pairing Pomacanthus imperator

[twiggyb]

Just curious if you just get lucky, or is there a difference between male and females. also, would a 220g 72 x 24 x 30 suffice for two?

 

[snorvich]

I suspect that a 220g may be pushing it, but I don't know for sure. I would suspect that you need to start with juveniles. I too would love to hear about anyone's experiences!

 

[twiggyb]

Would they have to be introduced at the same time?

 

[sevendigitcake]

i believe someone on this forum tried to do this and they tried with one in full adult colours and the other in juvenile colours. if you do a search you may find something on it

 

[NexDog]

I tried, and failed. The juvi was too small to stand up to the older Emp that was semi-adult at the time. At the time I heard it was best to get one young adult and one semi-adult so the smaller one can hold its own a bit more.

I found this to be the case with my Foxface pair too. After one year together the bigger one turned on the smaller and it had to live in hiding for almost two months. As it was still pretty big it was able to fend off the bigger fish long enough to grab food at feeding time and over time learned to stand up for itself. Now they swim together happily once more.

 

[copps]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1467958

Been a while since the thread was updated, but it details my story. The fish are getting along fine now and better then ever. Hopefully that perhaps means spawning in the future... we'll see...

Copps

 

[twiggyb]

Thanks for the link. So I guess I should get another juvi and slowly introduce it to the other one then?

 

[sevendigitcake]

wow thats a nice clarion!

 

[Crabber]

Copps, you have some unbelievable angelfish.