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Yesterday I bought some corals from another fish keeper. The pics are terrible, but I need to show them to you still. I am sooo satisfied with my new inhabitants. Any ID is of course welcome, but I am mostly in need of showing off.

Mushrooms:




Zoas:


And this one. It's been moody since it moved, but has now finally started to open.

BTW, I also bought another clownfish to live with the one I have. As it is an aggressive species (A. frenatus), I was nervous when I released the new one. I had expected some chasing around. But so far they are doing very well together. They are rarely seen more than 4'' apart. When I released the new one, and the "old" one finally saw its new room mate, it was so happy! It hasn't left the other's side since. Both clowns had been alone in the shop (two different LFSs), I don't know for how long, so I guess they were lonely. At least now they seem to be very happy to be together. I love seeing fish being happy! I hope they establish as a pair. It's a beautiful clownfish species!

congrats on the corals and fish.


Any chance of a picture of the fish also?

I am trying! But clowns just don't stay still!

Aww, what a cute love story! I would also love to see pics of them.

Those green star polyps are moody but will make a nice mat of green "grass" when they come out.

Are the clowns 2 different species?

No, the clowns are both A. frenatus. I hope they will make a breeding pair some day.

The new clown really don't want to have its picture taken. These are the best I could do, which is still pretty lousy. The large one is the new clown, and the small is the one I already had.

They are really beautiful!

I haven't had any luck on getting and ID on my mushrooms (I've tried several places - so far not a single answer at RC), so I ask you again: does anyone know what mushrooms I've got, and what requirements they have to lighting and current?

I don't expect anyone to ID my zoas from that terrible pic, but if anyone happen to know them anyway, I would be happy to know.

They will be a pair. One always changes sex.

Pufferpunk wrote:They will be a pair. One always changes sex.

Wow I wonder what they have biologically that allows them to do that? That is a really awesome factoid. I love this place-- I learn something new all the time

Clowns do that? That is incredible genetics

They are sequential hermaphrodites, they start out as male, but when pairing, the larger more mature one assumes the female gender. If the female dies in the pair in a group, the largest male will take on the female gender and pair up with the surviving male

Im more shocked that the larger one becomes female instead of the small one