Advice needed, starting populating a 300g tank with a clownfish harem

[O.Rubin]

hi everyone,

i have a 300g that planned to be fish only for lots of rock and a huge sump and refuge.

i want to populate 20-30 clownfish harem as a start, the rest will be mostly angels and tangs.

i understand the best way is to put them together and from the specie? like only true perc. is that true?

also my lfs has mostly wild caught and offered me a good price on them.
are they better than captive bred? who has the best chance to live peacefully in a harem?

thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[Wandering]

Do you think 20 or 30 will be enough? The bulkreefsupply harem used 30 in their 120 gallon. I would worry that they would manage to pair up and fight.

Preferably, having them all from the same clutch would be best. Better than wild caught.

 

[O.Rubin]

i didnt understand, are you saying that its better to have more so they wont pairup?
if the wild ones are not good ill order a big batch from a captive bred farm shouldnt be much problem

 

[Wandering]

Right, the more there are, the less of the chance that they will pair up and become territorial and aggressive. And the more distributed any fighting will be.

 

[Grayhead]

Go to BRS and watch the video. Will answer most of your concerns

 

[biecacka]

Captive bred, same clutch. Get a lot, would be my suggestion.

Corey

 

[TheCamaroShow]

I say 60-70

 

[alton]

I had a friend that did this, once they started pairing it went south. He also had a 300DD and plenty of anemonies