Ron Reefman
Active member
OK, I have a 180g very mixed reef and an 85g hex tank that shares the same 140g sump/refugium. It has been running about 6 months now and much of it is stuff from a 75g reef & 35g estuary tank I upgraded from (had it for several years). The reef is doing fine and I've started making the 85g hex into an anemone tank.
I have a Tomato clown and Percula clown (both female) in the 180g now and they get along OK but the Tomato is the queen. I'm considering getting 2-3 small Tomato clowns and 3-4 small Cinnamon clowns and putting them all in the 85g anemone tank. After a couple of days I'd like to move my female Tomato into the 85g tank as well. My hope is she will find a mate from the group and all the other clowns will stay juveniles (both Tomatos and Cinnamons). There is a big Condy (hosted the Tomato and her old mate who jumpped the tank a couple of months back), 2 RBTA, 2 RBTA with speckles and one anemone I haven't been able to ID (2-3" long off white or gray tentacles about soda straw diameter with green tips that are rounded off at the end).
I know Tomatoes and Cinnamons are closely related and can mate with eachother. But if the female mates with another Tomato, will that keep the Cinnamons from maturing? I only want one mated pair and a school of small clowns in a tank that small. BTW, I'd then get a small Percula for the female Percula that will still be in the 180g reef with a RBTA.
Any thoughts? Questions? Concerns? Issues?
Thanks.
I have a Tomato clown and Percula clown (both female) in the 180g now and they get along OK but the Tomato is the queen. I'm considering getting 2-3 small Tomato clowns and 3-4 small Cinnamon clowns and putting them all in the 85g anemone tank. After a couple of days I'd like to move my female Tomato into the 85g tank as well. My hope is she will find a mate from the group and all the other clowns will stay juveniles (both Tomatos and Cinnamons). There is a big Condy (hosted the Tomato and her old mate who jumpped the tank a couple of months back), 2 RBTA, 2 RBTA with speckles and one anemone I haven't been able to ID (2-3" long off white or gray tentacles about soda straw diameter with green tips that are rounded off at the end).
I know Tomatoes and Cinnamons are closely related and can mate with eachother. But if the female mates with another Tomato, will that keep the Cinnamons from maturing? I only want one mated pair and a school of small clowns in a tank that small. BTW, I'd then get a small Percula for the female Percula that will still be in the 180g reef with a RBTA.
Any thoughts? Questions? Concerns? Issues?
Thanks.
