Just got 2 new black and whites...

[tallreefguy]

So I picked up a pair of black and white clowns that apparently "have been together for a long time."
They don't wander very far from each other, & are about 2 to 2-1/2" long.
One is slightly smaller than the other. During the day, the bigger one takes the Ritteri nem, and the other one swims below it. It doesn't go in the nem.
But at night they are both in the anemone.

Is there a good chance that they are the same sex? I was hoping to get a pair that would mate.

 

[vwwanksta69]

As long as they are not fighting they should be a pair. The way they are acting sounds right for a pair. My male always is in front of the ceramic slab in their tank when the female is behind it in their safe zone.

 

[velvetelvis]

If they've been together for a long time and are getting along, they're a pair. I've heard of cases (rare) where both fish eventually become female, but I've never heard of that happening with ocellaris. Even if that had happened with your fish, they would be fighting each other for dominance if they had both become female.

 

[tallreefguy]

I don't see them fighting. The one that is in the anemone most of the day will get a little grumpy when the other attempts to go in it (that I've seen) But they don't wander far from each other, and both are in there at night.
And it's not like they are fighting for 1 anemone. There's a Rose at the other end of the tank.

 

[vwwanksta69]

^^ They sound like a pair. My female perc always keeps the male in line to what she wants...

 

[tallreefguy]

Excellent! That's good to hear!

 

[rfalvey89]

sounds like the pair that are in my 90....I picked them up from a fellow reefer and he tried getting them to take to an anemone & it didnt happen...I did the same thing-no luck...they are my open-water clowns funny- my Clarkii's wont stray far from their nem at all.:fish2: