yellow stripe and white strip maroon clown??

[fahad09]

i have a regular white strip maroon clown in my tank and its about 3 to 4 inches long. i wanted to buy another one so they can pair up but i was thinking is it possible if i bought a smaller yellow strip maroon clown and put it in the tank, will they pair up or at least get along or does it only have to be another white strip maroon clown for them to pair. i mean they are pretty much alike except the strip colors.

 

[azcummins]

maroons tend to be aggressive so everything I've read said to add them to a new tank together, or else clown #1 will claim the tank as theirs. Then if you add a new clown, its new clown v. old clown for the tank = fight.

 

[fahad09]

will they still fight even if the new clown is the same and much smaller?

 

[azcummins]

I've heard that they will. It seems like they wouldn't...that they would want to pair, but I'm not one to throw $40 and a good fishes' life just to see what might happen.

 

[Lmecher]

Re: yellow stripe and white strip maroon clown??

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14574853#post14574853 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fahad09
i have a regular white strip maroon clown in my tank and its about 3 to 4 inches long. i wanted to buy another one so they can pair up but i was thinking is it possible if i bought a smaller yellow strip maroon clown and put it in the tank, will they pair up or at least get along or does it only have to be another white strip maroon clown for them to pair. i mean they are pretty much alike except the strip colors.

Yes, same species, the color of the stripes depends upon where they were origonally taken from. Did you read the pairing thread at the top of this forum? Some good advice there for pairing maroons.

 

[fahad09]

thanks for the thread advice but i can't find it.

 

[Heterodonut]

I have had great luck putting a very small maroon in a tank with a much larger maroon. Just recently I put a gsm F1 baby about 1 inch in with a 4" plus GSM that I had without a mate. The big one came over and head butted the little one once or twice, after that most everybody would call them "bonded" or "mated". I have heard you always want to put the little one in the bigs ones tank not the other way around. Otherwise the tiny maroon will try to defend it turf against and lose badly. Putting a way undersized maroon in with a large one sounds risky, but I've done it three times without so much as a skirmish. Its like the little one knows not to even try to fight, and submits instantly. And if your big one has been alone for awhile-it's def. a she-and should appreciate some "man-company"! Yeah, I'm sure people have a single Maroon that is as mean as cr@p, but I have worse battles with 1 cm maroon siblings.

 

[ocellaris123]

Yeah as was said previously they are the same species so you will have no problems pairing the two. You can put the smaller one in a critter container to allow visual contact so the two get used to each other and put him in with the female when there no more signs of aggression.

 

[fahad09]

thanks for all the advice. i am going to try to purchase fish online for the first time from liveaquaria and i will be sure to put the yellow strip on the list.