Mixing Clown fish

[fishoholic]

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]

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.

[Slipstream]

Yah, id take the Anem as well, id also think about getting your lone clown a partner. They like having friends better than being alone.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Slipstream

Yah, id take the Anem as well, id also think about getting your lone clown a partner. They like having friends better than being alone.

The saddleback clown might kill off any male partner I could add in the tank for her, and I'm positive if she didn't do him in my perc.'s would. They already killed a poor cleaner shrimp that got to close to their (host) zoas. I believe the only reason the clowns aren't attacking each other is #1-they were added to the tank at the same time #2-It's a 230g tank and the things they host in are on opposite sides of the tank.

FYI even though my saddleback clown is larger then my perc.'s It's my perc.'s that are vicious. Anytime my coral beauty (even though he's bigger) gets to close to the perc.'s zoas he receives a nip in his fins or body. Whereas whenever any other fish come near the saddleback and her anemone she just stays in it and doesn't try to personally attack anyone, however once and awhile she will try to hit them with the arm of the anemone if they get too close.

For now we are not going to take our friends anemone, we literally have no where to put one. Our tank is very full of softies and lps and I would hate to see any of our corals get stung by a wondering anemone.