COMMON CLOWN

[jun]

Common clown is suppose easy to rear ... why everytime i bought back it always dies the next day.... it seems to be the clown fish dieases ... coz i saw white patches on the body...

yesterday i bought 3 common clown...and today i saw all 3 got white patches on it....and then it is dead.

the other types of fishes has no problem...and is doin well ....

all in all i hav 6 common clown dead in my tank.

is this the LFS poor quality of fishes?? or is my problem???

[Achilles Tang]

They are susceptible to a lot of diseases.

You have to check if they are quarantined well before selecting a healthy specimen.

When you do... they can last a long time.

[jun]

They are susceptible to a lot of diseases.

You have to check if they are quarantined well before selecting a healthy specimen.

When you do... they can last a long time.

how to check if they are quarantined well ??

btw ... i select my clown from a tank holding 100++ over of common clowns....

[bryanong]

You can dose Octozin in your quarantine tank when you first bought your clowns to prevent any disease. It will treat clown disease.

[Alvin Tan]

how to check if they are quarantined well ??

btw ... i select my clown from a tank holding 100++ over of common clowns....

check if the LFS have proper quarantine facilities in the shop...(:

[monpire]

Buy from another LFS bro

[mansiz]

Yes, you should look for LFS that hold good common clowns. One of them is Marine Life. Henry do have some good common clowns from time to time. Don't buy them from farms. I notice that farms like to order a big batch of common clowns, even more than 200 pieces, and due to their low pricing, they will just junk them into a small tank or maybe junk them all into a big blue plastic tub. The best way is to quarantine them before you intro them to the main display tank. Many claim that common clowns are the easiest clown to keep. But in fact, it is one of the most difficult clown to keep, as they are always ship poorly. Maroon/tomato/clarkii are on the other way, much more easier.

[jun]

Yes, you should look for LFS that hold good common clowns. One of them is Marine Life. Henry do have some good common clowns from time to time. Don't buy them from farms. I notice that farms like to order a big batch of common clowns, even more than 200 pieces, and due to their low pricing, they will just junk them into a small tank or maybe junk them all into a big blue plastic tub. The best way is to quarantine them before you intro them to the main display tank. Many claim that common clowns are the easiest clown to keep. But in fact, it is one of the most difficult clown to keep, as they are always ship poorly. Maroon/tomato/clarkii are on the other way, much more easier.

ya .... i bought from pasir ris farm.....at $1 each....is lik 3ft tank...holding more than 100++ common clown..

is it tat all those cheap cheap common clown not advisable to buy ??

btw...can i do quarantine by using container with holes and float it on my main tank?? or i need to use seperate container with the same main tank water ??

[searching4dan]

hey bro.. my clowns share the same fate as urs man

my 1st pair i got it from farmway 1 or 2 (the other side of pasir ris farm)

one air conditioned LFS.. (some reefers might noe each one i am refering to)

i bought 2 golden common clowns @ $2 each

last me for abt 1 month each then MIA one by one within the main tank..

not even the corpse could be found..

similarly i bought my 3rd common clown from the farm, also $1 each!

i chose a BIG fat one, ( 3-4inches guy)

last me for abt 3days..

it decided to jumped outta the water and ended its life

myb cannot tahan my damsel's irritation??

saddened by it! i decided not to buy anymore clowns..

so i suggest if u realli is keen on clowns

get it from other reefers when they decomm or WTS..

might be healthier than those in the farms..

to me, buying from farm is always cheaper

but its kinda gambling with it

i bought a twin spotted goby

juz one nite only.. no where to be seen!!

mystery no one can explain!!

haha..

[eurekas]

brother got acclimatise the fish ?

[searching4dan]

if u are asking me

my answer is YES..

[jun]

think i stop buying common clown liao....

maybe juz hav one tomato clown instead....guess tomato clown wil be more hardy than common clown

[m203]

itz true i once bought the common clowns n both last for abt 1wk...as for my pair of tomato clown n a pair of sumatra clown still ok n been wif me abt 1yr.....

[jun]

itz true i once bought the common clowns n both last for abt 1wk...as for my pair of tomato clown n a pair of sumatra clown still ok n been wif me abt 1yr.....

can hav two tomato clown together ? urs is a mated pair? if not.....no fighting ??

[Alvin Tan]

can hav two tomato clown together ? urs is a mated pair? if not.....no fighting ??

if u intro both at the same time....it will cause less fighting or most of the time even no fighting at all..

[m203]

i bought it at different timing as for the 1st tomato as been few months then i put in the second tomato n till now they've been in the same anemone n swimming ard together.....

[searching4dan]

wat abt skunk clowns??

anyone keeping them?

anyone has any comments on them??

[nakazoru]

Hi folks;

No fish is esay to keep with exception of demsel with a record breaking tolerance to most undesirable water condition.

Even though we test our water with all available test kit showing good results, fishes still perish. Reason being that the water is far from being conditioned. We can only guess the reason. We also took the risk by adding more fishes.

When I first started, I kill more fishes than I can imagine, one fish a week not knowing the reason. Even the common clown.

Comparing now and six years ago, I learn some things that test kits cannot tell you. LR and reef will need to experience growth before you can say water is matured. I do look for sign as:

1. mini Tube worms in LR, if you dun see any or not propagating beware.

2. macro algae, add a little if you can, if it does not grow or even dies out. Beware.

3. Pods - It takes me 3 months to see the propagate after seeding

These are my visual measurement of the water.

[little bull]

sorry .. abut off topic, how is the pods look like huh??

[m203]

actually the easiest way to test water is by yellow tail damsel.....coz when the water condition is bad its color will change to black.....juz my 2cent....

[jun]

today ... my last common clown is dead....guess it is being stress out by the newly added tomato clown. the tomato clown always chase the common clown.

7 common clown dead in my tank in all.

most of them is dead after days/week, newly added in.

guess i wil stopin buyin common clown liao.

do u guys think maroon clown wil hav a higher survival rate than common clown when meeting with my tomato clown ??

[gerrard_boon]

y dun u tell the others the LS u are keeping? perhaps there are some more aggresive creatures disturing the clowns hence stressing them to death....

[Marinesavy]

clown fishes can fight alot for territory, use to keep normal false clown, skunk and tomato clown.. they don't really get along very well.. as such i sold away my skunk and tomato clown to another reefer.. now left with a false and a true perc which indeed they get along very well...

[searching4dan]

bro.. are ur skunkies very aggressive oso??

tot of buying a pair..

will they fight with other fishes too??

[gerrard_boon]

i believe the Ocellaris are the only clowns that are proven to be friendly...