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Originally Posted by fishytime
Your not at all worried about your "big buck" clowns killing each other in the same tank? I would be.....
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Actually they have been extremely passive with each other. They really don't bother each other too much and both the larger clowns go over to the little ones frequently and there is no chasing around any more, they all rub up against each other and then back off to their respective corners of the tank.
Now the one thing I had been informed, which helps, is to always keep your clowns in pairs and they will be less likely to fight. Now if I had only one baby in there, there would more of a change for the male to take out the other male and there seems to be some good research to support this.
Either way, just in case, I do have a 25g set up just in case.
A think the success factor also came by keeping the babies within a container in the same tank, so the other two clowns were able to see them all the time over the last 5 months, and the younger clowns would do the submissive dance to them through the container.
In the wild, clownfish have tendancy to live in groups within a large anemone with one female, one male and a bunch of unsexed adults. I think within our aquarium standards, it depends on the size of the tank a person has and how the new fish are introduced.
Most hobbyists get their fish as adults and introduce them that why, however I think if you can get your hands on baby fish, less than an inch and raise them yourself within the same tank where the other fish can see them and not feel threatened by them, then there is a much higher chance of survival.