Schooling Perculas (NEMOS)?

[raymond4133]

I was wondering....Is it possible to get a school of Nemos.....like 4-6 of them to school or put together some sort of group in a Green Long Tentacle Anemone....

I really want to realize the dream of having the real Nemo in my tank and not his cousins like the marroon or tomato clowns....

the Long Tentacle that i got from minh looks great and so big that a school of little Nemos would look great on it....

Right now a friend of mines gave me a tomato clown....I put him in my tank but it was a big mistake on my part....My big 4-5 inch marron clown pratically knocked it out .....So luckliy I was able to catch the bad fish and put him in my refugium....So now the tomato that is a little torn up has adapted and has taken the LTA as his home....

Well anyways if there is a way that i could keep a group of nemos please help me.....

What would be even greater is if i could keep all three species of clown in my tank because they are all beautiful fish....

 

[raymond4133]

Ohh one more question....Is it wise to feed my LTA....When i bought him from minh....he told me that he did not want the LTA to split......What is the normal feeding regimine for LTA as big a dinner plate or 12 inches in diameter....I do have him under metal halides too....

?????

 

[shilo_1]

Unless you have a HUGE tank, it is not advisable to keep more than one pair of clowns, and usually also not a good idea to mix species.
I would not recommend it.

If you want "Nemos", get rid of the two clowns you currently have (or set up 2 smaller tanks that each one can go into), and get a pair of clowns that you can put in your main tank.

Take a look in the clownfish and anemone forum - I'm sure there will be better advice there, if not already the same questions asked before....try doing a search there.

 

[shilo_1]

For the LTA, you can feed small pieces of silverside, small shrimp, etc. I sometimes give my anemone a cube of mysis or squid. Just mix up its diet of meaty foods. I'd only feed once or twice a week.

 

[dots]

You will not be able to keep more than one specie of Clown in a tank.
Maroons are some of the most territorial so mixing even another maroon, even if its WAY smaller is difficult. I tried mating my 4inch female w/ a <1inch male and she tore him to shreds, lasted about a day after being Qteened in a box next to her for a week for her to get used to him.
If you have more than one juvenile, they will live together for a short time and kill each other off for dominance of the Anenome

Your best bet it to find a mated pair of falrse percs, which are easy to find.

Its best to feed the anenome once a week/two weeks, I watch mine, when it gets really infated I know its hungry and wants more energy

 

[yoboyjdizz]

Unless its a large tank it will be very hard to get the marron clown to allow your nemo's to live a long healthy life in your tank.. As far as adding a group of them is a possibility but im not sure about six maybe 4 though. They domminant two will form a pair while the remaining one or two will stay juvenile or sub-adult if i remember correctly.

 

[wombat2]

It's possible in a very large tank. The only species I've seen it done with is A. ocellaris. You'll get one large female, a somewhat smaller male, and several very small sexually immature individuals.

In a 125 gallon you should rid the tank of any other clown or damsel species if you really want to achieve this.

 

[goslugsgo]

From this thread:

"I think most of the clowns return to their favorite anemone at night but they definitely cruise them all during the day. Interesting that some anemones only have two or three of the bigger clowns in them at night and then the rest of the clowns are piled all together in big groups. Looks like the immature ones stay in dorms while the mature ones are starting to claim their own areas."