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Couldn't find another female so I picked up another male, about half the size of the one I already had. I will try to pair them once the new one is done with QT.
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08/14/2019, 07:07 PM | #28 |
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What do you find attractive about gold bars?
I find myself partial to PNG, SI clowns and thus I’d always pick white bar maroons or Lightning maroons if I’m not keeping percula. |
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Best picture I could take so far...
This guy is tiny. I chose to go with a smaller male because the surviving male of the initial pair had already darkened a lot and started to have the coloration of a female. Plus, large females seem to be in short supply at the moment. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
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And then, gold bars are less aggressive towards other fish. Finally, they are a different species (Amphiprion epigrammata) even if not officially recognized and not in the correct genus at the moment (all genetic studies have shown that they clearly belong with Amphiprion.) As for Lightning Maroons, there have been only 2 wild-caught specimens collected at PNG. So you can only get captive-bred which are rarely free of deformities. And even if free of deformities, unless they would come straight from Matt Peterson I wouldn't touch any Lightnings as they may have been crossed with Maroons from different localities (= potentially different species).
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Is the new male wild caught? If your ever in the Southern California area an LFS I go to frequently always has a good selection of GSM maroons, ranging from small to large. My female was red when I first got her, but has darkened up considerably in the two months that I have had her so far.
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My LFS have two gold bar maroons WC. I am thinking of getting them and pair them up. I like the color of Gold bar better than white.
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IMO, the anemone in the photo on page 235 hosting the two white stripe maroons looks like Entacmaea quadricolor. Quote:
The maroon clown Premnas biaculeatus, the sole member in genus Premnas is commonly known as spine- cheek anemone fish. Adult fishes have golden yellow bands and all young ones possess white bands. Males are smaller and brighter red than females with brilliant white stripes. This reef fish is in high demand in the marine ornamental fish trade due to their most striking colouration, and proclivity to live in association with tentacle anemone Heteractis magnifica and bulb tipped or purple base sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor (Allen, 1972, 1980). In India, this species is available only in the coral reef ecosystem of Andaman and Nicobar islands (Talwar, 1990; Madhu and Madhu, 2000). " Old source, I don't find the above credible information, not WRT H. magnifica hosting Premnas biaculeatus in the wild. |
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To me it’s not a matter of one having “better colors” than the other. It’s a region thing. I don’t think white bars are “prettier”. It’s about what I associate with what comes from that region. PNG and SI have always had crazy and rare aberrant percula and Maroon clowns; you can add Leucokranos to that list too. That’s why I would pick a white bar maroon. Gold bars to me are about equal in looks as white bars.
The monster pair I had, acquired from Aquatic Collection in Hayward. I sent the pair to a friend but transit ended up taking 10 days due to currier mistake. They died, unfortunately. Last edited by CoralsAddiction; 08/16/2019 at 11:51 PM. |
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I also believe the Maroon clown shown below is a hybrid clown. Picture taken at a fish store in Sacramento area.
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That’s a BTA. The tentacles on the bottom of the picture make it abundantly clear.
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^ Yes CoralsAdiction, I couldn't agree more.
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What they accept as hosts in the wild is one thing and what in captivity another. I would think that they would accept a magnifica if no BTA is present.
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The original male (now female) finally paired with the smaller one I added:
They are sitting right next to a pair of ocellaris in a magnifica. There had been a little bit of posing on both sides but by now they get along just fine despite the fact that they literally sit on top of each other.
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