The main issue with them is survival, it's kind of a 50/50 chance if they'll eat and/or live
Your chances will definitely go up but it's still a bit of a gamble
They could, some people get lucky with their first one and it lives for years, other people don't get lucky until their 3rd or 4th one. I'm definitely not trying to discourage you from getting one, they just have a higher mortality rate than a lot of other hardier fish in the hobby
They may stop eating from the stress of being moved. They are more sensitive then other fish. I recently moved my 2 clownfish from one tank to another and it took them 4 days to start eating again and resume their normal behavior towards each other. Up to that point they ate like pigs. They are just now getting back to normal.
They will devour your feather dusters. Not sure if you have any of those.
If you have aptasia they will hopefully get rid of them.
May not. :-(
They are difficult to acclimate.
Would recommend they are the largest fish in your tank.
They make firefish seem mean and ornery. :-(
Make sure it is eating heartily at the LFS.
Buy whatever they are feeding it.
For long term survival, more than a year, they need lots of clams.
Ours is small and I spend 10 minutes a night cutting them up and hand feeding him bits of clams off my fingertips.
If you are used to tossing in a cube of frozen then calling it good, this is not to fish you are looking for.
If hand feeding your annoying, finicky fish sounds like fun then definitely recommend it.
