Clown fish
- Thread starter Yonkers28
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- Location
- New Jersey
Have the other too been paired up already? If so mosty like your 2 clowns will kill the third clown since they have been in the tank for a long time already and have become terrior in the tank.
No you can't. Your Female will fight with the new addition until one is dead or has jumped out of tank. Most likely the new addition will be killed.
Damn there that aggressive? I havnt added a new fish in forever. The reason is the other day I was doing a water change and I shut my mp10 off. Then when I went to turn it back on I didn't see that my 6 line was in there 
And now he's dead
And now he's dead
In a bigger tank you would have a good chance, but in a 29 there is no where for the new addition to hide. If your clowns have been in the same tank together for 2 years, then 1 is a female. It would be very odd if they were both male or both female.
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
Many factors in the possibility of adding a new clowns. Assuming your new fish is not similar size as the old ones and if you have a separate temp hospital tank, you can make the original feel like they are the new guys.
1)Prepare your hospital tank ready to QT you new fish
2)At the ending day of the QT, drip acclimate it to the new tank water.
3)Catch the Old clowns and put them in the hospital tank.
4)Rearrange the aquascape and put the new fish in the DT
5)5 days later, put 1 of the 2 old fish from the hospital into the DT.
6)Fighting should be minimal. If it turns very violent then trade the fish away.
7)3 days later introduce the last one back into the DT
I am pretty sure the two old fish will recognize each other but much less likely to gang up on the new guy.
I frequently move clownfish from one tank to another and realized they can remember their friends and mates if the separation are not too long.
Last week, I just move 2 Platinums that lived together for ~2 years into a smaller cubicle with 2 Sanjay fish plus one more platinum. Because all 5 fish feel like they are the new guys, none of them show any aggression towards each other even though in the old 60G, the two old Platinums will fight a little once awhile.
1)Prepare your hospital tank ready to QT you new fish
2)At the ending day of the QT, drip acclimate it to the new tank water.
3)Catch the Old clowns and put them in the hospital tank.
4)Rearrange the aquascape and put the new fish in the DT
5)5 days later, put 1 of the 2 old fish from the hospital into the DT.
6)Fighting should be minimal. If it turns very violent then trade the fish away.
7)3 days later introduce the last one back into the DT
I am pretty sure the two old fish will recognize each other but much less likely to gang up on the new guy.
I frequently move clownfish from one tank to another and realized they can remember their friends and mates if the separation are not too long.
Last week, I just move 2 Platinums that lived together for ~2 years into a smaller cubicle with 2 Sanjay fish plus one more platinum. Because all 5 fish feel like they are the new guys, none of them show any aggression towards each other even though in the old 60G, the two old Platinums will fight a little once awhile.
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- Location
- New Jersey
1+ i myself didnt know how to example it will Phil thanks :thrash:
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