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I currently have a female Snowflake Ocellaris and a male Darwin Ocellaris housed in my heavily rocked 90 gal reef. They weren't meant to be paired but it worked out that way.

I would like to get Perculas but don't know if I need to move the Ocellaris out to another tank or if they'd get along. The Ocellaris aren't hosting in anything....I just rescaped the tank 2 weeks ago.

Thanks for any advice or experience you've had.
Kevin
 
90 is very small try and keep multiple pairs of clowns. You need a very big tank to have a good chance at pulling this off. You're rolling the dice in ones under 180 gallons.
 
What about mixing these in with tank raised Ocellaris? They are called Amphiprion perideraion a.k.a. "Pink anemonefish clown"
(picture doesn't get the color effect well, they are much more pink)
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My wife wants them, but Im not sure because everyone says not to mix "clown" species. I just hadn't seen these before and they're popping up at a few LFS' right now. These are also "wild caught" fish, and my 2 Ocellaris' are tank raised.
Thoughts?
 
Skunk clowns are some of the more timid of clownfish but I would still not risk/advise mixing them in with a pair of ocellaris.
 
Are the Ocellaris just to aggressive for them? I have a Large O and a small O, and they seem to get along great, plus I got the "tank raised' ones in hopes that they would be more mellow. What would happen if say two of these or even just one of these pink clowns were introduced?
 
Skunks can be very timid at first, however once they get established they can be very very pugnacious...

Ocassionally mixing species in a tank can work, however if you would like to go that route the best way to do it is buy a group of juvenilles and put them in the tank all at the same time. The idea behind this is that a colony can be established as it happens in the wild, however more often than not one or more of the fish will be ejected from the social group as there is not ample room for the fish to get out of the way of the dominant pair. With that being said I have owned and seen many tanks containg several pairs of different species, however most have these tanks have been 200 gallons +...

Colby
 
It makes sense...
My two O's that I have (although its only been 2 days) seem to not even care about the other fish in the tank right now. Im wondering if mixing "tank raised" and wild together will be a problem. My O's seem so docile, I know Im probably being naive, maybe its because I want it to work. LOL. You gotta keep the wife happy, its hard enough just to get them on board with having the tank. Hahaha.
My goal though is not to have a colony, but rather to just have pairs. If that changes the circumstances or even matters...

So the consensus right now is DONT...???
 
My pair of pink skunks started off nice and calm. However, now that they are spawning, they have gotten a lot more aggressive. Recently I added a small Potter's angel to that tank, which has an existing Potter's. I thought for sure the existing Potter's was going to be an issue, however, the existing Potter's couldn't care less. The skunks on the other hand were not too pleased with the new addition for the first 2 weeks.
 
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