Adding second pair of clowns?

[splix]

I have a pair of black ocellaris that are still juvenile. They are around 6 mo. old. my LFS just got in some amazing looking picaso's that are mature, almost full grown.
I'm wondering if it's a bad idea to add the picaso's in with the current pair of clowns. I'm not sure either if my current black ocellaris's have established gender yet or not.

New clowns would be new to the tank but adults.
Current clowns have been with the tank for a long while but are still juveniles.

 

[vhuang168]

How big is the tank? What else is in it?

 

[Reef enthusiasm]

you might want to take every clown out, and then rearrange the rock in order to "create" a new environment where every clown is new, ive done this before and have had no ill effects so far (2 1/2 years)

 

[shifty51008]

Tbh i wouldnt try it, it will most likely work out fine for a while but will usually end up being 1 pair.

 

[D-Nak]

I consider the black Darwin ocellaris the equivalent of the maroon clown but for the percula/ocellaris species -- they're terribly mean and extremely territorial. I personally wouldn't mix black ocellaris with any other clowns, just like I wouldn't with maroon clowns. I know most will argue that black ocellaris are simply a color morph, but something about them makes them different, in a "I want to bite off your tail and kill you" sort of way.

 

[Jonathan1992]

I stick to the rule one pair per tank.