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02-22-2008, 05:19 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 25
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 |  Clown Compatibility
I have just recently got into the whole marine fish tank hobby and I'm definitely have lots of fun. My next step is to start adding some corals and anemones which I will be doing fairly soon. I have always like most of you liked the idea of having clowns but i would also like to have some variety in them. I was thinking of doing 2 black and 2 red false clowns...Do you all think that they would work out or would they have problems? _________  55 gal All-glass
760w MH
Remora Pro HOB skimmer
Rena 55 Smart Filter & Heater Combo 3 Zebra Dart Fish, 3 Yellow-Blue Damsels
3 Skunk shrimp, 1 Blue Neon Goby
1 Sailfin
50 lbs Live Rock
2 Frogspawn
1 Colt Coral
1 Pulsing Xenia Colony
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02-22-2008, 06:03 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Let me understand the Q better. You want to have two pairs of clowns(4), one black pair and one paired regular false. In a 55g? I think that your going to have WW3. If your tank was much bigger, like a 180 or so, then maybe. _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-22-2008, 06:30 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 25
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Point taken, my desired full stock includes:
2 Clowns
1 Foxface
1 Mandarin
1 blue goby
1 diamond goby
1 yellow tang
My current 3 damsels and 3 darts were more or less to get the tank rolling and aren't what I will have when I'm done.
Do you still believe that to be overkill? And now the question is simply academic, would a black and red clown get along?
Last edited by dh1758; 02-22-2008 at 07:02 PM.
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02-22-2008, 08:21 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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2 Pairs of Clows = Trouble
However, 2 Various Species Clowns can SOMETIMES be possible. At the moment I have one Orange Ocellaris Clown and One Black Ocellaris successfully, even thou it looks funny. | |
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02-22-2008, 08:34 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 35
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i have a 55 gallon and i concider my tank fully stocked with 1 marroon clown,1 clarki clown,1 tomato clown 1 white tail dwarf angel,and 1 green chromi.the fish are peacefull with each other most of the time.as thr clowns grow i may get rid of the chromi but i'm stuck with the angel cause nobody wants it with only one eye,and i could never part with any clowns
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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02-22-2008, 09:09 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by dh1758  Point taken, my desired full stock includes:
2 Clowns
1 Foxface
1 Mandarin
1 blue goby
1 diamond goby
1 yellow tang
My current 3 damsels and 3 darts were more or less to get the tank rolling and aren't what I will have when I'm done.
Do you still believe that to be overkill? And now the question is simply academic, would a black and red clown get along? | I believe that the foxface and the yellow tang are not suitable for a 55gal. According to a book I have, they both should be in a MIN of 75g. I have both of those fishes and I think they have out grown my 90g already. | |
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02-22-2008, 09:16 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Different species of clowns may coexist if added to tank as juveniles and close to the same time.
May not do well as they get older and more territorial in a smallish tank.
Different species pairs, will certainly not work out....  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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02-23-2008, 05:53 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Taunton, MA,Massachusetts
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Agreed...a 55 is too small for the Foxface and the Tang... _________   | |
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02-23-2008, 07:09 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Sorry not to be an A$$ but the question wasn't can I keep a tang and foxface in a 55 galon tank!! It was about Clown compatibility....
Keeping Different Species of clowns together can be like rolling dice, sometime you win and sometimes you loose, sometimes it is simplicity it self and someties its a slughterhouse.....
As omard states "Different species of clowns may coexist if added to tank as juveniles and close to the same time." but IMO they must be super young.
Good News:
I had 2 pairs of clowns living in a 28 gallon Hex tank for years, a pair of Percula Clowns (Amphiprion percula) and a pair of Maroon Clowns(Premnas biaculeatus). When I bought them none of them were longer than an inch. and I intruduced them to the tank on the same day. It took them about 2 weeks to quite chasing one another but once they found thier own area in the tank the peacfully coexisted for years.
Bad News:
I put 2 Tomato clownfish, (Amphiprion frenatus) and 2 Pink Skunk Clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion) All about the same size in into a 90 gallon tank, a few weeks later I had 2 dead Clowns, one slightly damaged Skunk clown and one Beast of a tommato hiding in the rocks of the tank.
Basically, it can be done but dont be to upset if it doesn't happen for you.....like I said its a like roll of the dice! _________ I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.
Every morning is the dawn of a new error.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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02-23-2008, 07:23 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Originally Posted by gazog Sorry not to be an A$$ but the question wasn't can I keep a tang and foxface in a 55 galon tank!! It was about Clown compatibility.... | Dear Mr. Gazog,
I know what the question was, I did answer his question, but I also took the liberty of informing him about his choices for a 55g. That way, he doesnt make the mistake of buying them. No offense, Gazog | |
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