Maroon Clowns?? Yellow or White stripe

bigpapa

bigpapa

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I was looking to get a pair of Maroons and really like white stripe over the yellow. Now what I have read is that the white is just the juvinile stage of the yellow but have also seen the white stripes sold seperately. Is there really 2 different breeds?
2nd ? aquacultured vs wild?? opinions please
As always, thanks!!
 
michael1972

michael1972

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Originally Posted by Bigpapa
http:///forum/post/2748009
I was looking to get a pair of Maroons and really like white stripe over the yellow. Now what I have read is that the white is just the juvinile stage of the yellow but have also seen the white stripes sold seperately. Is there really 2 different breeds?
2nd ? aquacultured vs wild?? opinions please
As always, thanks!!
The Maroon Clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) has a maroon body with 3 vertical white stripes or lines on its body. There is also a gold stripe variety that comes from Sumatra and the gold stripe.
I never rely thought about if they were the same i always thought they were different ones but as i looked it up the baby ones had white and no gold/yellow on the stripe so i dont know.
i have a two of them one is a miss bar and a regular one, both gold stripes the size difference is funny the miss bar "the 3 gold and white bars only go half the way down" that is the smaller one.
the fatty is very strong, enough to flip over rock work and moving corals around i saw it move a flat rock 5in by 8in it is the rock in my avatar she didn’t like it where it was and moved it out of its way
i also seen it move hammer coral it had about 7 heads on it. it picked it up like it was nothing and just moved it. They live in an anomonie that usta get bigger than a 5 gal bucket but now that i put the clowns in there it is paper plate size but some times it stretches out.
 
invertcrazy

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You should keep only one pair of clowns per tank unless you have a large tank. So the false percula or ocellaris clown is more peaceful, the maroon and tomato are most aggressive. With that being said I don't think a maroon would be a good idea for your pod being you have a clown or two in there already.
As for the yellow or white stripe maroon, I believe they are two different fish but I'm not 100% sure.
Aquacultured are supposed to be more hardy and easier to get to acclimated to the tank. Although there is a 50/50 chance a clown will pair up with an anemone, it may take a aquacultured clown a bit longer because being tank raised it never seen an anemone until we put them together.
hope this helps
 
bigpapa

bigpapa

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Originally Posted by InvertCrazy
http:///forum/post/2748045
You should keep only one pair of clowns per tank unless you have a large tank. So the false percula or ocellaris clown is more peaceful, the maroon and tomato are most aggressive. With that being said I don't think a maroon would be a good idea for your pod being you have a clown or two in there already.
As for the yellow or white stripe maroon, I believe they are two different fish but I'm not 100% sure.
Aquacultured are supposed to be more hardy and easier to get to acclimated to the tank. Although there is a 50/50 chance a clown will pair up with an anemone, it may take a aquacultured clown a bit longer because being tank raised it never seen an anemone until we put them together.
hope this helps
I'm sorry, I dont think I specified. The pod has the peaceful ones. I also have a 46 hex that I wanted to put the maroons in. The only thing in there now is LR and some fiddlers and has been up for about a year. I did have other stuff in there but since moved them to my 150. I did enough reading to figure I had better just keep the maroons alone as I would like to get a pair and the RBTA. My current pair of "docile" clowns bit me when I moved a rock near there anenome so I am guessing that the maroons could become down right dangerous to any other inhabitants. Now, I am trying to figure out if another light source other than MH would be ok for the anenome in that tank. It is 22" from top to bottom and I have never used t5s before so wanted to see if they would work??
 
bigpapa

bigpapa

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Originally Posted by MICHAEL1972
http:///forum/post/2748037
The Maroon Clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus) has a maroon body with 3 vertical white stripes or lines on its body. There is also a gold stripe variety that comes from Sumatra and the gold stripe.
I never rely thought about if they were the same i always thought they were different ones but as i looked it up the baby ones had white and no gold/yellow on the stripe so i dont know.
i have a two of them one is a miss bar and a regular one, both gold stripes the size difference is funny the miss bar "the 3 gold and white bars only go half the way down" that is the smaller one.
the fatty is very strong, enough to flip over rock work and moving corals around i saw it move a flat rock 5in by 8in it is the rock in my avatar she didn’t like it where it was and moved it out of its way
i also seen it move hammer coral it had about 7 heads on it. it picked it up like it was nothing and just moved it. They live in an anomonie that usta get bigger than a 5 gal bucket but now that i put the clowns in there it is paper plate size but some times it stretches out.
Wow, that sounds like quite a bruiser!!
 
invertcrazy

invertcrazy

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Sorry, I didn't know you had other tanks. I thought you were going to mix the clowns.
Also check out this site on rbta's;
www.karensroseanemone.com
PerfectDark has some good reads under this section-clownfish and anemones- then click on we need a sticky by srgvigil.
 
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