vendredi 4 mars 2016

Starting Over - My goal to have 2 clowns host

So long story short my 75g tank was overtaken by the nasty ich disease cause by a yellow peel damsel fish I had put in the tank which I wasn't aware was a damsel. He stressed out all the fish, killed 2 of them and then the outbreak happened and wiped my whole tank out.

After all my livestock were obliterated I turned my temperature up to high 80s and lowered my salinity down to 0.010 and kept it that way for 10 weeks. I just introduced a juvenile percula clown yesterday (I believe it is a false percula) to test the water out and make sure there is no more ich left, since you can't test for ich disease and the clown only cost me $10 I figured this was the best option.

It's been 24 hours now and the clown seems happy as can be :banana: so it is looking good. I'm going to wait a week and make sure everything is still going well and will be introducing a 2nd clown to pair them up. I would really like to get a carpet anemone and hopefully get them to host and am wondering what the best way that will give me the best success rate.
This is what my current plan is: given that I see the clown looks healthy and no signs of ich, I will introduce a new clown and give that however long it takes for them to warm up to each other and "pair up." Once that bond is established I'll add a carpet anemone into the tank which I am hoping that since they will be the only 2 fish in the tank, and being at a young age they will take right to it.
Is my plan of attack ideal? I was also thinking of introducing the carpet anemone first before adding a 2nd clown, or should I stick to the original plan? If the carpet anemone is hard to get these false percula type clown fish to host, what is another anemone I could get that will have a higher success rate?

Is there anything else besides adding the 2nd clown and the anemone in a certain order that I could do that would further aid in the successful hosting goal? Any advice you guys can offer would be much appreciated!


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