Last night I collected her from the LFS, wrapped her in my fleece jacket (it's very cold here) and pedalled home - her ride was smoother than smooth peanut butter! We acclimatized her to the temp and water and then introduced her to Otello and sat back to watch them get to know each other. Antigone was hyper!
It was tense for us. We begged Otello to be gentle and nice but they do have to establish a pecking order and that is never pretty. They started to mellow out a couple of hours later and we were ready to head to bed but when we shut the lights in the flat off it got really dark (the lights were off in the tank from the introduction) and Otello became really pushy - we were worried for Antigone with so much stress for her. A had the brilliant idea to put the moon lights on and the blue glow calmed them down immediately so we left it on and went to bed.
I woke up and checked on them at about 1am and they were both swimming together in the corner where Otello usually sleeps - they looked very happy :) I shut the blue light off and watched them in the dark for a little while to make sure that they were getting along and then I went back to bed. A woke up 5ish and checked on them and they were still together in the sleeping corner - excellent!
When I got up I turned the low light on in the tank and checked Antigone for damage...she was looking fine :) And they were swimming together happily and Otello was not being a bully. Antigone does do the shake for Otello, so they have established their order. Woohoo! We thought it would be ok - Antigone is about a quarter to a third the mass of Otello - she looks tiny compared to Otello.
Here is your first look at her - she is a black clownfish and her face is a bit more orange than Otello's.
Here they are together (Otello in the front and Antigone in the back - you can tell by the orange faces, if not the size):
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