Originally Posted by
Kari Maureen
My husbands brother wants to dispose of his tank.. Well, he still has two yellow tailed damsels and a clarkii alive in the tank. I know two clarkiis can live together, but my clarkii is half his clarkii's size. Also, I have a condi anemone in my tank that my clarkii hosts in... Will this be a HUGE problem if this clarkii is introduced in my tank? I don't want my little clarkii to have territory issues with this new clarkii... As for the damsels... This is what I have in my 55 gallon..
1 Stars and Stripes Puffer
1 Clarkii
1 Yellow tailed damsel
1 Lemon Damsel
1 Frogspawn
1 Condi Anemone
They shouldn't cause that big of a ruckus in my tank should they? Thanks for your help guys!
ive done alot of experiments with clowns <maroon> ive learned alot, and read alot about this subject...if you where adding the smaller in with the larger
but sence you said it was going to be the larger going in with the smaller i hate to say it but the new one will kill yours, heres what i would do if you have a sump...put the bigger one in with yours, let it beat it up badly, and then put it in your sump, let it heal up, grow all its fins back and then replace into the tank,(about 4 months later) as long as yours dosent fight back and is SUBMISSIVE the bigger one will let it live and they might even become a mateing pair..i hope this helps
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oh one more thing...when you replace the fish back into the main tank the bigger one will still pick on it, if yours still fights back youll have to repet the process. but as long as it runs from the bigger and dosent try to claim dominance youll be ok a few days of the larger testing the smaller makeing sure its not wanting dominance also, meaning if it fights back its tring for dominance and the dominate clown will kill the new comer, clowns are like wolves, they have a "breeding pair" and the rest in the pack are non breeders till one of the dominates pass away, when you reenter yours back to the main tank as long as it dosent fight back in a few days they will be nice together
