this is the much awaited replacement to my much missed clowns.
a golden wrasse.
this is the mother pulsing soft coral,
and this is one of her may babies, all doing very well.
and this is my red hermit crab.
he hasent changed his shell once,even though he has shed his exo once.
unlike the blue leged that has changed his shell 5 or 6 times.
enjoying the shows even if im at work every sunday, as i can catch them later in the week when it suits.
thanx to you all, and to thoes that call in to ask the questions.
most excelant! we were going to buy a colony soon,
this one mouth has grown from scratch, do we know how long it will take for it to start spreading?
ta.
It depends on the tank and conditions, of course. In my experience, if you want them - they grow slowly. if you don't want them - they grow like weeds!
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Some of mine will take pieces of mysis. Next time you have your trukey baster in your hand and are feeding see if your's will eat. If it will feeding will encourage the budding of daughter polyps.
just a little update.
getting to see much more of the coral crab, iether he is getting bigger or braver? not shure wich. but he appears to eat the live rock! this is going to get exspensive if he grows! the first time i saw a pluem of dust in the water, i thought that their was a spawning going on ? but now i realise it was "the claw" eating.
had to get up at 5.30am in -1. to catch the tide right at the harbour mouth
the golden wrass takes dried food , to whit i am very relived, as he desimated what i thought was an over abundance of live food throughout the tank.
the feather duster is moving around but after several moves appears happy with the spot he is in now.
it still suprises me at the abundance and variety of life, that you get. and not having to spend to much. (so far!)
still enjoying the live casts. even if i can only listen in retrospect.
the good thing of doing a water change, was the discoveries that followed.
my tank has a corner box that has a small gap running up it? very small inverts run up and down the gap as a safe haven. last night after the water change i spoted a a small (didy) star fish, not sure what type as its only 1.5mm from center to tip of one leg!
my lovely claw is no longer singular as today i noticed that , their were three claws ? the extra one coming from a compleatly differant hole! after a long watch one crab moved off to anouther rock while the shy single claw continued to feed. they were both grabing at food paticals that the wrasse missed.
hi their is a view that the anenomie help clowns by killing off
paracites/bugs , ive only read this once , and not here? and im wondering is this
just a very plausable wives tale or is their truth in it?
iam happy to have just an anenomie and a pair of clown fish to add to what is in the tank. as i hope this will be enough to hold the intrest of my kids.
my tank has so far.............
1 golden wrass
1 cleaning shrimp
2 black coral rubble crabs
1 blue leged hermit
1 red leg hermit
1 medium mushroom sft coral
1 medium ( spreding) sft pulsing coral
2 mini turbo snails
1 micro brittle star
2 mini clams
I have not heard that about an anemone. I believe that the anemone offers the clown protection from predators. What lighting setup do you have on your tank? Anemones that clowns will host in need a strong light source.
30w t8 marine glow.
3ft long x2.
with reflectors.
depth to sand from lights with an air gap of 1.5 inch. is 14" and a sand bed of 3" for the critter to get its foot in.
so far very disapointed with the lfs as they are iether very limp or no brown (this is the internal alge coulor ?).
and should you always ask for the rock they are atached to? as i dont want to get a healthy specimine and then get it hurt while being removed from the shop!
also my son likes the bright florecant green/yelow bubble tip. but the ones he likes have no brown in them see above question.
carpets change coulor depending on the depth and light! what is the coulor of the deaper ones ? as even though i would love a blue i doubt if my lighting is good enough.
i'll invest in some blue spounge at some point, to give me the variety in coulor in the tank.
what about the bright white with pink tips ( anemone) their tip's allways seam bulbous and ridged. do you think they would work with my lighting?
i think that you need to upgrade your lighting before attempting ANY anemone. the 30w lights are no where near intense enough to keep one alive (over a period of time), much less have it thrive in captivity. i would recommend at LEAST t5 lighting to successfully keep an anemone.
i have never heard of anemones cleaning parasites either. the anemone protects the fish and the fish feeds the anemone. it is a win win relationship between them.
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Bobby's quite right, you will need more intense lights for an anemone. The ones that may need the (relatively) lowest amount of light are bubble tips. I have a rose BTA. When I got it 18 months ago it was a little guy. (Click on the pix under my signature.) Here it is today.
It is 10" (25cm) in diameter!
bobby ,
thanks for your imput, just found this artical on the web. i like it because it sugests that their is a range of likes and dislikes that anemonies have.
as i have three very small self seaded anemonies, i think i will try the "saddle back" as his matches my lighting purfectly. ill keep you posted on my sucsess.
one day i might adventure into strong lighting and hard corals. but for the moment i will stay with my thriving soft corals. and the diversity i have. you never know the lady of the house might let me have a second tank in a year or two?
wich would definately be a bigger and brighter one.
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