2 maroon clowns in the same tank?

[nanokid]

Ok I went to my near saltwater fish store and i saw another small maroon clownfish. Hes sooo small and i want him for my 12 gallon aquapod. I have 1 already in there about 1 1/2 inch but i have noticed hes a lil aggresive. I put a beautiful purple fire fish in there cause i thought he would want a tank mate and he was smaller than the clown. My maroon clown is just a regular 1 its not the gold stipped 1 or anything it has white strippes. I saw the next day my firefish had biting on him like 3. It couldent have been from my cleaner shrimp or my scarlett crabs or my turbo snail. He died ( firefish ) very sad

and now my maroon is bak by him self with like 4 nice corals in there big nice
Ur friend Aaron Soliz #3

 

[mscarpena]

Your tank is much too small to have 2 Maroon clowns in it. 20-30 gallon is the samllest you should go. Maroons can get up to 6-7 inches. Also Maroon clowns are one of the most agressive clowns and you should purchase them as a pair from the store. You can try to make one but putting a large one with a much, much samller one, but even then they could kill one another. If you want a couple of fish in a samll nano cube put 2-3 small gobies and et rid of the clown.

 

[30-xtra high]

does the store know you have a maroon in a 12???, and if they do, you shouldn't listen to any information they ever give you, a maroon needs at least a 30 gallon tank, a 7 inch fish is WWWWAAAAYYY to big for a 12 gallon.
if you had a 30, i'd say go for it and buy the clown, the issue is not them fighting, it's the space, you should definatly get rid of your clown.

 

[nanokid]

Im going to miss the little fella. Ive had him for 2 months mabey a little bit more. If thats what i gotta do to keep him healthy than i will. I really care about my fish specially him sence hes my bestest fish i have ever had and he lived the longest.

Whenever i let him go to a better place and hopefully he does i want to get a pair of perc clowns for my tank. I was reading a thread like 2 seconds ago that they really like frogspawn and i was thinking to my self heyyyyyyy i have a pretty big 1 in my tank. Its open as we speak cause i have the tank in my room. Its beautiful but if i get my perc clowns do yall think they will go threw it and make it there little home sweet home?

 

[30-xtra high]

there you go, and a pair of percs look great together in a lil tank with a hosting coral, they'll take to the frogspawn real quik

 

[nanokid]

thank u,

and when I do get my 2 perc clowns. Is there something i should b looking for before i perchase them? like does 1 need to be bigger than the other 1? or what else? :joy:

 

[30-xtra high]

you can either buy 2 that are in the same tank at the store, or if they are all seperated try to get 1 thats just hardly bigger than the other, if one is way bigger than the other they'll probly fight, and if they're the same exact size they might fight

 

[mscarpena]

Try to get them from the same tank and try to buy tank raised. If they are wild caught ask the store to feed them. They should feed very aggressively or you should hold off. Also look to make sure the seem well fed and have no spots or blemishes. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[nanokid]

Hey Good Newz I put my litttle marroon clown in my new 40 gallon tank. I have alot of LR in there. Around 70 lbs. Ive had the tank all set up for about a month with a nice big light that i can keep and coral i want. Clown loves it. Has alot more hiding spots. After all i didnt have to let him go :cheer: . I was wondering cuz i seen these 2 little baby tomato clowns and i loved them. Im a clown lover lol

but they where agressive they both gain up on this small little maroon clown. I was about to complain to the people of the store but there was a tank by it self with nothing in there but crabs and snails so i got the net and stuck him in there. I asked the people if i could do this 4 them and they let me cause they know i know saltwater pretty will and im good friends with the people that own the place but i was wondering if i could stick them in with the little marroon i have in my 40 gallon but my marroon is a little bigger than them. The tomato clowns where about 3/4 of a inch and my marron was little more than a inch.

 

[nanokid]

or I could stick them in my 12 gallon aquapod. I added a new torch coral for 35 dollers. Good deal. It had 9 heads. Its all ready coming out alot sence i got him. Do u think if i would of bought those 2 tomato clowns they would host my big frogspawn ( has 6 head) or would it host my torch coral or my hairy mushrooms?