What would be a cool anemone and anemone fish combo in this 125 reef tank?

[msmith619]

So, I am reading all these anemone and fish posts and looking at all the great pictures and I notice something:

Lots of Ocellaris clowns, a few less Percula clowns, an occasional skunks, rarer sebae, and clarks clowns, one or two pics of Maroon clowns but, NO Tomato clowns. Is there a reason no one has tomato clowns? Yet, when I visit the LFS, it is mostly tomatoes, Ocellaris and an occasional sebae I see.

I have a 125 reef tank and want to add either a pair of true Percs, maybe Onyx, Orange skunks, or Tomatos for the bright red. I am more into the natural colored clowns than the designer clowns. I have successfully kept BTA and LTA for several years. I moved and set up this new tank. Is the lighting and flow sufficient for one of the other anemones? I was thinking lots of red BTAs or maybe one of the carpets if the tank has the right lighting and flow.


Here is my reef tank, what would be the best clown/anemone combo for this tank?

Livestock: 1 Rock Beauty, 1 Hippo tang, 2 Royal Gramas, 1 Yellowhead jawfish, 2 Pajama cardinals, 2 yellowtail damsels, 2 Talbot's damsels, 1 firefish, 1 cleaner wrasse. I know the angel and tang will get bigger but, I don't feel it is overcrowded.

Lighting: Reefbreeders Photon 48 LED
Flow: 1200 GPH pump to and from the sump, 2 Korella 1050 Powerheads, 2 Korella 425 nano powerheads.

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[jroescher]

I had a tomato clown. Just jeep in mind they can get very big. Mine was about the size of my palm.

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[hobogato]

what about a nice haddoni carpet and some orange skunk clowns?

[msmith619]

Actually Ace, that was exactly what I was thinking. I just wanted to make sure someone with experience felt it would work here. I also considered 1 pair of small ORA Orange skunks and one pair of ORA Perculas (I found a site with 0.75"-1" ORA juveniles of both) introduced at the same time with a couple of Haddoni or maybe add a LTA or red BTA. With the 4" deep sand bed, there are 3 nice open areas in the front for sand burrowing anemones.

[hobogato]

i have seen multiple pairs of clowns in the same tank, but more often, one pair is all that will remain long term. the only reason i get away with it is the more passive pink skunks live in the gigantea and the more territorial fancy clowns won't venture in to attack them. any time the pink skunks are out and about, they get chased back to their anemone quickly.

[msmith619]

OK, so I reading about Haddoni being "fish eaters". Lots of posts on them eating yellow tangs, and other open water fish, even some clowns. Is this usually a problem?

[hobogato]

i have read those same stories. my gigantea ate a box fish.