Pairing Maroons help

Surfrat · Mar 5, 2016

my lfs brought in a pair of wild Maroons breeders that i decided to go ahead and purchase. I have several pairs of Maroons, Gold Flakes, Lightnings, and thought this would be a cool new adventure and I had a available tank. They were in a hyper salinity quarantine there at he lfs and I was told it would take about two weeks, no worries. At the 10 day mark I got a call saying things weren't going good and that the female was now beating up the male. They suggested I go ahead and bring them home and finish the quarantine in a more peaceful environment. I did this and they are alive but not happy. They are no longer bonded, the male I now have in a plexi glass refugium with an anemone that he is now hosting with. He has no body blows but he is really torn up fin wise. She is in a tank full of anemone and isn't hosting yet. She ate brine shrimp tonight but that's the first I've seen her eat. He eats everything presented.

Please I need any advice I can get to try to rebound these two or is once divorced they are done with each other. Thanks in advance for all advice

Bunnee911 · Mar 5, 2016

If you can put them together, but where she can't get to him it may help. Breeder net, eggcrate, etc to separate.

Surfrat · Mar 5, 2016

Thanks @Bunnee911. Yes I have the refugium suctioned cup in the same tank as her. It's a plexiglas unit with holes so they can see each other and smell but separated. He has a single bta with him that he's now sleeping in. She has several bta's to choose from but right now is hidden behind structure.

Everything I'm finding talks about juvies. These are far from juvies so not to sure. My plan as of now is to hope she settles down and host and then after a couple of days of that then reintroduce him by taking the side panel off the refugium opening it up but still giving him the structure of it

Surfrat · Mar 6, 2016

Update: she moved high in the water column last night and stayed outside the containment box for most of the late night and morning. I fed mysis this morning and she finally ate and ate well. She then moved back up and swam near him and I was seeing no signs of hitting the container and occasionally he would flutter on his side when she approached. Figured what the heck and open the containment door and after about 20 minutes he descended into a partially deflatted bta, the result:

I know it's early but I'm completely stoked. As I type this my male is moving freely moving from anemone to anemone and they look like howler monkeys fleeing each of parasites. Exactly what I've seen in all the vids I've been researching