clownfish advice

[MadCow]

I currently have a pair of black australians in a 90gal, my dilemma is that I have a small maroon (1/2) size of the black male in a seperate 10gal.

Is there a way to add the little guy in the larger tank without having him having the heck beaten out of him? I know if I do put him in, I'll never get him out, we had to tear apart a 15gal to get him out to my 10gal.

any help would be appreciated.

-mc

[Ian]

I don't know but I can give the black pair a new home if need be:biggrin:

[dsaundry]

The little one would most likely get killed, unless you have tons of rock for him to hide..all that said , stranger things have happened..if it was mine I would sell or give away the little one...2cents worth:biggrin:

[MadCow]

I have about 90#'s of live rock in there, lotsa hiding spaces, just don't want him to spend his life hiding.

He came from my GF's tank (15gal) that had lotsa corals, but kept getting a bacterial infection from rubbing on something (lost both pectoral fins).

I'd give him out to someone if I knew he would have a good home. he is very personable and friendly.

Bot tanks I have have pairs of blacks in them, and I would hate him to get hurt too badly.

-mc

[dsaundry]

Unfortunately I think he would be hiding lots...just the nature between clowns sometimes. Still anything can happen in the fishworld...they may just pick their respective zones and be just fine, however if you do try to introduce them , make sure you reposition a bunch of rock and maybe introduce him at dusk so that if they do go at each other it will be for a minimum of time. Good luck:biggrin:

[fishytime]

Could try the mirror trick too. IMO its rare but not totally impossible for two different types of clowns to co-exist.

[ponokareefer]

I tried to keep a pair of true perc's with a pair of cinnamon clowns. The true perc's were in the system first, and were larger. Everything was fine for about 6 months until the cinnamon clowns grew larger than the true perc's. The cinnamon clowns would leave their side of the tank and beat up the true perc's for a while, pushing them out of their anemone, before going back to their side of the tank. I tried the mirror trick with no luck. :sad: I tried this in a 125 gallon system with about 150 pounds of live rock(lots of hiding places), and 3 anemones. Each pair of clowns had their own anemone, but the cinnamon's eventually claimed all of them, and I had to get the true perc's out after unsuccessfully trying to get the cinnamon clowns out. I wouldn't recommend trying to mix clowns in a system.

[paddyob]

from what i understand, maroons can get big and nasty. would worry about the beautiful and pricey blacks. is it worth the risk on a "chance" they might be ok?

[rkelman]

Maroons and Ocellaris (black or otherwise) is a bad idea. When the Maroon is small the O's will beat it up. When the Maroon gets big it will kill the Blacks. Not a good situation in any case.

[MadCow]

Yeah, I though of that too.

Think I'll try to find a much smaller maroon, and see if they will get along.

Just don't want him living his life alone in a small 10gal