More than one type of clowns in a tank??
 

Hi need some advice,
Just purchased an already established 180gal tank, once everything has cycled, and we're ready to transfer our corals and fish from our 90gal to the new tank, plus the original fish from the tank (currently in our spare tank). Waiting till we can introduce everyone at the same time. Our question is, we have three percula's roughly 7 or 8 years old in our current tank, and we have some newly aquired anenomes, can we introduce a different type of clown into the tank at the same time? Ones that might be attracted to the Sebea and/or long tentacle anenome.

My Gold stripe maroon would not tolerate it...

if you have a pair it might be a little difficult.

I dont think it would be a good idea, if your clowns are that old I dont think they will like any other clowns comming in the tank, I tried it with my clowns and didnt work out well. You have a much larger tank tho so it could work !

Not usually a good idea.

Clowns don't seem to tolerate other species, even in a large tank. Percula/False Percs/Skunks may be ok, since they are less aggressive, but most other species are not so friendly to neighbours.

Anthony

We thought it would work, each on their own side of the tank (in a 5ft with center island) but eventually had to remove the one pair, as they were picked on.

Thanks for the advice
 

That's pretty much what we thought, we were just hoping that with this 6' tank they might stay in their own territory. Oh, well. Anyone had any luck introducing a couple of different tangs in a tank at the same time?

well, i start with a pair false perc in my 150 gallon on the right hand side and then in couple months I put pair of Black Onyx True Percula on the left and a Tomato clown in the middle. The reason i can do this because I bought them along with their anomonies/frogspawn host.

For the first couple days, the female of false perc show aggression to true percs but got chased aways because it is 2 vs 1 battle. And now, one pair is on the left and others is on the right. The big clown tomato is in the middle and is the boss, she shows aggression to both pair of clowns when they swim to middle of the tank and eventual chase them back to their hosts. It has been 4 months now and no loss in fin or whatsoever, just a little bit chasing here and there by the clown tomato when dinner time.

I am very happy with my tomato clown because she helps separating these clowns.

Good luck :-)

I tried this not too long ago on a 4 foot long 125 gallon tank. I had an established pair of Ocellaris Clownfish since the summer, and tried adding a pair of skunk clowns. Initially, they Ocellaris Clownfish divided the 2 skunks apart, and started going after each one individually. After the first day though, the skunks got back together, and only the female Ocellaris Clownfish was going after the 2 clownfish. This went on for quite a while until eventually, i removed the female Ocellaris Clownfish. The male Ocellaris Clownfish could care less that the skunk clowns are in there, and the skunks vice-versa. I'm going to try adding a small Ocellaris Clownfish to pair up with the one that is currently in there.
I gave this a try because I read on reefcentral about people doing it successfully. It was tense when the fighting was going on and my midas blenny was trying to play referee with little success.

my maroons don't have any problem with my ocillarous

any recommendations??
 

My breeding female clown has just decided she likes the white sebea anenome in the last two days. So we thought we try and put the LT purple anenome at the other end of the 6' tank and the sebea and the coral that they lay their eggs on at the other end of the tank. Keep in mind we haven't put anyone in the 180 yet. Any recommendation on what type of clowns to try, if they don't get along after a few days we'll just transfer them to our 48gal. as we're going to sell the 90gal once everything is transfered.