Allardi Clownfish

[orcafood]

I am thinking about buying two 1 in Allardi clowns in the next week or so to put in my 90g reef. I have a few questions.
1. Are these fish caught with chemicals or nets usually?
2. What meds should I have handy?
3. In your guys experience, are these agressive fish?
4. If I get the two 1 in Allardi, what are the chances that they will pair?
5. Right now in my tank I have a royal gramma, firefish, one spot foxface, regal tang, mandarin dragonet, lawn mower blenie, and a bangaii cardinal. Would there be enough room for a pair of Allardi in their?
6. If there isn't enough room, what clown pair could I keep? I really just want to get a pair of clown to go in my RBTA.

 

[orcafood]

No one has an Allardi Clownfish?

Do you guys think Allardi Clownfish or Blue Striped Clownfish are more visually pleasing?

 

[orcafood]

Does anyone even have an Allardi clownfish they could describe or show pictures of maybe?

 

[MIKE ALERS]

i love my allardi pair.they also have very cool colors and they get along with other clownfish.

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[orcafood]

Wow, very nice pair Mike! Where did you get them?

 

[shabreeson]

1. usually all are wild caught
2. formuline, and praziaquil
3. depends, but mine is not aggressive
4. don't know
5.probably enough room(you didn't indicate size of fish)
6.look at the faq at the top of this forum they have a list of clowns that will host a rbta
7. usually shipping does not treat blue stripe clown too well, plus they get really big(may be aggressive because of that).
8. I have an A. Allardi clownfish it's 3.5 inches, eats like crazy, and was actually hard to determine what species it was, blue stripe or Allardi. I think that it's hard to go wrong with an Allardi.

 

[orcafood]

Ok, thanks shabreeson that just pushed me over the edge to ordering an Allardi or maybe a pair.

Here are the sizes of the fish in the 90g already:
royal gramma(2in)
firefish(2in)
one spot foxface(4.5in)
regal tang(3in)
mandarin dragonet(2.5in)
lawn mower blenny(4in)
bangaii cardinal(2in)

 

[shabreeson]

well, I think that you could do it. post this in the reef fishes forum to get their 0pinion on the fish stock. it's very possible they might not like the tang in there cause they do get up to a foot (a lot of fish waste).

 

[orcafood]

Yea, I know the tang may get big. But I doubt that mine will reach over 7 in anyways, I have had large fish before and they just never get as big as they could for me. If it does get too big, I will just give it to this local reefer who has a 300g.