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01/07/2019, 09:40 PM | #1 |
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A. clarkii pair
This is a 30 gal long tank that houses 4 haddonis, a pair of black clarkii from the Maldives and a pair go C. acanthops.https://youtu.be/8dnM3lCCsS0
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I love your combination, what skimmer and lights do you use ?
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Thank you Fiish! You're not going to believe me but this tank is really low tech. No skimmer, no sump. Just 4 old large corner filters (the round ones) filled with crushed coral with heavy aereation, live sand and some live rock. I just started using the new Tunze waterproof LED Blue/White lights. They are submergible and held in place by magnets. I also use one 48" 5,500K LED tube. I've found that haddonis don't like too much water movement so I use a pulsing powerhead at a low setting. These anemones don't like too much light either. Haddoni anemones need a deep sand bed. I don't have nearly enough sand in this tank. S. haddoni and. S. gigantic live in sandy areas in lagoons. S. mertensii lives on the reef attached to rocks and needs much more water movement. At first I was using high power LEDs and the carpets kept shrinking and moving around trying to hide from the light. Now they look quite good. I feed these fish a lot as I'm trying to breed the Centropyge and the clarkii when they mature so I have lots of algae. Both the clowns and the pygmy angels feed on the algae. When the algae gets out of hand I manually remove it. I usually don't keep a fish unless I intend to breed it.
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01/08/2019, 04:13 AM | #7 |
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Gigantea...live in the rocks in many cases...like very strong light and flow
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super nice pair
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Beautiful tank.
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are you sure those are a. clarkii?
they look very a. allardi to me....
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Thanks everyone. No, they are not allardi. I've had allardi in the past and will get a pair or two whenever my wholesaler gets a shipment from Kenya. Both species are very similar. I have two mated pairs of C. acanthus and one pair of C. fisheri. I pair them myself. I have observed them spawning several times per month under actinic light but I'm not prepared to attempt raising the very small larvae at this time. I have a pair of long nose hawkish that should spawn soon as the female is fat with eggs. I have no idea how thy spawn. My three pairs of Bangaii Cardinals spawn at least once per month but always eat the eggs. I keep forty species of freshwater fish so something's always spawning. I'm up to my eyeballs with fish. Need warm weather so I can start selling and shipping.
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01/09/2019, 09:38 AM | #14 |
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im going to continue to challenge your ID!
clarkii just dont have that body shape. additionally, the defining feature is their head stripe: all allardi have that wide stripe than tapers to a point, very triangular. another distinct feature is the stripe on the tail and how the center stripe extends into the dorsal and along the top. you just dont see that in clarkii. but you DO see it always in allardi. i love your fish. allardi are always really enjoyable.
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Planetmacro, congratulations for your awesome job again.
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very nice fish!
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Thank you.
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Okay, according to all I've read, allardi has a white tail. These have black tails. Since they came from a Maldive shipment, the closest species is chrysogaster from the Seychelles. Chrysogaster has a black tail. Somebody please help me ID this pair.
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01/13/2019, 06:57 AM | #21 |
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Allardi juveniles start out with tails like you see on yours. Only at maturity do they have the white tails.
Chrysogaster come out of Mauritius, are exceptionally rare in the hobby and are never accidentally mislabeled (although lots of allardi are sold as chrysogaster.) Fuscocaudatus come out of the Seychelles and are unfortunately never collected.
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I received a response just this morning, but I had been busy and I didn't check my personal fb account. The fish that we have here is A.chrysogaster. I must congratulate you that this is one of the holy grails of the clownfish
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