trying to pair some clowns

[Kmiec123]

I just have not seen full grown-stand alone males. I Was typing fast and did not have time to explain further, but trying to politely suggest that you check your references. That info seemed inaccurate. Larger Males with Females will only make it harder for the clowns to figure out who the submissive one should be. That being said, my experience is more with paring up Juveniles. I have paired some juveniles with established females in the past with next to no issue. I also have swapped males from established pairs with next to no issue. To have a fish that I have no Idea of the sex or time apart from another fish, I cannot comment on what to due, only give suggestions, because the information is sketchy and seems to change with different clown types: occ., perc, ect.
Hope this cleared my comment up.....not trying to send any hate Joel.
Carl

 

[ostrow]

Ahhh, well Carl ... my thought was to find a small pair where either the female had died, sold, or the male could be separated. That's where I thought I could get a male about the size of my female (thus thoughts of contacting Rod or yourself). Not so much swapping males as just getting the male!

I fully understand a stand-alone clown will be female after a matter of a few weeks!

Thanks. But now I'm wondering if this idea of adding one about the same size or a bit larger is, in fact, the way to go. Just that whenever I've gone with a smaller one, it has died.

 

[Rod Buehler]

Joel, I would sure like to see that email, because it is the exact opposite of what I always tell everyone else. If you can find that I did say that, Id like you to find whoever slipped me something that day, because it must have been awefully good. I have always said the smaller the better.. So small that the female will look at it like " what the...."

 

[reeftrinh]

Wow talk about hijacked thread!!! no worries.. anyways to clarify this for rod and carl, i had a larger female that has been alone for at least a year. The female was about 2-2.5 inches long. the male i was trying to introduce was 1 inch out of a tank full of tank breed clowns. i took one of the smaller clowns (likelyhood that it was a male was greater).

next time i'll do the same but use the breeder net to try to establish and reduce the aggression the female will have towards the male. at first, the female did not attack the male but after some time, the female went ballistic and started to bite the male. unfortunate but lesson learned.

i'm glad to know that some of you have been successful at matchmaking. i'll be using your experience in the future when i give it a try again.

i am pretty sure that if you have a clown that has been alone for a while, it will become a female. to pair it up, you will need a juvenile clown that has not changed over to a female. from there you will need to extend the acclimation time in the tank using a breeder net to reduce the aggression the male will experience. the breeder net will allow the clowns to "sniff" each other out and hopefully the male will stay a male and the female will be nice =)