Introducing Clownfish

[rockstarta78]

Hi - so I am done with the cycling. I am about to introduce 2 clownfish, one black ocellaris and one regular ocellaris. These fishes will come from 2 different people. My question is if I put them on the QT tank together will there be any aggression issues? I'd rather they don't fight or pick on each other. Any help would be really helpful.

 

[thelawnwrangler]

Hi - so I am done with the cycling. I am about to introduce 2 clownfish, one black ocellaris and one regular ocellaris. These fishes will come from 2 different people. My question is if I put them on the QT tank together will there be any aggression issues? I'd rather they don't fight or pick on each other. Any help would be really helpful.

how big / mature?

 

[davocean]

Yeah, at least one has to be small enough to still be a male

 

[rockstarta78]

I know the black one is juvenile. I'll try to make sure the other one is juvenile as well. Will that help?

 

[davocean]

As long as one is you should be fine

 

[rockstarta78]

So even if I introduce them at separate times there ain't be any aggression?

 

[davocean]

I can't swear to that, some clowns are more fussy, some females do not accept certain males for some reason.
You are doing a QT, if you were adding to display I would say intro w/ one in a specimen container so you can watch for aggression, and you still can do that in QT to be safe, in display it can be difficult to fish out a battered male before it's too late.

 

[rockstarta78]

Thanks for the idea. I have a container I can use as a specimen container for couple of days and observe them.

 

[rockstarta78]

If one outside doesn't show any interest I'll let the other one out.

 

[davocean]

The larger female should show interest, but curiosity, not aggression, aggression is usually pretty obvious, cheek spines out and wanting to kill, lunging at it over and over.
I normally place male in container, let the female check it out, some folks do opposite but this works for me

 

[rockstarta78]

Oh great idea. I'll do that. Thanks a lot for the idea.