Thanks, Don.
I'm a bit leery of the maroon clowns since what I read says they are among
the most territorial of the clowns. They sure are beautiful, though. I am
trying to keep the tank as peaceful as possible (no purple tang, sigh). I
have seen tanks full of aggressive (freshwater) fish before, and known
people that successfully kept agressive (freshwater) fish, but every time I
tried it, they always killed each other and I lost some fish and others just
got bullied until I could get the store to take them back. It was tragic.
Fresh water cichlids, both African and Central American. I read up
extensively on both before setting the tanks up, too.
If anyone has maroon clowns with other very peaceful fish, please let me
know. If any one has maroon "bullies" please let me know that aswell.
Thanks again.
"Don Geddis" wrote in message
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"August West" wrote on Thu, 06 Jul
2006:
I'm not sure of how ocellaris like a bubble tip. I've heard mixed
results.
Mixed results is the correct answer. Ocellaris/quadricolor matches aren't
observed in nature, but sometimes happen in captivity. But hard to count
on
it if you want to be sure.
I'd rather have a few ocellaris than 1 or 2 clarkii clowns, but
could live with either choice.
E. quadricolor (aka bubble-tip) anemones probably have the widest variety
of
natural hosting clowns of any anemone. So you've got a lot of choices if
you
get a bubble tip. Unfortunately, the most common clown (ocellaris) and
the
most common anemone (bubble-tip) are _not_ natural partners.
Still, you might get lucky. (On the other hand, I had four ocellaris and
three rose [bubble-tip] anemones for a year in a tank, and the clowns
never
showed the slightest interest in the anemones. I eventually swapped out
the
ocellaris clowns for a maroon clown, who dove into the anemone within
about
five minutes of getting in the tank.)
-- Don
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