Need advice on Clown Fishes

[Mike Stone]

I had a good experience of getting 2 false clownfish lately and they became a pair in my tank, absolutely no fighting. That gave me a false illusion that it is easy to pair clownfishes.

I recently bought another 2 black clownfish and try to pair them in my 3' tank and it turned out a disaster. The 2 of them fought and finally one turn out to be victor and chase the weaker one to the wave maker with torn fins. I tried to introduce my pair of false clownfish into the tank so to distract the fiercer black clownfish and end up it fought with the female false clownfish. Obviously the female clownfish won being bigger size, but the black guy won't give up and still chased after the weaker black clown. I had not choice but the place the fiercer black clown into my nano tank and the other 3 in the 3' tank.

So the 3 clown formed some relationship and always swim together, but in my wish I would love to pair the 3 black clown.

Anyone has the same experience or can give me advice what can be done to achieve my goals?

Some picture to show current status.

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[Mike Stone]

Just realised I posted in wrong forum, can admin help me to move to correct one?


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[Guest]

If you want to pair them should let them be in a different isolated area and introduce them together to a new environment such as isolation box.
You can easily catch the clownfish out by switching on the light during the pitch darkness moment at midnight and the fish will get stun.

You may release the 3 pair into the same tank after the bond is establish but as far as I know the pair might be territorial and start attack other pair to death.


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[Mike Stone]

Actually I only have 2 false crown and 2 black frost. Realised I typed wrongly on numbers on last part of my message.
Of the 4 clowns, 3 are peaceful and one is very fierce, can I put the fierce black clown in the same tank with isolation box and let him see the other and get familiar before I release him.


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[Sherilyn91]

Actually I only have 2 false crown and 2 black frost. Realised I typed wrongly on numbers on last part of my message.
Of the 4 clowns, 3 are peaceful and one is very fierce, can I put the fierce black clown in the same tank with isolation box and let him see the other and get familiar before I release him.


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Yes but they might not pair.. If u wan 2 pair you might need to pair them up individually first.. In ur case maybe 1 will turn female and 3 male..


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[Mike Stone]

I just wish the 2 black frost don't fight anymore and so I can separate the 2 pairs to different tanks.


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[Mike Stone]

Doing this now and the other 3 clowns are nervous..
The weaker black is still trying to challenge the fierce one and the other 2 false clown being a pair is moving far away from the fierce black.




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[Sherilyn91]

When I pair my golden nugget which is more aggressive, I place both in Iso box and let them fight few hours daily.. One will eventually give in.. After fighting I will sep let them break.. Next day fight again.. Slowly one will give in and u can release into DT.. Tt is what I did.. Many methods..


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[Mike Stone]

Sianz, still trying to fight.
Will put it this way for few days to see if the hostility soften....
https://vimeo.com/183117396


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[Mike Stone]

Sianz, still trying to fight.
Will put it this way for few days to see if the hostility soften....
https://vimeo.com/183117396


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[Hilmi21]

But in order for them to determine who is male and who is female there will be aggression among them and the more aggressive will be female. If you wanna pair the black clown put a divider in the iso box and place the black clown one on each side.

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[Hilmi21]

And is there a difference in size of the black clown? In order to reduce aggression one of it must be bigger than the other. For now put them both in iso box with divider for a few days and then try to remove the divider if the aggression is still violent place the divider in again. Hope this helps

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[Mike Stone]

Actually the fiercer black frost is slightly smaller, but FIERCE. He won't even hesitate to fight the female false clown who is 20% bigger.


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[Hilmi21]

Same like mine... my black ice is small but more fiercer than my picasso so i had to do this. Seperate them and let them see each other and get use to it and few days later i will try to remove the divider and see how


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[Guest]

This are my current clown in tank, it wasn't pair and fight for many days. But eventually the larger size allow the smaller one to share the same anemone and they become friend ever since.

In my past experience I got 2 pair black ice and nebula happily living together and suddenly one black ice become dominant and kill the other 3.


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[Hilmi21]

If i were not wrong... you can only have 1 pair of clownfish in one tank. If you have 2 pair in a tank the females will fight with the other female causing one female to die

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