Missing Clown

[ellebelle]

^agreed. Plus, if you get wild clowns, you have an increased chance of getting ones with Brooklynella. If you read the rareclownfish forums (which I do on occasion), it's really bad in wild caught ones.

 

[rookie07]

I have a frogspawn. also had elegance(dont know if that works)
I also had a sabea anemone... but only for about 2-3 weeks.
Getting an RBTA

 

[Killerdrgn]

The bigger of the two clownfish should be female, she could be laying eggs in some part of the rockwork that you can't see.

 

[ellebelle]

Well, even though ocellaris clownfish in captivity will often host other things, these are their natural hosts:

Bubble Tip Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)
Magnificent Anemone (Ritteri Sea Anemone)
Giant Carpet Anemone
Saddle Carpet Anemone (Haddon's Sea Anemone)

They are most likely to host in these, but might end up "settling" for something else after some time.

 

[marki24]

or u can get a long tentical anenome like the one in my avator

 

[Chapz]

Sucks u found the tang on the floor. Hope you have better luck with the clownfish.

 

[rookie07]

Still no clown.....It should be the female......Im hoping she is laying eggs somewhere....But no sign of her now...and its been 21 hours since I last saw her.......keep you fingers crossed.

 

[Killerdrgn]

If she is laying eggs you probably won't see her until the eggs rot which will take a few days. And since you do see the smaller clownfish i don't think they would have been fertilized so it would really hurt to try to find her in the tank.

 

[rookie07]

I have to assume she jumped and my cat found her.
oh well

 

[Chapz]

Sucks. I was hoping for better news from you.
I noticed this morning my small Clownfish was missing also. What a sad time it is.

 

[rookie07]

hope you have better luck with your clown....

 

[h20 freak]

Maybe that new pice of LR brought a malicious hitchhiker that scared the tang out and ate the clown=/just sayin seeing as no one else suggested it.Hopefully she is just:bunnies:.

 

[regal]

I have 2 clowns. One is missing-the bigger of the two.

The same thing happened to my female true percular. But that was due to the constant fight between her and the female maroon clown. Now I have this lonely 2" beautiful true percular clown hanging out on the top corner of a 400g tank. Are you interested in having him?

 

[rookie07]

Wouldnt I need two of the same type of clown? Mine is a Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris)
Yeah...my clown just hangs out at the top corner of my tank now...it sucks, like I have no fish.... Im getting 2 firefish(helfrichi or whatever it is) once my new cover is in place...

OH!!!!!!!!!!
Every once in a while(maybe 1 time per day) I here a clack,like something fell and hit the stand.....Ive looked at the new rocks(I have added 2, about 16 lbs in total) and there arent any holes in them, atleast not big holes, if a mantis did make its way into my tank, Ive noticed nothing gone except the 2 fish, 1 of which I found on floor, and the other is still MIA. So, I doubt its a mantis, or other hithhiker big enough to kill a fish. Ifound a few tiny starfish on one rock, about .5" across.

 

[regal]

Wouldnt I need two of the same type of clown? Mine is a Black & White Ocellaris Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris).

Orange with white strips and some black right? Same here but more black. True percular clowns tend to have more black in them.

 

[rookie07]

Mine are all black with white stripes...then a tiny bit of orange around the mouth

 

[regal]

Mine are all black with white stripes...then a tiny bit of orange around the mouth

Oh, that's different then.

 

[rookie07]

Here is a pic from when I first got them...Mouth is more black now...b/c they are mature

 

[ellebelle]

Some people have the black ocellaris with regular orange ocellaris. Don't know how they are doing though.

 

[h20 freak]

Colors don't matter, as long as their the same species(amphiprion occelaris)then they can theoretically breed.