sliily confused clownfish

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"Carols Nightmare" wrote in message
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hahahahaha, way to go **** head Carol, youscrewed up and neglected to
make a few changes in the forged headers etc. Your loosing it
carol............bye bye!


From: "Carols Nightmare" aka Roy Tristan Hauer
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Subject: Carol Gulleys coveted email addy.please do not
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Date: 21 Jan 2007 19:48:53 -0800
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"Tristan" wrote in message
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Its farily common behavior for clowns without a anemone to do that. I
have seen mine host in clams, feather dusters, pulsing zenia,
toadstool leathers, any and all kinds of mushrooms. The only problem
is, often it will lead to the demise or severe beating of the coral or
critter due to the clows buffeting actions. My one clown got so bad at
buffeting corals and was destroying most every coral inthe process,
so I removed him from the tank and sent him packing. In an huors time
he managed to uproot and tear up over 2 dozen assorted shrooms, a huge
yellow toadstool leather, rip the crown up on 2 nice large feather
dusters and literally get sand strewn all over the tank from his
wallowing out holes in the sand bed.....Now the clown is in a 12 gal
nano cube......in someone elses house.

I am not a big fan of anemones, such as condylactus, BTA and Hatian
etc. So thats why I did not have a "so called" proper anemone for the
clowns, but then again they really do not have to have them either, as
I had one clown that did perfectly fine without any.


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:33:30 -0500, that *other* annoying little troll
wrote:

I have a clownfish tha seems convinced that one my large hawaiian
feather dusters is some sort of funny looking anenome. She likes to
swim
through the feathers of it's crown, and I have seen her dropping food
to it.

At first the duster used to retract whenever the clown would swim
though
it's crown, but now it seems quite used to it.

If you put your hand in the tank and try to move the rock the duster
is
attached to, the clown will start nipping at your hand. If you don't
put
your hand near the duster, she leaves your hand alone.

There are two dusters right next to each other, and she only does this
with one of them. This one particular duster seems to be HER duster.
She
never does this with the other duster, which is maybe 3 inches ways
(close enough that the crowns touch) It's the only the female of my
pair
that does this - the male seems "skeptical"

Anyone ever seen this sort of behavior before? Clownfish trying to
host
with something that is non-cnidarian? I have heard of them hosting
with
ricordias, mushrooms, frogspawn, etc, but never a duster worm!



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

"that *other* annoying little troll" wrote in message
. ..
I have a clownfish tha seems convinced that one my large hawaiian feather
dusters is some sort of funny looking anenome. She likes to swim through
the feathers of it's crown, and I have seen her dropping food to it.

At first the duster used to retract whenever the clown would swim though
it's crown, but now it seems quite used to it.

If you put your hand in the tank and try to move the rock the duster is
attached to, the clown will start nipping at your hand. If you don't put
your hand near the duster, she leaves your hand alone.

There are two dusters right next to each other, and she only does this
with one of them. This one particular duster seems to be HER duster. She
never does this with the other duster, which is maybe 3 inches ways (close
enough that the crowns touch) It's the only the female of my pair that
does this - the male seems "skeptical"

Anyone ever seen this sort of behavior before? Clownfish trying to host
with something that is non-cnidarian? I have heard of them hosting with
ricordias, mushrooms, frogspawn, etc, but never a duster worm!


I had a rock in a dead spot that got lots hair algae
the darwin morph ocellaris actually tried to breed in it several times
and I have a pair that uses a fake jelly/plastic anemone
and yep go as far as to feed it

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:vOUrh.3970$E35.3742@trnddc02...
Add Homonym wrote:

If the smaller one you have is a smaller size female, and you add a
larger one which is almost certainly going to be female, you may get to
see a nasty fight.

No, you won't. The smaller will change sex, and that will be that.

George Patterson
Forgive your enemies. But always remember who they are.

I thought once a male turned female he couldn't turn back into a dude?
Have always added clowns small enuf to still be male
or the larger female can kill them tryin to get them to submit
but now I'm not so sure.......

swarvegorilla wrote:
"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:vOUrh.3970$E35.3742@trnddc02...

Add Homonym wrote:


If the smaller one you have is a smaller size female, and you add a
larger one which is almost certainly going to be female, you may get to
see a nasty fight.

No, you won't. The smaller will change sex, and that will be that.

George Patterson
Forgive your enemies. But always remember who they are.


I thought once a male turned female he couldn't turn back into a dude?
Have always added clowns small enuf to still be male
or the larger female can kill them tryin to get them to submit
but now I'm not so sure.......



Yah. Your understanding was the same as mine - once femaile, they stay
that way?