How aggressive are maroon clowns?

[Mr-Moonlight]

Hi!

I have a wild caught pair of maroon clowns... I bought them fully grown
and therefore they are quite large. My problem is that I have tried to
add another couple of fish to my system but have failed because both
have died.

Is this due to my Maroon clown female? She does seem to be a bit
aggressive...

Also how much should she be fed? I am following my local fish guys
recomendation but she eats all the food I give her in about 2 mins
flat...

Any thoughts?

Dan

[CheezWiz]

You have what may be the most aggressive kind of clown.
Does she spit gravel at you?

How big is your tank? Do they have an anemone?
How many times a day are you feeding them?

CW
"Mr-Moonlight" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Hi!
>
> I have a wild caught pair of maroon clowns... I bought them fully grown
> and therefore they are quite large. My problem is that I have tried to
> add another couple of fish to my system but have failed because both
> have died.
>
> Is this due to my Maroon clown female? She does seem to be a bit
> aggressive...
>
> Also how much should she be fed? I am following my local fish guys
> recomendation but she eats all the food I give her in about 2 mins
> flat...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dan
>

[Mr-Moonlight]

Thanks for the reply....

She doesn't spit gravel but she does hound the male till he does....
She will bite if I put my hand in the tank though...

The tank is 45 uk gal. They don't have an anemone as the tank is only 4
months old and the shop says the tank is too young for one...

I am only feeding once per day as that is what I was instructed to
do... Mainly frozen brine shrimp (which she goes nutts for) and marine
mix. Only half a small cube of each on alternate days...

I have checked with another shop and they agree the quantity but it
doesn't LOOK enough to me...

Any further thoughts...?

[Charles Spitzer]

"Mr-Moonlight" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Hi!
>
> I have a wild caught pair of maroon clowns... I bought them fully grown
> and therefore they are quite large. My problem is that I have tried to
> add another couple of fish to my system but have failed because both
> have died.
>
> Is this due to my Maroon clown female? She does seem to be a bit
> aggressive...
>
> Also how much should she be fed? I am following my local fish guys
> recomendation but she eats all the food I give her in about 2 mins
> flat...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dan

i have one about 15 years old. it's not too aggressive, but have kept large
angels/tangs/wrasses in with it.

fish need food about the size of their eye each day, as a general rule.
ymmv.

[perkinskr]

the frozen brine should be a treat more than astaple diet. Brine shrimp are
not natural and being wild caught the brine could present problems down the
road. ie HLLD. try mysis shrimp. (bad spelling sorrry)



"Mr-Moonlight" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Thanks for the reply....
>
> She doesn't spit gravel but she does hound the male till he does....
> She will bite if I put my hand in the tank though...
>
> The tank is 45 uk gal. They don't have an anemone as the tank is only 4
> months old and the shop says the tank is too young for one...
>
> I am only feeding once per day as that is what I was instructed to
> do... Mainly frozen brine shrimp (which she goes nutts for) and marine
> mix. Only half a small cube of each on alternate days...
>
> I have checked with another shop and they agree the quantity but it
> doesn't LOOK enough to me...
>
> Any further thoughts...?
>

[CheezWiz]

I feed more than the "eye" rule myself.
I feed crushed flake and tablet food twice a day when I am at work via an
automatic feeder.
Each night I feed a home-made slurry of frozen table shrimp, spinach, sea
scallops, spirulina, selcon, microvert, and color enhancing granular. The
slurry covers the other stuff in my tank as well as the clowns.
It ends up in the corals, shrimps, crabs, starfish, anemone, LM Blenny and
Red Headed goby.

I have a bickering pair of Amph. O's my self... most tame but still moody.
It is recommended that mated pairs of maroons be separated for a short
period after a transfer because the female will be so ****y that she will
abuse the male. Kinda like watching COPS responding to Domestic Violence
calls..

I would highly recommend this book:
Clownfishes
by Joyce D. Wilkerson

Are you planning on this as a reef tank, breeding tank or Fish Only with
Live Rock?

"Mr-Moonlight" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Thanks for the reply....
>
> She doesn't spit gravel but she does hound the male till he does....
> She will bite if I put my hand in the tank though...
>
> The tank is 45 uk gal. They don't have an anemone as the tank is only 4
> months old and the shop says the tank is too young for one...
>
> I am only feeding once per day as that is what I was instructed to
> do... Mainly frozen brine shrimp (which she goes nutts for) and marine
> mix. Only half a small cube of each on alternate days...
>
> I have checked with another shop and they agree the quantity but it
> doesn't LOOK enough to me...
>
> Any further thoughts...?
>

[Mr-Moonlight]

The tank will be reef and fish. It has about 27Kg of live rock in and a
couple of corals. She abused the hell out of a Royal Gramma Basslet I
put in there and a Lemon Peel Angel lasted 4 days....

I just hope I can eventually put something else in or they are going
back!

I've heard of the home made recipe you refer to... Maybe I'll mix some
up...