I'm pairing my Maroons today. uh oh - Page 2

WETFISH · #26 10/22/2007, 01:17 PM

I emptied my tank of fish to treat for ich.It took about a week longer to catch the male than the female, so they were seperated about a week. when they were reunited in the quaranteen tank they recognized each other immediatly.

JetCat USA · #27 10/22/2007, 01:18 PM

if you separate a pair Of Maroons even for overnight shipping you have to keep them separated for a few days while the female exerts her frustrations from the disturbance of she'll kill her mate. I've never intentionally separated a pair for any longer then that. your female had her cooling off time in the QT while the male was away so you didn't have a problem, I'm not sure what would happen if you kept them apart for considerably longer.

glockcoma · #28 10/22/2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally posted by JetCat USA
if you separate a pair Of Maroons even for overnight shipping you have to keep them separated for a few days while the female exerts her frustrations from the disturbance of she'll kill her mate. I've never intentionally separated a pair for any longer then that.

If your not getting this info from experience, then where are you reading this, you seem a little traumatized, with your doomsday ideas, this whole thread you have been warning everyone of death and dismemberment, if you follow the suggestions of people that have experience with this I think everything will be just fine, so calm down.

xtm · #29 10/22/2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by glockcoma
If your not getting this info from experience, then where are you reading this, you seem a little traumatized, with your doomsday ideas, this whole thread you have been warning everyone of death and dismemberment, if you follow the suggestions of people that have experience with this I think everything will be just fine, so calm down.

I agree 100%

russ49merc · #30 10/22/2007, 02:22 PM

yeah I thoiught he chewed and spit out my story fairly quick.

JetCat USA · #31 10/22/2007, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by glockcoma
If your not getting this info from experience, then where are you reading this, you seem a little traumatized, with your doomsday ideas, this whole thread you have been warning everyone of death and dismemberment, if you follow the suggestions of people that have experience with this I think everything will be just fine, so calm down.

my sincerest apologies for sharing of first hand experience, I'll kindly let you 6 month in the hobby experts take it from here.

glockcoma · #32 10/22/2007, 02:59 PM

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Originally posted by JetCat USA
if she chased him, you need to try another fish, you're not going to have any luck with that one.

If this is from your 30 year experience, I would rather listen to someone with 6 month experience cause you would probably need to try this over 10 times and where you gonna find that many GSM's, and a LFS that will accept that, anyways my suggestion was told to me by someone with less than a years experience and it worked perfectly, that why I love this site cause everyone is willing to help you out, and let you know their sucsses and failure.

JetCat USA · #33 10/22/2007, 03:18 PM

well after the male of one of my pair died about 4 yrs ago i went through about 20 males before i found a mate she accepted. again i apologize that my experience isn't up to your qualifications.

glockcoma · #34 10/22/2007, 04:14 PM

You should have came on here and posted for some help and you would have got advice from a newbie like me and I would have shown you how to do it with the first GSM, and you would have saved 19 Maroon's from unecessary stress

Crusty Old Shellback · #35 10/22/2007, 04:19 PM

WOW! Guess I just got lucky with mine. Have a large gold stripped marron clown that was hosting in my RBTA. I decided to try and add in a mate so I found a small gold stripe. Put him in the tank late that night. She didn't pay too much attenetion to him at first. Woke up the next morning to find them together in the RBTA. they've been in there together ever since and they don't stray far from the RBTA.

JetCat USA · #36 10/22/2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by glockcoma
You should have came on here and posted for some help and you would have got advice from a newbie like me and I would have shown you how to do it with the first GSM, and you would have saved 19 Maroon's from unecessary stress

they were Maroons and not gold stripes. I'll pass on your 'expert' advice and I'll make sure when you publish your clownfish expertise books I'll pass on those as well.

russ49merc · #37 10/22/2007, 04:58 PM

I did the same thing I guess we got really lucky

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Originally posted by blown63chevy
WOW! Guess I just got lucky with mine. Have a large gold stripped marron clown that was hosting in my RBTA. I decided to try and add in a mate so I found a small gold stripe. Put him in the tank late that night. She didn't pay too much attenetion to him at first. Woke up the next morning to find them together in the RBTA. they've been in there together ever since and they don't stray far from the RBTA.