RDB Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Does anyone have any experience, or educated guesses, as to whether a black false-perc will get along with an ordinary orange one? My black one seems lonely but I would like a variety. Link to comment
brahm Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 i've seen mixed pairs, as long as the species is the same. Link to comment
Aiptasia Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 There shouldn't be any problem in mixing them. They may pair off, they may not. Clownfish are one of the rare fish that can spontaneously change sex in response to a lack of males/females in the environment, but they usually do this as juveniles. If you wanted to pair them up for possible breeding, get a juvenile clown as a potential partner. Link to comment
RDB Posted March 8, 2004 Author Share Posted March 8, 2004 Breeding him would be ironic since the only reason I have him is that the person who ordered him (and some other black ones) to the lfs was a breeder and left him because he didn't want to breed one who was missing the middle stripe on one side. Link to comment
brahm Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 Just because your fish doesn't have a middle stripe doesn't mean the offspring will be the same. Link to comment
matt the fiddler Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 male to female change of sex. with 2 girls one will get killed- once they are a girl they stay that way forever.. make sure you either have a lowere in teh pecking order non domant fish from a established family.. or a young clownfish that hasn't had time to hit sexual maturity. a mature clownfish left alone turns into a girl. [so basicly you haeva girl already] Link to comment
brahm Posted March 8, 2004 Share Posted March 8, 2004 that depends on how long he has had the fish, and how old it is. Link to comment
RDB Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 The guys at the LFS said that he/she was about 2 months old, I've had him a week. Right now he/she is a little over an inch long. They have 1 1/2 month old false percs from a local breeder that I was hoping to get. Here's a pic. Link to comment
maroonclown Posted March 11, 2004 Share Posted March 11, 2004 Its still a male. The get bigger than that when they change sex. Link to comment
1fish2fish Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 if it is truly only about 2 months old then it should still be a male. The false percs and the true perc may pair up, but I wouldn't expect any offspring out of the match. As far as the half bar goes it is a trait that many agree is not hereditary, but rather comes about as a result of water quality and eary diet during the larval and early fry stages. I have actually witnessed this in my clowns. When raised completely on recirc water they had a misbar rate of about 80%, but when I switched to raising them on flowthrough water they had a misbar rate of about 20%. This is anecdotal of course as I don't have actual data and stats to back this up. Just an observation. Link to comment
matt the fiddler Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 "if it is truly only about 2 months old then it should still be a male" auctually- it would be sexless. the cue to turn male, is a domanat female, without a lack of a male... cue to turn female is the lack of one.. the research i have seen shows that they jump from sexless directly to female. [if they are mature] other than that- they stay sexless.. Link to comment
jtsam Posted March 27, 2004 Share Posted March 27, 2004 he he, maybe you'll come up with some crazy half bar orange black fish.....that would be amazing.... Link to comment
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