Marron clown Help Please

[Guygettnby]

hello, i have been looking around for hours now and still canot seem to find the answer i am looking for.

i just bought a wild mated pair of yellow strip maroon clowns today and was gonna buy the bubble tip at the same time but they sold the last one. now my question is this...

1. will the clowns still go to the anenome when i add it later on?

2. this is in a 20g tank and i have the current sattelite power compact light on it. the light is 65w, will this be enough light for a green bubble tip?

thank you all for your help i am new too clowns and hope to have great luck with my new friends

 

[littleshark]

If theyre wild caught they will stay host if u buy them an anemone a year later. 20 gallon seems kind of small for a pair of clown and theyre maroons. 65 watt might be a little too low for even a BTA. And if u do buy an anemone make sure its 3x as big as ur pair of clowns.

 

[Guygettnby]

the clowns will be moved into my 120g in january but until then i want to keep them happy and alive until the 120 is setup and cycled. as of right now they are both pretty small so they should be ok in there until then i would think. besides the 2 new clowns i have a 6line wrasse and a madrian goby.

so do you thing with what i have now i should hold off on the bubble tip until i get the bigger tank setup with metal halides?

thanks again

 

[seapug]

I wouldn't worry about getting the clowns to accept the anemone when you get it. I have a pair of tank raised gold stripe maroon clowns that took, oh.....about 5 minutes to find the BTAs when I put them in the tank. It's a funny thing to watch. Starts with hesitation and curiosity, then within minutes they are going nuts over them.

I would wait until you upgrade your lighting to get the anemone. I've found BTAs quite easy to care for when you have good lighting and water quality, but tend to wander around and eventually waste away when they are under weak lights.

 

[littleshark]

Yea i would just wait. You can try to get a cheap condy anemone and see if they host that. Not saying they will. Since my friend had a small maroon QT in a 10 with a condy and it host in it about 2 days And they are pretty cheap, ive seen them for 5 bucks at petco.

 

[Guygettnby]

i may try that then. but my nitrates are extremly high right now for some reason and i cant get them to drop....so i am gonna keep away from a anemone until i can get it down.

is it true that high nitrates will kill a anemone? i know bad water parimiters can stress them out and posibly kill them, but how about just nitrates? everything else is good.

 

[littleshark]

Wait until your nitrate are gone, then you can get an anemone.

 

[Guygettnby]

ok. thats what i was gonna do but wanted to double check. this nitrate problem is killin me. its been about 2 weeks and it has barely gone down at all.

 

[seapug]

could be due to a number of reasons. How high are they? Could be an issue of age or something amiss with the filtration.

 

[Guygettnby]

the tank is about 1 year old and it has a hang on the back filter made for a 60 gallon tank. the nitrate levels are between 80-90ppm.....so pretty darn high.

i also dont have a protien skimmer for the tank and that has been ordered. so hopefully that will help to be running 2 different filters along with air stones to help move the water.

i have the folling in my tank now. everything i have in this tank is pretty small and the biggest fish is the female clown at about 2in

1 six line wrasse
1 green mandrin
1 pair mated gold strip marroon clowns
1 coral banded shrimp
1 monkey shrimp
5 pepermint shrimp
2 porcelin crabs
1 emerald crab
about 3-4 small hitchhiker stars and 1 brittle star
4-5 hermits
maybe about 5-6 snails left and falling

 

[seapug]

how often do you clean/replace the cartridges in the filter and do water changes? They can become nitrate factories if neglected. I have a 10 gallon tank with an HOB filter made for a 75 gallon. I took all the cartridges out and put sand and rock in it and a bag of carbon. You can even put a light on them and turn them into a refugium.

 

[Guygettnby]

that is interesting.... i change the filters about once every 2 weeks or until they look like they need it.

 

[mr evolution]

I have the same as you except the gold bar which I'm waiting from my breeder to make a successful pair.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11237780#post11237780 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Guygettnby
the tank is about 1 year old and it has a hang on the back filter made for a 60 gallon tank. the nitrate levels are between 80-90ppm.....so pretty darn high.

i also dont have a protien skimmer for the tank and that has been ordered. so hopefully that will help to be running 2 different filters along with air stones to help move the water.

i have the folling in my tank now. everything i have in this tank is pretty small and the biggest fish is the female clown at about 2in

1 six line wrasse
1 green mandrin
1 pair mated gold strip marroon clowns
1 coral banded shrimp
1 monkey shrimp
5 pepermint shrimp
2 porcelin crabs
1 emerald crab
about 3-4 small hitchhiker stars and 1 brittle star
4-5 hermits
maybe about 5-6 snails left and falling