. With about 30 species of clowns 99% of us will not be able to keep and breed them all. I have mated pairs of the following species: A. allardi, A. bicinctus, A. ocellaris, A. percula, A. tricinctus and P. biaculeatus (Gold Bar). Perhaps we should start a new thread and see if there is interest in this proposal. Last edited by Planetmacro; 05/30/2019 at 08:36 AM.

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Desertoasis Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2019 Location: La Quinta, CA Posts: 45	Very nice! That video is super crisp too!

05/30/2019, 05:30 PM	#10
Planetmacro Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 160	My biggest tanks now are 40 breeders because that’s the biggest I can carry. Half of my tanks are freshwater.