Awesome Pickup from LFS: E. African Sebae Clowns

[reefin101]

Picked these dudes up...chose them over a single Bali Sebae Clown. What ya think? Also...it appears my Coral Beauty is sick with the ich...is it possible that the clowns may get it...or if they are healthy could they avoid the ich?

 

[GSchiemer]

Picked these dudes up...chose them over a single Bali Sebae Clown. What ya think? Also...it appears my Coral Beauty is sick with the ich...is it possible that the clowns may get it...or if they are healthy could they avoid the ich?

It is likely that the clowns will get ich as well. Although they aren't particularly susceptible to ich, the stress of handling and acclimating will work against them. This is a good example of why quarantine aquariums are frequently recommended.

A related note: It makes no sense to buy wild-caught clownfish these days. Captive-bred species are commonly available and generally do much better in aquarium settings than their wild-caught counterparts. They acclimate better, are more disease resistant, eat prepared foods, and they're all juveniles! In addition, when you purchase captive clowns, you don't impact wild populations. There's a good chance that the anemone those two clowns occupied was eaten by butterfly fish shortly after the clowns were removed.

Greg Schiemer

 

[LFS42]

what I get out of the post is that you bought new fish when you had Ich in the tank.
If that is true, the 1 thing aquariums teach is patience.
Only after everything is healthy and thriving should you add anything else.

I hope I read the post wrong for the sake of the new fish.

 

[L.Foley]

Those are A.allardi, very nice clowns. They develop nice blue stripes as they get older/larger. Just watch for brooklynella, it will kill them in a couple of days if you let it go.

Leland Foley
Mainstream Aquatics