Clownfish Pairing Question
Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:09 PM
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Matt Pedersen's Lightning project is what got me thinking about this. To summarize he is attempting to force the Lightning to remain a male by keeping it in an aquarium with a much larger female (separated by egg crate). At this juncture he is looking for a suitable PNG female for him and is not intending to permanently pair the Labrador with the Lightning. So assuming one wanted a pair of clownfish would it be better to take 2 juvenile clowns and place them in a tank together, let them bicker and try to reign supreme until the lesser clown submits. The dominate will become the female and the other the male. This is unless the bickering becomes so intense that 1 of them is killed or flat out rejected as a suitable mate. Or to take an existing female and a juvenile and pair the two up for the purpose of making the juvenile the male and then once the juvenile is a male to remove him from the female and put that male in with a new juvenile thus forcing the male to turn into a female and the new juvenile to become the male in the permanent pairing. My thinking is to go with the second option as the juvenile will submit to the much larger and dominant female with a minimal bickering and that this will work the same way in the permanent pairing. Would this option be preferred, would it speed up the pairing process?
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