Nemo's

[chasesng]

Gettin stupid on a friday night.

So whats the deal with percula / clarkiiiiiii?

I got a "clown" fish in my reef tank. He's the best.

Can i add another now or is it too late? Do they have to go in tank simultaneously?

Can you mix the different breeds/models/types?

(love the tagline on MR about "you spend thousands of dollars on tank and all the girls can say is 'look its nemo' "....thats classic)

 

[skene]

you can try... you'll never know until you do. I have 3 different types of clowns in my DT and introduced all at different times when they were in my previous tank.
While you may not have the same results, they will usually live with each other provided there is enough room in the tank.

 

[duke62]

get one smaller then the one you have already.if its the same size or a bit largeer they will fight

 

[Chris Jury]

There are around 30 species of anemonefish which are contained by the genera Amphiprion and Premnas. Of those ~30 species, one species is known as the Clownfish, Amphiprion percula. Another species (A. occellaris) that looks very similar is sometimes called the 'False Percula' clownfish. However, it's common to see all of the various species of anemonefish referred to as clownfish, e.g., Clark's anemonefish is called Clark's clownfish.

As for mixing species--I've seen success as well as abject failure. In general it seems less likely to work with really aggressive species and more likely to work with less aggressive species. It depends on the individual fish, the size of the system, access to anemones or substitute hosts, etc. Usually introducing a new fish is possible, but slow introductions (i.e., keeping the new fish in a cage in the tank for a few days) are needed with some of the more aggressive species, such as Maroons.

Are you wanting to mix a percula and Clark's?

 

[chasesng]

awesome summary.

unfortunately i dont know what make and model i have. he looks like nemo.

 

[rkaragozler]

There are around 30 species of anemonefish which are contained by the genera Amphiprion and Premnas. Of those ~30 species, one species is known as the Clownfish, Amphiprion percula. Another species (A. occellaris) that looks very similar is sometimes called the 'False Percula' clownfish. However, it's common to see all of the various species of anemonefish referred to as clownfish, e.g., Clark's anemonefish is called Clark's clownfish.

As for mixing species--I've seen success as well as abject failure. In general it seems less likely to work with really aggressive species and more likely to work with less aggressive species. It depends on the individual fish, the size of the system, access to anemones or substitute hosts, etc. Usually introducing a new fish is possible, but slow introductions (i.e., keeping the new fish in a cage in the tank for a few days) are needed with some of the more aggressive species, such as Maroons.

Are you wanting to mix a percula and Clark's?

very nice write up,
I have been trying to introduce different types of clowns into my system for over a year know with no luck what so ever. I have in my 450 a pair of photons, and a pair of maldives. I tried to introduce, a pair of ora midnights, a pair of ora naked, a pair of hybrid african clarkis, a trio of darwins, and now they are all in separate holding tanks. the photons claimed their territory
and the only way that might work out for me is to do the rock over, and thats not happening.

 

[al0ha]

what size tank do you have? any pics to put up?