SC#2: Most amusing beast in your tank

That is just too funny OG! Snail with a parachute... :laugh:


Mogurnda, here is a pic of the two clowns with the Chromis that thinks he's one of them. He also is a candidate as he like to swim backwards for some werd reason.

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I've had them for about a month now, picked them both up at the same time. The smaller one is a little more then half the size of the bigger one. The bigger one is further away from the camera so they do tend to look the same size.
 
They both look like percs to me. The patterns are different, but not out of the range I've seen. The main difference the texts cite is the number of spines in the first dorsal fin: 9-10 in percula, 10-11 in ocellaris.

It's hard to say who amuses me more. For a while, all the porcelain crabs lined up at dinnertime and waved like a chorus line.

The most entertaining is probably the mantis, though. His tank is in the room we use as an office, on a rack above a FW growout tank. I'll be working away at the computer or on the other tank and look into his rock pile, and he's always looking back, the beady eyes sweeping back and forth at odd angles. I swear he's planning to kill me and take over the bank account.
 
mogurnda said:
I swear he's planning to kill me and take over the bank account.
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Now that is funny. I am suprised that you still have a bank account! What with the cost of this hobby :Angel:
 
sorry the lack of depth perception ;-) lovely looking fish though, i guess i am in the same boat i was sold mine as "Percula Clowns" any other ways you can tell??

The funniest thing in my tank is the Coral Bandded shrimp! he often picks up the hermit crabs and trys to shake them out of thier shell, he looks like a cocktail waiter shaking a martini!
 
Fire Shrimp

The most entertaining would have to be the Fire Shrimp. It runs out everytime I put my hands in the tank, and seems to do backflips for food. They're not compatible with Coral Banded Shrimp, by the way.

The strangest behavior is the Damsel and Dwarf Fuzzy Lionfish sharing a cave.

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I have a Corl Banded Shrimp and two Fire Shrimp in a 55 gal tank and had no problems with them.

Interestingly enough though, my Cream Angel, Bi-Colored Angel and Niger Trigger all pull up to "The Fish Wash" where the two Fire Shrimp hang out. They come in for "Cleanings" and actually let the Fire Shrimp crawl all over then and clean, I presume, parasites. Kind of "The itch that I can't scratch" kind of symbiosis.
 
One thing I was hoping for when I got the tang last year was to see some "tang surfing," where the shrimp ride on tangs while they swim. The tang didn't seem interested in being cleaned at first, and then the shrimp were victims of a few hitchhiking mantises. It's time to try again now that I'm mantis-free (I hope).

Pterois, your fish almost sound like the lion and lamb lying down together. Except I guess nobody's ever likened a damsel to a lamb :rolleyes:
 
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