Mixing clowns?

[msmith619]

I have a 120 gallon system. Is it possible to put both Ocellaris and tomato clowns in a tank of this size? I knoe tomatos are aggressive and would keep several Ocellaris but only Tomato. In a tank of this size would this work or am I asking for trouble?
Has anyone tried this?

[Zack]

I personally wouldn't tomatos are EXTREMELY aggressive fish.

Also, it's not good to put more than two clowns in a tank, especially a 120 as they will fight until only one pair remains.

[OrionN]

You mean they will "...fight until the Tomato pair remain." Ocellaris have no chance against Tomato clowns.

[Zack]

You mean they will "...fight until the Tomato pair remain." Ocellaris have no chance against Tomato clowns.

Sorry, I meant that last bit as a reference to "several occelaris"

[LuckySingh]

Clown fishes are very territorial . I would say most territorial tomatoes are worst .

[msmith619]

I have kept 4 Ocellaris in my 56 gallon tall reef tank, two normal color and 2 black for a year. They all seemed very amiable. No fighting or bickering. The two black 'paired' and hosted my LT anemone. The two orange 'paired' and hosted my Frogspawn coral. At night they all slept together in the LT anemone. No fighting. I lost them all in my move from southerne NM to Albuquerque and am now setting up a 120 gallon and transferring my reef tank to the 120.
Was that NOT normal behavior for Ocellaris? I thought they were veryu social.

Here is a picture of the 56 tall (minus the clowns) to see how close proximity they were.

[Zack]

Yes, very abnormal. Having multiple pairs together is the exception, not the norm.

[OrionN]

You can put a group of Ocellaris together as young, they will do fine. I have had 3+ Ocellaris (even Percula and Pink Skunk) together as juvi. The will do OK, with two largest pair up, they keep the rest stay as Juvi. The juvis get abuse a little but will be fine. As you observed, the pair will keep the anemone and the other get to go in at night or when there is "danger in the tank", like when you mess around in the tank with your hand. Otherwise they got kick out.
In your case I am sure the two black were bigger than the other two.

Female Tomatoes are really mean. She even abuse her husband a lot. Other clowns won't stand a chance.

[stephaniegarcia06]

My female maroon is a beetch as well. She will even square off against the yellow tang and his barb. And bites me any chance she gets. Will also take and move any thing she thinks is too close to her nem. Like frags on plugs.

If I don't want it going missing I have to glue it down. Unfortunately, that is also about the time my nem goes wandering. Can't win.

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[Mike]

Maroons are the worst and they get huge. Our 6 yr old female, Bertha is probably 5 inches and mean as heck.

[envy]

Not saying to go try it but I was at sea world today and they had a clownfish tank. They had 5 ocellaris and 1 snowflake 2 maroon and 4 skunks all in one tank with anemones everywhere. I forgot to take a picture to post on here but if any has a sea world pass or decides to go you will see it.

[mjanet]

I have had two female clowns with my male for over two years now. After about a week of carrying on they settled in and are now tripaired. They are a trip. I had the pair and when my Mom passed we broke down her tank and she only had the female so we throwed them in together. It works for us.