Clownfish coexisting

[madkat]

I have a crazy question.

I have a 150gal tank and I currently have a pair of false percs. I would really like a pair of maroons.

I know they may get along for a while, but how likely is the bloodbath once the female maroon comes to age?

 

[Toddrtrex]

I would say about 99.99% chance of a bloodbath. Maroons are very aggressive, even more so once they start spawning.

 

[boz151]

I have a 180 and have two percs that have been in there from the start. I just intro'd a gold stripe maroon with a RBTA. The main issue is the maroon is very territorial around the nem, so I ended up putting the nem all the way in the back corner. This seems to have cut the aggression down as most of the fish hang out in the front/left side. The maroon was running at everything coming near the nem, not just the percs...

 

[WDLV]

I would advise against it. I have successfully kept multiple species in one tank but what was different in my situation was that they were almost all individuals and the dominant pair seemed oblivious to the others.
Two things that I think spark the aggression are a mate and an anemone. In the case of marroon clowns, I think what starts aggression is adding water.

 

[madkat]

Guys, I was thinking the same thing, not wanting a reason to add maroons, just seeing if everyone has the same consensus.

I currently have a long tenticle on one side of the tank and a RBTA that has split. One is by the LTA and the other is on the other side of the tank.

My false percs could care less about any anenome in the tank. Perhaps if had a carpet A they would feel differently.

 

[velvetelvis]

Two things that I think spark the aggression are a mate and an anemone. In the case of marroon clowns, I think what starts aggression is adding water.

:lmao:

BTAs are maroons' natural host, so if you want both maroons and some clowns to take to your anemones, you might could trade the ocellaris in. One caveat: I would go for captive-bred maroons, even if they cost more. I have yet to see WC maroons that don't look at best somewhat battered and at worst downright sickly, at least in the LFS around here.

 

[mmm67]

NO its a time bomb, fish will die