Clownfish and Anemone Crabs

[ThRoewer]

Has anybody here had success in keeping a pair of clownfish and a pair of anemone crabs in the same anemone?

I tried it at first with my first anemone crab and a pair of percula and it actually worked - the fish were not to excited about the crab abut they all got along without fighting.

So I decided to try to replace the first crab with my pair - oh boy was that a mistake. The two new crabs where much more aggressive and not only kicked the percula basically out of the anemone but also took a "bite" out of the females hard dorsal fin. I think the male crab was the evildoer, as he insisted in sitting in the center of the anemone and I saw him attacking the fish.

So I kicked the misbehaving crabs out again and restored the previous state.

Now I'm trying to find out how to make this work without anyone getting hurt. Maybe I need a bigger anemone...

 

[kwsjimmy]

I thni it depends on the type of anemone and mainly the size, I had a pair of clowns in a small gig, once the anemone crab found the nem, he nipped the tail of one of the clowns., so I took the clowns out, a few months later a new pair of clowns were introduced and they all get along fine, mind you the gig is twice the size now. Actually have 3 c quest photon clowns and 1 snow onyx all in the same tank Now and 3/clowns and 1 crab share the gig anemone, some how they forget their are 2 bta's and a h malu in the same tank