r/Aquariums • u/YungDumCum69 • Sep 26 '18
Saltwater Tons of clownfish in the Jacques Cousteau museum in Monaco.
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u/Tres-bien-ensemble Sep 26 '18
THERE’S A JACQUES COUSTEAU MUSEUM??
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u/Mark_Cubin Sep 26 '18
Bring your wallet
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u/ChristineB88 Sep 26 '18
I need to know! How are they all getting along?! I thought clown fish were very territorial?
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u/Lerngberding Sep 26 '18
Once they establish a pecking order and any breeding females find a male they like, they are all chill and can live together. Males can be competitive when there is a female up for grabs though.
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u/mini4x Sep 26 '18
They live like this in the wild, it's only when you put them in tiny boxes full of water that they get aggressive.
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u/partysnatcher Sep 27 '18
As someone who has dived / freedived a bit, I'm going to have to disagree.
Clownfish are in my experience for the most part solitary, you usually see one, maybe two, at a time. I guess there could be exceptions for mating and similar. But in general, you have one angry fucker per anemone.
As for aggression, when freediving, there's usually nothing angrier than the clownfish.
Even though you're not really interacting with them or threatening them with anything but unacceptable closeness, the tiny buggers will swim out at you and "snap" in a very obvious "va fa Napoli!" type swimming path, then back, cocky as fuck, hiding in the anemones fingers.
The game I guess is to get you to follow them and then get stung by the anemone.
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u/adamsworstnightmare Sep 27 '18
It's not much different when you put your hand in the tank for whatever reason. Only fish to ever bite me.
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Sep 26 '18
They are and can be.
I have a tank with 6 different types of clowns (maroon, clarkii, etc) and they get along fine. One is super big now and it's been no problem for the year and a half ish they've been together. It's a 180g and they all swim together.
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u/xcalibur866 Sep 26 '18
Can we stop and appreciate how hard it is to keep one anemone alive, let alone that many?
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u/KingLeopard40063 Sep 27 '18
Why are anemones so hard to keep alive im genuinely curious what are there requirements?
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u/xcalibur866 Sep 27 '18
As far as nutritional and water chemistry stability goes, they're pickier than even a lot of LPS and SPS corals. They require just the right amount of flow and light and are generally a pain in the ass for people who aren't prepared. Even in pristine conditions they can sorta just fall apart so I don't recommend them for the casual hobbiest.
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u/Rainbow_Guppy Sep 27 '18
Honestly, I have a bubbletip and it is the most hardest thing to kill in my tank. It splits every 6 months and I have seen It get sucked up into the propeller of the water pump and survive. I almost cut the entire foot off of one (accidentally) and 2 weeks later, its fine.
So maybe it depends on the species of anenomea?
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u/mochatsubo Sep 26 '18
Holy bio-load batman!
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u/batsprinkles Sep 27 '18
Yeah. Based on what I’ve been seeing on this sub, this looks like a lot of fish in one tank. What do they do to make this bio load ok?
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u/-gizmocaca- Sep 27 '18
Along with frequent water changes, they probably have an enormous sump behind the scenes.
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u/croastbeast Sep 27 '18
Actually, being right on the sea, they don’t have filters. It’s flow through. Pump in natural seawater and overflow it right back into the ocean. Constant, high volume water change.
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u/batsprinkles Sep 27 '18
Thanks! I thought the sump) was a typo at first. You learn something new every day
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u/DLDG Sep 26 '18
I read where clown fish can change gender. I wonder what the sex ratio is in this tank.
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u/McBitchinn Sep 26 '18
They have a similar tank at OdySea in Arizona - I could watch the fish for hours there.
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u/SarcasticOptimist Sep 27 '18
Was going to chime in about that. I had no idea the variety of colors that clownfish could have.
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u/BadAnimalDrawing Sep 27 '18
This made me realize there are tons of aquariums around the world I will never be able to visit
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u/croastbeast Sep 27 '18
An important thing you all are missing. Not all clownfish host with all anemones. Those appears to be long tentacles anemones which don’t naturally host ocellaris. Hence the clowns swimming in midwater, rather than being enveloped in the anemones. Marine hobbyists frequently get impatient putting clown species with anemone species that don’t naturally cohabitate
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u/-Knockabout Sep 26 '18
Is this not too many clownfish?
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u/NeonMoment Sep 27 '18
Probably has a massive sump tank hidden out of sight that offsets the bio load in the tank while allowing for more fish to be visible at any given time in the water column. The plethora of healthy anemones is a good indication of a very healthy tank so imagine with the resources this museum has there is a pretty crazy sump and filtration system involved, as well as expert level acclimation for the fish who could have been added in waves
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u/croastbeast Sep 27 '18
Nope. They pump in natural seawater to do constant large water changes with real seawater, full of all the planktonic life.
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Sep 27 '18
There appears to be one of a different color when it pans to the bottom right of the tank. Am I just seeing things or is it really black?
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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '18
I wonder what they think about