3's a crowd?

[blindside]

I have a pair of Picasso clown fish and one naked clownfish that I keep In my 30g, I know its not the best idea to keep all 3 in that size tank, all 3 clowns are about an inch in size, little baby clowns. Do I really need to get rid of one? I love both species of clowns, they have always been my favorite! Am I going to have to part with a Picasso?

[Gseclipse02]

i had 3 in my tank and they did well till the little one (less then a inch) got stock on the power head .... :(

[blindside]

I have always kept more then a pair, but I wanted to know of others experience. They seem to be doing great right now. They are very crazy little fish. They love all the flow. I hope they don't get cought in the power heads! These little guys ran me too much! Ha

[apedroza]

If I'm not mistaken, they are the same species (unless one is a percula) they are just mutations. either way they should be fine and will eventually establish a hierarchy. The largest will be the female 2nd the male and the 3rd unsexed.

[princer7]

The naked is a false percula and the picasso is a percula.

[apedroza]

Thats what I thought, but I 'm not too familiar with the mutations that have come out recently. They should still get along together. I think people have even cross bred the 2 species.

[Sherri]

I had 2 pairs of clowns...my beautiful black & whites and a pair of true percs...after 5 yrs...the male blk/wht killed my blk/wht female & took off, hooked up with the male of the true percs....they killed that female and my male blk/wht became a female & now I have an odd pair living happily ever after in my blk/wht female old home of a colt. How is that for drama??? :eek: Sigh*

[princer7]

I've been tempted to pick up a pair. Aquatek has a nice group in one of their display tanks.

[blindside]

Group of what princer?

[princer7]

Nakeds :bigsmile: (try explaining that to my 9 year old... I would have to break down and give them propper names to keep the giggles at bay.)

I have a pair of Picasso Clownfish and absolutely love them. They are one of my favorite fish. Here is a pic I took of them a few months back...

http://jpaustin.dyndns.org/gallery/Aquarium%20Project/MAAST/Reef%20Tank/Small/slides/IMG_0064%20copy%20Small.jpg

[blindside]

I purchased my naked from there Thursday, and my Picasso pair from there as well last night!

[blindside]

I have these 3 clowns, what would you do if you were in my position? Would you keep all 3? Or get rid of one? If so which one!? I have always had a thing for both types of clowns!

[Hamp]

IMHO, I would leave them all in, and keep a close eye on them. Be ready to take one out. You might loose one that way though. But they all might be fine. I am not sure about keeping true and false percs together though. Sounds a little dangerous to me. If it were me, and I had 3 variations of the same fish, I would definitely do it. I think I may try that soon actually. You might think about having another anemone in there as well.

[blindside]

I keep zero anemone's now hamp :) those things go everywhere. Most to my power heads... Ha

[Hamp]

what happened to the RBTA?

[Hamp]

Maybe you should try to keep them now with the new sunpod.

[blindside]

I'm afraid my 30 gallon is too small for an anemone

[Hamp]

I have 2 in my 24. No problems at all. If they are getting enough light and flow they dont seem to move around much.

[dustint21]

I have 5 clowns in my tank right now. I have 2 false percs 2 GSM clowns and 1 B/W clown. The 2 percs and the B/W all stay together and the GSM pair stay together. I have notice the 2 false percs picking on the smaller GSM clowns, so I have been trying to catch the GSM's to get them a new home. I didnt have a choice but to put them all together at the time. Im building a 20L so I think this will become the new home for the GSM's! Hopefully they make it a few more days with out to much fighting.

[tony]

i just had clown drama similar to sherri's

personally, knowing how much those 3 cost, i wouldnt chance it

[blindside]

Yep, ha I removed the naked clown. Ill stick with the pair of Picasso's :) thanks for the help. And hamp, I might try and put an anemone in there. I'm on my way to go look as I write this!

[Hamp]

A couple picassos in a RBTA is a beautiful thing!

[blindside]

Ha, I'm going to have to save up for a rose bubble tip. Anyone know anybody with a nice rbta available?

[Hamp]

They pop up on here every so often, There was a couple not to long ago, might be worth checking the for sale forum to see if they sold.

[blindside]

I bought an anemone the other day, I got a purple foot one, I think it is a magnificent or somewhere around there?

[Hamp]

Those are amazing, but hard to keep alive. You might want to see if anyone wants to trade. It seems that a magnificent will do better in a bigger tank that has been established longer. They also get pretty big, and you might not have room for much else.

[blindside]

Wanna buy it? Ha

[Hamp]

I would, but I will not have room for it until I set up the new tank.