Is this Tomato Clown OK?

[don_chuwish]

This big guy(gal?) is at the LFS, apparently came in from a customer's tank.

About 2" tall & 3-4" long (best guess).

Two questions:
1) I'm not sure what such a large Tomato should look like, but (s)he appears very skinny to me. Opinions?

2) I'm tempted to get it, but only have one place to put it for now - in a 25G cube FOWLR with a slightly aggressive (but small) Yellow Dottyback. If the Tomato isn't healthy I certainly don't want to stress it out with a mean tank mate. But if it is healthy can I expect it to hold it's own with the Dottyback?

We're working on a large (175G or 185G) tank in the near future, so the idea of a large specimen is attractive. So one more question I guess: in such a large tank, would there be any territory issues between this Tomato and our small pair of Percs?

Many thanks,
D

 

[jaa1456]

Persoanly I would pass on it, also they get real aggressive.

 

[auem]

pass that...his upper body is UNUSUALLY skinny....his belly seems alright....
never seen such disfiguration ...!!!!...
either that fish is genetically defective or it must had suffered some permanent injury to it's upper torso....

 

[MrTuskfish]

I think this may be a Cinnamon clown. If it did come from someone elses tank, why buy thier problems.

 

[don_chuwish]

Thanks all. Call me sentimental, I wanted to help it out, but probably best to skip it. I may not even have what it needs.

 

[mt4sure]

+1 on skipping it, like what others have chimed in, why buy another persons problems...