Maroon Clown?

[seashells]

I have a Gold strip Maroon ( about 3"), living in a LARGE anemone ( takes up 1/2 the tank) 29 gal Bio Cube. Also houses a coral beauty, green clown gobie, a Dart Fish, and a Bi-color blennie. They all interact well.

[DanG]

I have a 3 inch maroon, no problems with other tank mates, but as mentioned, it's not your tank anymore.
They are agressive, very agressive towards anything foreign in the tank. Mine never has a problem when the fox face or chromis are hanging out near any of the BTA's in the tank, but as soon as my hand is in there, be careful.
The maroon is also the reason I've gone barebottom in my new tank, too many sand storms. They're also fairly hard to pair, if you had planned on keeping 2 of them.

That being said, they are gorgeous fish and will naturally host in BTA's, so if you want to have the whole symbiotic relationship thing happening, they're an easy pair.

[andresont]

i just got a maroon clown yesterday and surprisingly he is not fighting ! not even with my percula clown. Thay may start tomorrow though you never know.
maybe the reason is that maroon is tank raised ORA type.

[Matty]

If I was to purhase one.. I would only keep the one clown that much I know. I had a rough experience with my first clownfish when I bought two youngsters together. The one quickly attacked the other.. to death I might add... I followed the rule of thumb and bought to juvinelle fish. Perhaps it was a territory thing... the one that was left became a really great pet for the next 5 years though!

I did not realize that Maroons were into making dust storms. My "sand" bed is similar to a gravel size in grade. Every so often I give it a stir to losen up any food or stuff so that it can be filtered out. A fish that would do that for me would rock lol!

Reading above I would hate for a fish to move things around in my tank.. so if I add in some mushrooms and zoos.. would a Maroon be tempted to move them where it thinks they should go? Well it stilll be comfortable without something to host in.. I do have plenty of LR..


Seashells.. is your coral beauty an angel then..? If so how does it do with your coral if you have any? I am looking into getting one.. but I want to keep mushrooms and zoos.. not sure if an Angel would eat them.. I hear they can be touchy about being in reef tanks.. though I hear Lamarcks are reef safe as well as a few others.

Thanks guys!

[seashells]

I have a Coral beauty in one tank & a cherub angel in another. I have not seen them touch any of the coral. The coral beauty is in with a large bubble, elegance as well as zoos& shrooms, even some lps.