Thoughts on aggression for particular species

[Moort82]

Hi just picking your brains really. Bit of a basic question and apologise if it has been asked many time before but just looking for some experience with a couple of different species of clowns. I've only kept ocellaris and percs before and understand that these are at the lowest end of the clown aggression scale. I'm now considering a pair of Clarkii's and i understand that these are a couple of steps up from percs but in the grand scale not particularly bad as long as the tank mates can handle them at breeding time. I don't plan on a nem if this make a difference but how bad "potentially" are they assuming they have the space to call their own?

The other clowns i've been considering are pink skunks, i realise these are less aggressive but i have read because of their natural habitat they really do best with a nem. Does this seem to be the case and are they really more delicate than other clown species, or is this just a general description of the skunk family?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Just my experience.

My pink skunk pair (( which I sold about a year ago )) were very docile at first. That all changed when they started spawning. They would repeatedly chase my dwarf angels -- golden, coral beauty and venustus -- when I added the coral beauty I had more issues from the pink skunks than I did from the existing angels. This aggression just wasn't when the angels were near the clowns anemone, they would leave the anemone (( which was on the right hand side of a 58 gallon )) to chase the fish. They were the indirect cause of my losing the golden angel to the S. haddoni.

I have had spawning pairs of Clarkii, maroons, percs and a bonded pair of saddlebacks. The pink skunks were, by far, the most aggressive.

 

[lil_man72]

the clarkii's are about as aggressive as you can get. they can hold there own with maroons and tomatos. i've never had the skunk. the percs and ocellaris are really in a league of there own. i've never seen them bully anything around other than smaller percs or ocellaris. i always thought that maroons were the meanest just from what i had heard, but after having a pair i think they are not as mean as the clarkii or the tomato. i have a small tomato and a small clarkii (3/4") that bully my 4" puffer around.

 

[Moort82]

Thanks for that. There does seem to be lots of mixed experience with them, which i guess isn't unexpected when your vary the stock they are with, the size of tank, feeding, personality etc.
If think i'll probably give them a go as i have a tank they could go into in an emergency if need be, so the risk isn't as bad.