Ocellaris And Maroonfish

[Sound]

Well, I found a good home for my ocellaris pair through my LFS and I went out to buy a maroon pair to replace them. Well the pairs were too big so I ended up bying a gold banded maroon clown by itself. By the time I got home my LFS had closed so I just separated my ocellaris in a container floating on top of the water. It worked and in the morning there they were.

So far so good, right?

Then my little buddy the urchin decided he wanted to take a look-see, and gripped it with his little suction tentacles and tipped it over. So when I came out of the shower, there were my ocellaris in with my maroon (who by the way hosted my BTA within a hour of introducing it to my tank.). I panicked thinking they would fight, but instead the maroon stayed where it had been in it's anemone and the ocellaris really didn't seem to care any. What's going on? Could they have really gotten used to him over night?

You gotta love my urchin, though. Always fouls up my plans (via. Knocking over coral, eating coralline algae if I don't give it enough sea weed, etc.)

 

[Sound]

By the way I have a 24 gallon only, which adds to the confusion.

 

[Arati]

I would say the maroon is new and hasnt yet declared its territory. For now it tolerates the O. If the maroon is young it may take time for the fish to age and develope its mean streak fully. If the fish is already an adult , then sooner then later it will begin to remove other clownfish from its territory.
In some cases they can become verry agro and kill in a matter of hours, when the seemed to get along just fine the day before.
In some ultra rare case's the O magically learns how to speak maroonish he wiggles just right and they piar up.

I would justy be happy things went well, and continue with the original plan.

 

[Sound]

So the ocellaris pair wouldn't be the aggresors in this case then?

 

[Arati]

they may be initialy just based on territory but in the end the maroon will be, I would think. although there is two of em.. it wont end good in a 24 imo