Six little clowns

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pavelow360

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I have a sort of dillema I need to solve. I have 5 occellaris clownfishes and 1 maroon clownfish and two tanks. One tank is a 16 gallon and the other a 41 gallon with 18 gallon cap. sump. I have had one of the occellaris in the 16 gallon for over a year now and lost the partner not to long ago to a floor surfing event. (looked into all possible reasons) I have a replacement from okinawa in quarantine at the moment. I also have 3 very small baby occellaris clowns that I plan on putting in the 41 gallon, this is where the maroon clown will reside as well (currently in quarantine). I know from reading that maroons do not like their own species at all and as such are hard to pair. A friend of mine had a maroon clown with what I believe was a clarkii , he was black with white stripes. They got along once the maroon established the fact that the anemone in the tank was his...lol So I am wondering if the my maroon will pumble my 3 baby occellaris in the 41 gallon? If I put all the fish in the tank and then the maroon? being the newbie, would this possible work? any advise welcome
 
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I wouldn't put other clowns in with a maroon. It could be pretty ugly and its just not worth trying IMO.
 
If anything put all the ocellaris in the big tank and the maroon in the small tank.

So why do you have so many clowns, if you don't have the tanks for them?
 
tcmfish said:
If anything put all the ocellaris in the big tank and the maroon in the small tank.

So why do you have so many clowns, if you don't have the tanks for them?
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This is one of my options but then that would only leave the dominant pair to possibly be a mating pair... I kind of want to give the dominant two in the baby 3 some a chance to be mated as well as the two older ones in a separate tank

The odd ball maroon was supposed to be paired with another maroon clown that I have... when I bought both maroons, they were in quarantine together and did not bother each other... one got to his tank first and when I put the second one with him... they did not get along... rendering him homeless... I have since built this 40 gallon where the 3 occellaris will go
 
so, how did 3 ocellaris turn into 5 ocellaris? why do you have so many clowns with just two tanks?

inevitably there will eventually be fighting, especially with the maroon clown as he matures. maroons can be very aggressive as an adult.
 
Yes, it seems as if you let impulse take over where reason would have prevented your problem. Reduce the number of clowns.
 
dtran01 said:
so, how did 3 ocellaris turn into 5 ocellaris? why do you have so many clowns with just two tanks?

inevitably there will eventually be fighting, especially with the maroon clown as he matures. maroons can be very aggressive as an adult.
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look at the title of the thread, then read my initial post
 
unfortunately, just getting rid of the fish is not an option...thank you for your constructive criticism
 
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For a second I am going to pretend this is real.

First, if you put the maroon with any of your other clowns, you will end up with just a maroon. Second, if you you put more then 2 of the occellaris together, you will -- in time -- end up with just 2. Third trying to put the maroon in the 16 gallon would be a poor choice.

How is getting rid of the fish not an option? With what you are planning, you are going to end up killing quite a few clowns.
 
I'd like to add that the maroon would be too big for the 16g tank, so I would not consider that to be a good option IMO
 
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