1 pair black ocellaris and 1 pair percula in a 240?

[brentj]

I have a pair of about 1.5" Picasso-ish percula (tank raised) that I'm about to release from QT into a 6 ft 240g tank.

We'd love a pair of black ocellaris also in the tank.

I've read the FAQs and other postings but would be interested in any input from those with experience as to whether this will end well or be a disaster.

Some say introduce them to the DT at the same time; which I guess I could do if I helpd the clowns in QT for another month while I QT another pair. But if that's not likely to help, it'd be easier not to.

Are ocellaris and perculas particularly high or low on the aggression scale? Does it help if they're both young pairs?

Thanks to anyone willing to share any insight based on experience. My LFS is supposed to be getting black ocellaris in a few days...

 

[arteaction]

I have a pair of mature mated ocellaris. They're anemone died. Had an emergency problem with the tank and Needed to get all the fish and (fortunately Im just starting with coral) the few corals all out.

My daughter has two juvenile ocellaris in her tank. No amenome. I put them all together and figured if there was a prob then I'd move them to the isolation tank. To my surprise they all get along wonderful. So much so I'm going to leave them all together and skip any anemones. Im getting her a bigger tank for them.My daughter is loving it because she now has a nemo family.

I did a lot of research and My understanding is if you have a large enough tank like you do and you want them to host an anenome then you should put the anemone at one end of the tank and the other host at the other. If they both have their own and their own territory they should be fine.

I am not sure about a true and false pair.If you have another tank you can try it and if it doesn't work put the new ones in it. A frag tank perhaps.
Good luck. Hopefully some one else has a more specific experience with the two types.

 

[Kmiec123]

It's my experience that nothing is in stone in this hobby, try it and see. Or so to the Shedd and see their tanks with multiple pairs or clowns. Just give it a shot and keep an eye on them, they may battle it out a little then settle down in there own turfs. If they don't work out take one pair out. Clowns are pretty easy to net anyway.

They may switch partners on you, so watch for that, if you don't want that to happen. But then again, if you don't want it to happen, it probably will. So don't think bad thoughts.

Hope this helps.
Carl

I lov those that think outside the box.

 

[rkelman]

Percs are fairly high on the aggressiveness scale. Ocellaris are very low on the scale. They might be ok. In my 90g the Percs were beating up the Ocellaris pretty badly.