Mixing Clown species

[marie]

Both the maroon and the clarkii are known to get quite aggressive and people have enough trouble trying to pair them up, let alone mix them with other clown species.

Clowns are in the damsel family and even the cute, small ones can act like it

[marcingo]

Ok. Thanks for the info. So then I should be ok with black percs. skunk and false percs?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Unless your tank is huge (6' long for instance), you're taking a chance mixing clown species. I had a pair of ocellaris & a pair of gold striped maroons in my 6' 110g reef, but each pair stayed on one side of the tank & had a LR structure to call home. Still, it was iffy getting the 2 species to accept each other.

If you try it in your 4' tank, be prepared to pull out one species if the expt. doesn't go well.

Anthony

[ed99]

My experience is similar. I used to have 3 skunks and an ocellaris in a 92g bow front (about 3' across) and the skunks had the ocellaris cowering in the corner. They let him live but I don't think he was enjoying himself!

Ed

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Unless your tank is huge (6' long for instance), you're taking a chance mixing clown species. I had a pair of ocellaris & a pair of gold striped maroons in my 6' 110g reef, but each pair stayed on one side of the tank & had a LR structure to call home. Still, it was iffy getting the 2 species to accept each other.

If you try it in your 4' tank, be prepared to pull out one species if the expt. doesn't go well.

Anthony

[OCDP]

Originally Posted by ed99

My experience is similar. I used to have 3 skunks and an ocellaris in a 92g bow front (about 3' across) and the skunks had the ocellaris cowering in the corner. They let him live but I don't think he was enjoying himself!

Ed

I'm surprised you didn't run into problems with 3 skunks, let alone 3 skunks and an ocellaris !

[ed99]

I gave it a try since some reefers had reported being able to keep these 'relatively peaceful' clowns together but it didn't work so well for me. The three skunks set up their family and all slept in the BTA together but gave the ocellaris a hard time. I am now setting up a 6', 205gal tank and plan to keep a true perc pair together-hopefully there is enough room for everybody!

Originally Posted by OCDP

I'm surprised you didn't run into problems with 3 skunks, let alone 3 skunks and an ocellaris !

[marcingo]

Do you guys think you would run into these problems if you had one of each peaceful species together? ie: false perc, black perc, skunk. 1 of each