How to tuck your clownfish at bedtime

jayjigga · Mar 12, 2015

I've had this plan in the works for a couple months, and I was finally at a point where I could order my clowns. I bought the ritteri almost a month ago and let it settle before adding any clowns.

Enjoy the vid

[video=youtube;7Hw9rsVPs6s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hw9rsVPs6s[/video]

NanaReefer · Mar 12, 2015

That is one of the neatest clown/Nem videos I've ever seen.

Big Dave · Mar 12, 2015

Love it! How many total clowns? Been thinking about something similar. Were all the clowns introduced together or did you have a pair already?

JohnnyCheats · Mar 12, 2015

Sweet video. Thanks for sharing!

saltyphish · Mar 12, 2015

Love it! My next tank is going to be an anemone/clownfish tank. I saw the video for Melev's 60g cube and that decided it for me. Nice looking set-up.

jayjigga · Mar 12, 2015

NanaReefer said:
That is one of the neatest clown/Nem videos I've ever seen.

JohnnyCheats said:
Sweet video. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Guys (and/or Gals, lol)!

saltyphish said:
Love it! My next tank is going to be an anemone/clownfish tank. I saw the video for Melev's 60g cube and that decided it for me. Nice looking set-up.

Seriously, that was one of the motivations to try a mixed clown tank. I could have otherwise stuck with brood-mates, but I wanted a variety.

Big Dave said:
Love it! How many total clowns? Been thinking about something similar. Were all the clowns introduced together or did you have a pair already?

I was clownless for a couple months. I let the anemones settle first. 30 clowns total; a mix of mostly standard ocellaris, snowflake, onyx, semi-picasso, perc, a nearly naked, and my fave Phantom. I plan on feeding daily to reduce aggression, but I don't want them growing too fast, lol

bairdimusprime · Mar 13, 2015

wow thats an awesome video good luck keeping the aggression down with the mixing of species.
please keep us posted.
I've found the more nems the less aggression but i only keep Percs.

BEST OF LUCK!!

soggytees · Mar 13, 2015

That's AWESOME! Never seen so many happy clowns in one nem before! :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:

rayn · Mar 13, 2015

Keep us informed as to how it goes. I just put four in together and after a few minutes of nipping, they all settled. Was wondering if more could work too, you give hope!

DJE · Mar 13, 2015

Nice video Jay!! I'll have to come over and see them[emoji2]

jayjigga · Mar 14, 2015

bairdimusprime said:
wow thats an awesome video good luck keeping the aggression down with the mixing of species.
please keep us posted.
I've found the more nems the less aggression but i only keep Percs.

BEST OF LUCK!!

I'm definitely going the ocellaris-dominated population helps keep aggression lower. There's a little tattering here and there, but I'm sure that's from them trying to establish a hierarchy.

soggytees said:
That's AWESOME! Never seen so many happy clowns in one nem before! :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:

Thanks. I should have a feeding video up soon.

rayn said:
Keep us informed as to how it goes. I just put four in together and after a few minutes of nipping, they all settled. Was wondering if more could work too, you give hope!

More is always better with this sort of thing. Gluck with your experiment! I'm hoping for both our success.

DJE said:
Nice video Jay!! I'll have to come over and see them[emoji2]

Do I know you?? Haha...

jayjigga · Mar 16, 2015

Feeding vid

[video=youtube;S5nNHLf_aUA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nNHLf_aUA[/video]

H2O · Mar 16, 2015

Looks nice but ones the clowns reach adult the main pair female will lock down the anemone and kill all the other clowns till there's only 2 left unless u got multiple anemones and its a huge tank where they cant see the other pairs sorry its a disaster in the making keep the 2 clowns u like and sell the others before they get killed

jayjigga · Mar 16, 2015

H2O said:
Looks nice but ones the clowns reach adult the main pair female will lock down the anemone and kill all the other clowns till there's only 2 left unless u got multiple anemones and its a huge tank where they cant see the other pairs sorry its a disaster in the making keep the 2 clowns u like and sell the others before they get killed

It's a good thing that I've been planning this a while

I have a green haddoni 12+" wide, 9 BTA's, a stubborn LTA, and a sebae (hopefully a crispa) growing. If need be, I plan to add 2 more big BTA's and maybe a gigantea if my friend ever gives me a heads up that his LFS has a good one in. Over half of the clowns are siblings, so that helps too.
Always glad to have an opinion; nice thing is that I don't have to agree with it.

DJE · Mar 17, 2015

jayjigga said:
Do I know you?? Haha...

Probably not but I know where you live. Lol

Great video of them feeding.

croix67 · Mar 17, 2015

what flow do they like strong flow or indirect

jayjigga · Mar 17, 2015

croix67 said:
what flow do they like strong flow or indirect

Strong, indirect alternating flow is working for me. I'm a little over a month in with the ritteri.

fishroomlady · Mar 17, 2015

that is soooo cute! and cool! I would love to have something like that in my tank - so much activity

sounds like you've done your homework :wink:

croix67 · Mar 17, 2015

What's the best way to alternate the flow

jayjigga · Mar 18, 2015

fishroomlady said:
that is soooo cute! and cool! I would love to have something like that in my tank - so much activity

sounds like you've done your homework :wink:

I've read as much as I could find, but not a ton of info on this sort of thing, so no guarantee that everything will go smooth, but I'm definitely trying to keep aggression down by having multiple hosts ready and willing to snuggle with the harem.