How many clownfish

How many clownfish make a good number? The reason I ask is that we
added 3 perculas to our 75 gallon, and for the first 4 days, they all
swam together, but now, it looks like 2 of them "paired" up and the
other looks so lonely. What should I do? Get another clownfish? Get
rid of the "extra" clownfish?

Thoughts? Ideas?

Nick

Sand, I can't speak for Nick, but for me at least, not all posts show up. So
I may not know that a subject was discussed recently.:-)
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Joe Fisher
Teacher, K-8
Kalispell, MT
"Sand ******" wrote in message
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Why not read the other posts? This was review just recently.

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
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How many clownfish make a good number?

This seems to be exactly what happened. A few days ago, or whenever
the other posts were posted, I did not have this question, and now
today, the other posts are no longer stored at my news provider.


On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:36:13 -0600, "Joe Fisher"
wrote:

Sand, I can't speak for Nick, but for me at least, not all posts show up. So
I may not know that a subject was discussed recently.:-)

So, will the one always be a "loner?" Or will he start socializing
again? You are right that the largest and second largest (not by
much, though) have "paired."

Nick


On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:39:13 -0500, "Adam" wrote:


"Nick Buol" wrote in message
.. .
How many clownfish make a good number? The reason I ask is that we
added 3 perculas to our 75 gallon, and for the first 4 days, they all
swam together, but now, it looks like 2 of them "paired" up and the
other looks so lonely. What should I do? Get another clownfish? Get
rid of the "extra" clownfish?

Thoughts? Ideas?

Nick

My guess would be that the two that paired up would be the larger of the
three (maybe). What is probably going on is that you will soon have a
female, a male and a juvenile (the one by itself being the juv and still
unsexed). They should all be ok together. If you add more they might not
get along because the new one might try to break the hierarchy that from
what you are saying has already been established. Also if one of the new
ones that you get is already sexed (not really any way to tell), You will
most likely wake up to one or more floaters.

I'm pretty new here but Clowns are my thing. The rest of you folks here may
now check my FIRST attempt at being the helper instead of the helpie.

No. Your newsreader is deleting them. Reset the message history.

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
news I did a search for all posts on clownfish, by my news provider had
already deleted any other posts on the subject.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:30:13 GMT, "Sand ******"
wrote:

Why not read the other posts? This was review just recently.

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
.. .
How many clownfish make a good number? The reason I ask is that we
added 3 perculas to our 75 gallon, and for the first 4 days, they all
swam together, but now, it looks like 2 of them "paired" up and the
other looks so lonely. What should I do? Get another clownfish? Get
rid of the "extra" clownfish?

Thoughts? Ideas?

Nick

No, my news provider no longer has them. I already tried resetting
themessage history, and I went as far as deleting the entire newsgroup
, closing my reader, opening it back up, downloaded all of the
newsgroups again, subscribed, got all messages for the newsgroup, and
yes, there are more messages now, but none about clownfish, except
some message about spawning clownfish.

Thanks anyway. I wish you were right.

Nick

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:05:35 GMT, "Robert" wrote:

No. Your newsreader is deleting them. Reset the message history.

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
news I did a search for all posts on clownfish, by my news provider had
already deleted any other posts on the subject.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:30:13 GMT, "Sand ******"
wrote:

Why not read the other posts? This was review just recently.

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
. ..
How many clownfish make a good number? The reason I ask is that we
added 3 perculas to our 75 gallon, and for the first 4 days, they all
swam together, but now, it looks like 2 of them "paired" up and the
other looks so lonely. What should I do? Get another clownfish? Get
rid of the "extra" clownfish?

Thoughts? Ideas?

Nick

"Sand ******" wrote in message
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Why not read the other posts? This was review just recently.


If it were reviewed just recently, the word clownfish was not in the
subject.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...nfish&btnG=Goo
gle+Search&meta=group%3Drec.aquaria.marine.reefs

However, the word "troll" came up several times...

~Mort

I'm pretty new here but Clowns are my thing. The rest of you folks here may
now check my FIRST attempt at being the helper instead of the helpie.


congrats

--
Richard Reynolds

there is this tool called groups.google.com

and if you have some bad feelings about google, there are others

however ill answer it in another post at the . of this thread
--
Richard Reynolds

"Nick Buol" wrote in message
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So, will the one always be a "loner?" Or will he start socializing
again? You are right that the largest and second largest (not by
much, though) have "paired."

Nick

you didnt give us enough information, what you really need to do is tell us how long they
have been in the tank. and about how big they are. however

you can only have 1 female clown
you can only have 1 male clown
you can have as many juv clowns as you feel like

for any reason you dont have one of the following these rules will apply

if you dont have a female and you do have a male it will change to a female
if you dont have a female or a male then the juv will convert to a female
if you have a female and dont have a male a juv will convert to a male
if you dont have either a male or a female one will convert to a female then another will
convert to a male
what ever is left stays a juv

if however

if you have a male and add a male it will be a fight to the death
if you have a female and add a female it will be a fight to the death
juv's dont really fight for teratory only upgrading to a male/female

this will take some time and the selection is usually domanance in a few instances a death
occurs in picking dominance


I hope i havent left anything out, its been posted a few times over the last few months,
and my "table" is getting better looking/organized, one of these days ill setup a few
responses for these kinds of questions but for now I retype them each time there needed.

--
Richard Reynolds