New clowns

Z06-Hec · Sep 12, 2015

So 1 of my nearly naked jumped out of the tank last week. Found him in back of tank dried up. Sad day.
My female nearly naked was left alone on her side of tank while the Wyoming white pair stay to the left.
So I picked up 2 mocha and 1 domino clowns small from POTO. They are much smaller than mine so I have then in a separator for a while. Put a nem in there with them too. @Pieces of the Ocean

Oscaror · Sep 12, 2015

cool clowns!

Z06-Hec · Sep 12, 2015

My bigger ones

steelheader.262 · Sep 12, 2015

Z06-Hec · Sep 12, 2015

Here she is checking them out

SantaMonicaHelp · Sep 12, 2015

Really cute clowns. I hope they'll all get along!

~SF

Z06-Hec · Sep 16, 2015

So as you can see my female, adult, nearly naked baby sits the new bunch. She is always with them on the outside of the container.
I assume this is a good thing...
I was planning on releasing this weekend, should i leave them in a little longer? Another week maybe? They are half the size of the rest in the tank.

eliramos · Sep 16, 2015

Z06-Hec said:
So as you can see my female, adult, nearly naked baby sits the new bunch. She is always with them on the outside of the container.
I assume this is a good thing...
I was planning on releasing this weekend, should i leave them in a little longer? Another week maybe? They are half the size of the rest in the tank.

If there are 3 clowns in that tank you may run into problems. I think the baby sitting is leaning more towards curiosity and aggression.
Clownfish when in groups of three will usually pair off and torment the other.
My uncle has a 210 gallon tank, and he has 3 clowns two are always out and about and the other is stuck inside the rocks. I would return one of your clowns if you can.

eliramos · Sep 16, 2015

eliramos said:
If there are 3 clowns in that tank you may run into problems. I think the baby sitting is leaning more towards curiosity and aggression.
Clownfish when in groups of three will usually pair off and torment the other.
My uncle has a 210 gallon tank, and he has 3 clowns two are always out and about and the other is stuck inside the rocks. I would return one of your clowns if you can.

You can totally disregard that lol I just saw you have 4 clowns altogether!
Hopefully you will be in the clear! Good luck!

Z06-Hec · Sep 16, 2015

6 clowns.... 3 adults outside of bin, 2 are paired(the whites) the other(naked) stays on other side of tank 6 foot tank.
The new 3 small ones are being baby sat by the one that is off by herself.

Reeferside · Sep 17, 2015

I love the nearly naked!! I'm going to have to go buy one now..

Z06-Hec · Oct 14, 2015

Ok so update... these clowns have been hosting that little NEM in the container since day 2 or 3 in there.
The Domino eventually became the dominant and kicked the other 2 out. Today i finally moved the container to let them go, i turned the opening face down over my carpet, one immediately left and went to my larger bubble tips and immediately discovering all 3 nems. One of the other mocha stood on the carpet for a while back and forth tasting the carpet and rubbing in it. Then it saw the other mocha off in the bubble tip and went off with it. So 2 mochas left and went to my bigger bubble tips. after a while of being alone the domino left the container and followed the mochas but immediately started trouble in there and tried to kick the mocha out, while there are 3 larger bubble nems... not sure why it chose to fight when there was a big nem for each of them but either way.... they turned and started fighting back...
Kicked out the domino and while all this is happening the adult nearly naked was just baby sitting them. Finally she decided to push the domino away...
once i saw she kept pushing the domino i trapped the domino back in the container with its own nem.
Not sure how this is going to turn out but the adult nearly naked and the 2 small mochas are fine. The adult naked has not followed them into the nem, but rather baby sits them on the outside.