My Daughter And Her Clowns
One of the several tanks in our house is my daughters 24 gallon aquapod. She has been very specific about what she wanted in it. As far as fish go, she knew she wanted two Clown Fish. As luck would have it we have a breeder in our area (goto www.homegrownclowns.com to check out Jay’s breeding setup) so good healthy Clown Fish are easy to come by. As you may know, in the wild Clown Fish have a symbiotic relationship with certain anemones (we’ve all seen Finding Nemo right?). The Clown Fish develop an immunity to the sting of the anemone and “host” in it, which provides a safe place for them to hide. Meanwhile the fish will venture out of the anemone and find food which they will bring back “home”. The fish get a safe place to live and the anemone gets a dinner, delivery style! So, it came as no surprise when my daughter said her Clowns needed something to host in. We did some research, and decided a Bubble Tip Anemone would be the best choice in terms of being easier to keep (all anemones are on the more advanced list) and also the most likely to host the fish. It took about two days for the fish to decide they were interested in the anemone, but when they did they took too it like glue. They now bring it food at feeding time and both fish snuggle in deep to sleep at night. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this little video must be worth ten thousand. Enjoy!
Happy Reefing!
some store credit owed to me from a local fish store for a mistake that was made on some bulbs I purchased, but not nearly enough to equal a clam. You’ve maybe read some of my other posts about Pat, the used car salesman of saltwater fish? Well, I’m talking to Pat (via messaging on a forum I frequent) when he says, help, call me asap!!! Come to find out he had 14 boxes of livestock from the South Pacific and Hawaii arriving at the airport in about an hour and no way to get it all. So, long story short, we loaded it all up in our SUV and hauled it out to his store for him. As repayment (along with my existing store credit), I scored one of the best looking Maxima clams I’ve seen in a while.