Mixing Clown fish

digital-audiophile · #1 12-15-2007, 02:30 PM

I had problems mixing clowns in a 90. I tried Tomatoes and Ocellaris and the poor false percs got their asses handed to them on a daily basis. I remeved the Ocellaris for thier own safty. A 230 is a great deal bigger than a 90 though so your experience might be totally different.

kjcote · #2 12-15-2007, 04:13 PM

we have a 200 gallon tank with a pair ocellaris and a pair of black and white clowns, they rarely bother each other. each have their own anenome to host in and are spaced about 3' apart.

Myka · #3 12-15-2007, 04:33 PM

A friend of mine has a 120 with a pair of wild true percs, and a pair of black oscellaris. Each pair has a host anemone, and are spaced about as far apart as they can get in that 4' tank. I think if you can get an anemone for the second pair to host, then there shouldn't be a problem.

fishoholic · #4 12-15-2007, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Myka

A friend of mine has a 120 with a pair of wild true percs, and a pair of black oscellaris. Each pair has a host anemone, and are spaced about as far apart as they can get in that 4' tank. I think if you can get an anemone for the second pair to host, then there shouldn't be a problem.

Our friends anemone just split and he said he would give one to us, so I think we'll try getting the second pair to host in it and then when we set up the new tank we'll put the clowns on opposite ends.

Myka · #5 12-15-2007, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

Our friends anemone just split and he said he would give one to us, so I think we'll try getting the second pair to host in it and then when we set up the new tank we'll put the clowns on opposite ends.

...and hope the anemones like the positions you choose for them!! :P Dang anems moving around could cause a clown war.

fishoholic · #6 01-05-2008, 04:44 PM

Thought I'd give an update. Our large saddle back clown is on one side of the tank with his anemone host and our 2 perc.'s are on the opposite side with their zoas host. The clowns so far have barley noticed each other, none of them want to move that far away from their hosts. Still debating on weather or not to take our friends anemone for the perc.'s to try host in, or just leave them be with their zoas. Also the odds of our friends anemone staying on the opposite side of the tank from our other anemone as well as the odds of our perc.'s even hosting in it... well it all seems like fairly slim chances to me. Not sure I want to risk it.

Nauticus · #7 01-05-2008, 05:25 PM

The smaller clowns like Darwin's percs and ocellaris are generally more peaceful and will not stray as far from their hosts. I do not know much about saddlebacks as I have never had them but if they are anything like cinnamons or tomatos they can be a bit more agressive and willing to wander when they get larger.
I think though since the ratio is two to one the saddleback should be more solitary and have less leverage.

As for the anenome, take it. The percs will not necessarily host in it. I have had clowns choose frogspawn and hammer corals over and above the good old anenomes.