velvetelvis
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I'm planning a biotope tank for a pair of A. bicinctus clowns, which I hope to have up and cycling within the next few weeks. It's a 50G with a 10G sump, and I'm going to keep it simple: just two juvenile bicinctus, a host RBTA of the colonial variety (down the road when the tank has been up and running for at least 6 months), and maybe a couple of corals and/or a clam.
I've kept clarkii (the melanistic SI morph) before and really enjoyed them, in spite of the female's propensity to go after any fish that was approximately her size and shape--I like the feisty species. Bicinctus don't seem to be as popular as a lot of other clownfish species, so I'm curious as to what other people's experience has been with them.
Are bicinctus pretty similar to Clark's? How are they towards tankmates? I ask because I would like to keep one other Red Sea fish with them: either a blackline fangblenny or a dottyback--probably an orchid or a Springer's--but not both. I figure the clowns and the fangblennies/dottybacks occupy different enough niches to avoid each other, but it never hurts to ask.
I've kept clarkii (the melanistic SI morph) before and really enjoyed them, in spite of the female's propensity to go after any fish that was approximately her size and shape--I like the feisty species. Bicinctus don't seem to be as popular as a lot of other clownfish species, so I'm curious as to what other people's experience has been with them.
Are bicinctus pretty similar to Clark's? How are they towards tankmates? I ask because I would like to keep one other Red Sea fish with them: either a blackline fangblenny or a dottyback--probably an orchid or a Springer's--but not both. I figure the clowns and the fangblennies/dottybacks occupy different enough niches to avoid each other, but it never hurts to ask.
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