Can I mix and match?

[Giga]

I am trying to get some colorful fish and I love clowns. I want a maroon,black and teardrop clown? My tank is 24x18x20" Can this be done? if not can you give me any advice?

 

[bencozzy]

simple answer no.

maroon, black ocellaris, and a tear drop melanopus or tomatoe??, dont see it working for very long depending on the individual fishes personalities.

 

[Giga]

I would like a pair of maroon clowns? What other fish can I keep with them?

 

[chrisstie]

Have you seen a full grown female maroon? They get to be 5-6" (There is one at one of my LFS that's 30 years old) you'd never be able to keep anything but a cramped pair in a tank that size more than likely.

I would stick with a smaller species like occ or perc

 

[seapug]

I've had a pair of maroon clowns for over 2 years. Big momma is about 3 inches and Little man is about 1.5 inches. They are my fish sidekicks. They've been in 4 different tanks and even survived a 3 day car ride when I moved from California to Colorado. They've lived with jawfish, pipefish, cardinals, blennies, and gobies and a six line wrasse. The wrasse was the only one they didn't get along with. I finally rewarded their years of service with an anemone tank all their own (except for a yashia goby who lives in a cave at the bottom of the tank). I guess it really comes down to how they are introduced. If they are in a tank by themselves with an anemone and a new "swimmy" fish (not a rock/bottom dweller) is introduced, they can get a bit ****y. Basically, they are territorial and once they stake out their "zone" they don't like other "swimmers" entering it.

 

[jaysreef]

I would not even give it a second though in a tank that small.