My new guys, acclimating

[Lotus]

Here's our new fish

They're being quarantined in my "frag" tank after acclimation. If they get sick, we'll set up another tank to medicate them in. Hopefully they'll do fine, they acclimated really well. One of them even ate a little about 10 mins after being added to the tank.

We watched them "meet" for the first time at the store. They got on well, so we took them as a pair. One is slightly larger than the other.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Nice! Good looking fish you got there.

 

[sweetpickles7]

Clowns are soo much fun. They are usually very hardy too, so i wont think you will really have a problem with disease. Nice pick up!

 

[Lotus]

We haven't bought any fish in quite a long time. A few weeks ago one of our gobies jumped out We were looking for a replacement for him, but they didn't have any gobies we wanted, so we finally got the clowns we've been planning on.

 

[Lorna]

Nice pair of clowns Lotus......

 

[TRe]

nice addition!

 

[FroggyFox]

They're so cute.

 

[Dr_fish]

Sweet Clownfish. I want a pair when i get my nano cube.

 

[skratikans]

very nice looking fish! can you only keep a pair, male and female, of clowns..or would you do something like two female clowns?

 

[TRe]

2 females would fight.... but if u had 2 males eventually the more dominant one would turn in to a females and theyd pair up

 

[FishGeek]

Arent Clowns born female and change to male as pairs form.

 

[skratikans]

2 females would fight.... but if u had 2 males eventually the more dominant one would turn in to a females and theyd pair up

wow thats pretty neat

 

[Airborneguy]

The dominant clown will change to female, and vice versa if the situation changes...

I might be setting up a 20l saltwater tank soon with 3 clowns... but I still can't deside what to do!

 

[Lotus]

As far as I know, the larger one usually changes to female, and all are born male. I believe once they change to female, they can't change back to male.

If you get them when they're fairly small and you get one larger than another, you should be fine.

 

[Lorna]

Lotus is correct. They are all born male and the largest dominant fish becomes female. If kept single I believe the fish will become female also....so always when adding another clown to an existing one make sure you always add one that is smaller than the one you have and preferably a juvenille.

 

[TRe]

yup and the reason the larger one changes to female is cause the bigger is usually more dominate but yea if a single clown is alone long enough it will turn to female and yes once turned to female theres no turning back but anyways how r they doing? getting along fine

 

[Lotus]

Mine seem to be doing fine. They tend to hang out at different ends of the Q tank (15g) most of the time, but they will swim together at feeding time. They're both small, so I don't think they've really paired up yet. They both ate on the first day, which is great. The smaller one has a tiny mouth, and can't seem to eat a whole mysis, so they're getting small pellet food. The larger one has a little fraying on her pectoral fins, which was there since I got her. I'm keeping an eye on it.

 

[FishGeek]

K I geuss I was backwards. But I knew I was on the right track