![]() You can see some books at the top right of the 1st pic to get a rough idea of size.) ![]() ![]() (That's large bubble wrap btw! Sorry I realized too late that I should have stuck something in there for scale. BTAs love to attach under shelves and in holes, so I ordered 100lbs of Key Largo Rock and 30lbs of Shelf Rock from Marco Rocks: but also need as much rock as possible for all those BTAs. ![]() I love the "bonsai" minimalist aquascaping look. I'd done a lot of research online on aquascapes and I had a vague idea of the kind of thing I wanted. (Actually.as time wears on, I'm perhaps hating it a little more every day!) Now comes the bit I equally love and hate. TBH they probably won't look like this, (Sanjay has just bred an Onyx x Midnight and the young all have their white bars) but it's fun to imagine. Here's a quick mockup of what their offspring "could" look like: Chances are he was a juvi when I got him, so I'm still bracing myself for things to get worse. I've noticed a few nips taken out of this fins, but he's always allowed to eat and he seems completely besotted with her. I *think* I've seen him do some submissive wiggles, but he's generally so wigglesome, it's hard to tell. Occasionally the female will turn and snap at the male, but he'll just scamper away before being allowed to return to her side. This seemed to work out well because since then they've rarely left each others side. I added the male to my tank a couple of days before the female arrived. They had B&Ws too, but I'd been admiring their Dominoes for sometime and thought it would be neat to try something a little different from Sanjay. The male was the smallest of 4 ORA Domino Occys at my LFS. They don't disappoint! She's actually gone even more black since I received her on Sept 13th -her dorsal fin is now completely black, so she's "officially" an Onyx. She's a C-Quest lineage one from SA and she's beeeeautiful!Īfter all the years of drooling over Onyx clowns online, I'd never actually seen one in person until I cracked the box open. I bought the female Onyx from Alpha Corals. I have a 20g Elos Mini running already, so I thought I'd get things rolling on that front. Now, black photons are pretty hard to come by, plus I didn't really like the notion of breeding siblings so I decided to have a go at pairing up a perc and occy myself. but for my dream of a shoal of black-white-orange clowns in a sea of Flame BTAs. but I'm thinking the B&W genes *might* let them hold their black coloration better in BTA hosts (I had a completely B&W occy in a RBTA in my first tank.) It's a long-shot. These guys are hybrids from a Onyx Perc female x B&W Occy male (story here: ) Then I found out about Sanjay's Photon Clownfish. I know I could choose another anemone, (esp as BTAs aren't natural hosts for percs,) but I love RBTAs as much as Onyxs! but I kept coming across threads from people complaining that their Onyxs had lost their black coloration in BTA hosts. My original plan was to get a pair of Onyx Percs to be the parents, (because I loooove Onyx! ). Must be able to feed heavily to lessen clown in-fighting (and promote BTA propagation).Must aquascape in a way that the dominant pair can claim a semi-secluded spot for themselves.Must have large number of BTAs before attempting to introduce more than 2 clowns.To have a set up like morbert with a family of clowns living together in a large colony of BTAs: įor this to happen I have set myself some rules: My previous tanks have been a standard 55g and a 20g Elos Mini. Here is "The Beast" (excuse the missing doors and canopy, they'll be on there soon) Well, what could a gal possibly do but buy it and start her dream tank?! I was just reefing along, minding my own nano-business when a local reefing couple put their gorgeous 144g Oceanic Half Circle tank up for sale.
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