Mixing clowns

[savageAJC]

shouldnt mix clowns... might be doing fine right now, but wont be for long =/

 

[Stephen73ta]

if they fight i'll take him out, yeah my buddy came over and looked at my anemone and he is bleaching. he's been moving alot too. His tentacles and mouth are all white, while the foot is brown. Will his foot turn white too if he gets worse? I don't really know how to tell if he's getting any better at all.

 

[Moos3]

if they fight i'll take him out, yeah my buddy came over and looked at my anemone and he is bleaching. he's been moving alot too. His tentacles and mouth are all white, while the foot is brown. Will his foot turn white too if he gets worse? I don't really know how to tell if he's getting any better at all.

Well, when your clown fish end up belly up, check and see if the fins are ripped, or if the anemone's floating with them.. then you can decide which of the two death wishes have been signed.

 

[What The?]

Just my 2 cent, I am trying the mixing of clowns but with a ocellaris and a sebae clown both are 1.5 inches. but i still know as they get older they will still fight but right now it is fun to watch them swim together.

 

[dc]

Let's not turn this into a name calling thread.

Stephen73ta there are some very knowledgeable people here trying to help you.

 

[velvetelvis]

Just my 2 cent, I am trying the mixing of clowns but with a ocellaris and a sebae clown both are 1.5 inches. but i still know as they get older they will still fight but right now it is fun to watch them swim together.

Well then, you're valuing your own entertainment over the lives and well-being of your fish. Which IMO is a really unfair way to treat animals who depend on you totally for their well-being and who have no way of escaping once the aggression begins. They're not toys. They can and do suffer.

Trust me, they'll still be fun to watch if you return one of the clowns and buy the remaining one a mate of its own species. They'll swim together and begin to form a pair, which is very entertaining to watch--and they'll have the added benefit of not killing each other when they reach sexual maturity and become territorial.

On top of the inadvisability of mixing clownfish species in general, your "sebae" is 99% certain to actually be a Clark's clownfish (not your fault, they're often mislabeled as sebaes). Clark's are very aggressive clownfish as they get bigger--I had a juvenile female who was only 3" long kill a rabbitfish by harassing and chasing it. They may be fun to watch now while they're still small, sexually immature juveniles, but in the long run I think you'll enjoy your clowns much more if you keep a pair of the same species.

 

[Stephen73ta]

Ok, I appreciate the fair warning on the clowns, I really do. I will keep a close eye on them and see if I can trade him for a frag or something.

As far as the health of the anemone, what can I do to help it? I'll post my water parameters tomorrow when I get my water checked.

 

[velvetelvis]

Now you have an excuse to start up another tank.

As far as the nem goes, I'm not very experienced with them. You might want to start a thread on your anemone so the experienced anemone-keepers can give you some advice. Joyce Wilkerson's book on clownfish also has advice on keeping them. You might also want to look on Amazon.com and see what's available in print.