Adding a Tomato Clown??

[MACH5]

I have a fairly established 90 gal reef tank. Among my fish I have a mated pair of black perculas. In addition I have a Tomato clown in a nano that I would like to transfer into this tank. Would this be ok to do??

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

 

[D1J8Z]

Tomato clowns are extremely territorial, I personally would not add this fish.

 

[meloncoral]

Yea don't do it.........they get nasty..big mistake!!

 

[MACH5]

Thank you guys! I was afraid that was the case that's why I asked first.

 

[ravi197699]

do not add tomato to your main tank it will exhaust other clowns until they die. my two semi picaso clown just killed caramel clown that has been with them for a year and i found about it when i saw both clowns are after my caramel clown and took off all of her fins. don't take a chance

 

[samksy]

DO NOT ADD. You'll regret. they bite you like crazy when you put your hand in the tank. I want to kill my tomato clown badly when i had it. they might not do it now, but they'll get worst....imagine you try to aquascape or glue frags, they come to attack you as long as you have your hand in the tank.

 

[NL146]

I have a pair I'm trying to get rid of, er find a nice home for. As said before, they are extremely territorial. The only fish they are completely passive around is my naso tang. They are always moving things around. Mine (the female) is very aggressive and every now and again kicks up a sand storm, especially now that it seems they're looking somewhere to move to. She goes all over the tank moving sand and the male just follows her lead. At times I feel like reaching into the tank and...

In my experience they are very hardy though.

 

[MACH5]

Thank so much for all of your responses guys! This was very helpful and WILL NOT add my tomato to the tank.

 

[NewfiDog]

You really shoudlnt add any clown out of the percular family as they may fight, and black perculars can be nasty.