Introducing clown fish with other clown fish

[CasperOe]

Hi Reefers,

A friend of mine is breaking down his reef tank as he, due to personal commitments don't have the time to look after it anymore.

He's got three beautiful common clown fish that he needs to re-home and have asked me if I want them. They would be introduced into our Cade S2 1500 (5 feet, 143 gallons)

Q: Should I take them?

- I am particularly worried that the two clown fish I have already wont take too well to the 'intrudors'.

Full fish stock (.. and tankmates!):
2 x Ocellaris Clown Fish (Pair)
1 x Timor Wrasse
1 x Tonozukai Fairy Wrasse
1 x Orangeback Fairy Wrasse
1 x Yellow Wrasse
1 x Lawnmower Blenny
1 x One-Spot Foxface Rabbit Fish
1 x Coral Beauty
1 x Royal Gramma
1 x Long Nose Hawk Fish
6 x Carberryi Anthias
2 x Mandarin Goby (Pair)
1 x Copperband Butterfly Fish
1 x Pink Spotted Watchman Goby

Note: A couple of Tangs will be introduced in a month of so as well.

Thanks,

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hi Reefers,

A friend of mine is breaking down his reef tank as he, due to personal commitments don't have the time to look after it anymore.

He's got three beautiful common clown fish that he needs to re-home and have asked me if I want them. They would be introduced into our Cade S2 1500 (5 feet, 143 gallons)

Q: Should I take them?

- I am particularly worried that the two clown fish I have already wont take too well to the 'intrudors'.

Full fish stock (.. and tankmates!):
2 x Ocellaris Clown Fish (Pair)
1 x Timor Wrasse
1 x Tonozukai Fairy Wrasse
1 x Orangeback Fairy Wrasse
1 x Yellow Wrasse
1 x Lawnmower Blenny
1 x One-Spot Foxface Rabbit Fish
1 x Coral Beauty
1 x Royal Gramma
1 x Long Nose Hawk Fish
6 x Carberryi Anthias
2 x Mandarin Goby (Pair)
1 x Copperband Butterfly Fish
1 x Pink Spotted Watchman Goby

Note: A couple of Tangs will be introduced in a month of so as well.

Thanks,

Three weeks ago I bought out a system and took the two big percula despite having 8 in there already. I actually rounded up all 8 and placed them in my larger acclimation box for 9 days and released them into tank. The original ones headed for right corner and as of today, theyre all in the Left corner hanging out together

 

[CasperOe]

Three weeks ago I bought out a system and took the two big percula despite having 8 in there already. I actually rounded up all 8 and placed them in my larger acclimation box for 9 days and released them into tank. The original ones headed for right corner and as of today, theyre all in the Left corner hanging out together

Noted, thanks! I will take that into consideration as well as the fact that (.. as it has been pointed out to me recently!) that my tank is already (more than) well stocked!

Cheers!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Noted, thanks! I will take that into consideration as well as the fact that (.. as it has been pointed out to me recently!) that my tank is already (more than) well stocked!

Cheers!

I had to place my tangs in a 135g for a year as I was to be in Florida and Hurricane delayed everything so just moved them into a 400g but they were in with 14 other fish
Water quality management and diet was my ticket

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Wow, that’s a lot of fish in that aquarium. A lot can go wrong quickly with an overloaded aquarium. Is there anyway, you could start a Clownfish Aquarium?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Wow, that’s a lot of fish in that aquarium. A lot can go wrong quickly with an overloaded aquarium. Is there anyway, you could start a Clownfish Aquarium?

Many people start a clown Tank and when i set up my dropoff tank, I began with 12 clowns

 

[Kapachuka3]

Dang those tanks are insane, just curious, what would be the limit of clowns per tank, i thought if there were more than 1-2 they fight each other.

 

[PlainEnvelopes]

I had two clowns in my 65 gallon for about 5 months. The day I upgraded to my 180G and moved all the fish over I also picked up two more clowns. I think by not have established territory's in the new tank allowed them to live together without issue.