Will my tank support one more fish?

What are you feeding your maroons? I still have a decent supply of copepods, but am looking for alternatives. I've tried frozen mysis, brine shrimp, plankton and krill. Seems like he's more interested in the frozen food since I've added other fish that are partaking of the offerings.

Since he's paired up with the anemone, he's become much more social to humans. Now, if you're watching the tank, he's watching you. If my hand goes in the tank, he's stays right with it. He bites the stone on my ring, but doesnt' mess with the rest of the inhabitants.

One other note, I was told he would not form a relationship with the anemone since he was captive bred. As you can tell by the title of the thread, he loves his anemone, and the anemone seems to be okay. The anemone hasn't eaten since splitting, but the color is great and has nice healthy tentacles.
 
Mainly we feed our maroons (and all our fish) Frozen Formula One, Frozen Mysis, and Freeze Dried Cyclopeeze... Ocassionally some live Brine Shrimp.

As for tank raised taking to an anemone, I think it would be rare for them not to take one if the have the chance. All clownfish want to have some kind of host... Be it an anemone, a clay flower pot, an LPS coral, or just some live rock. In my 125 gallon tank, my Maroon has found a nice area of live rock he/she likes and doesn't leave that area unless it's feeding time, and even then won't go far.

They just seem comfortable in their 'area', no matter what it is. I think it's a piece of what makes clownfish what they are, and one generation of tank breeding them won't get rid of that instinct.
 
That's really interesting. Before he took up with the anemone, he had staked out a section of rock. I wonder if he chose to leave or the yellow watchman goby asked him to move because the goby now has residence in his former home.

I just love this stuff. Always something interesting going on.
 
Originally posted by Guy W
For what it's worth, in my experience Maroon clowns are not as agressive as people have made them out to be. I've had a Maroon in my 125g tank for years, my dad has put one is his tank with no problems, and in our breeder tank we paired up 2 Maroon clowns with no problems and they began to breed after 8 months.

I've never seen any of our Maroons act agressively towards any other fish.

Now thats not to say they aren't DEFENSIVE. they will protect their area of the tank for sure, but I haven't seen them hunt down and kill anything, and all the other fish have figured out pretty quickly that the clown lives over there and the agression is over within a day.

Anyway thats just been my experience.
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That is also my expereince with maroon clowns that are tank breed. Wild ones are more aggressive from my expereience.

Ray
 
Originally posted by knowthemath
What are you feeding your maroons? I still have a decent supply of copepods, but am looking for alternatives. I've tried frozen mysis, brine shrimp, plankton and krill. Seems like he's more interested in the frozen food since I've added other fish that are partaking of the offerings.

Since he's paired up with the anemone, he's become much more social to humans. Now, if you're watching the tank, he's watching you. If my hand goes in the tank, he's stays right with it. He bites the stone on my ring, but doesnt' mess with the rest of the inhabitants.

One other note, I was told he would not form a relationship with the anemone since he was captive bred. As you can tell by the title of the thread, he loves his anemone, and the anemone seems to be okay. The anemone hasn't eaten since splitting, but the color is great and has nice healthy tentacles.
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When ORA first started selling clowns (tank breed) that was heard about them not taking to anemones. I never saw it in my tanks. They all took to anemones except the False percs. The false percs have only seemed to like the RBTA in my tanks. They do go for corals, usually hairy mushrooms.

Ray
 
As to pods, you can set up a small 10 gallon tank to breed pods. then move some every couple of days to the mandarin tank. It is fairly simple to do.

As to food for the maroon. I feed flake and small pellets. I use autofeeders ( ehiem) on most of my tanks. I have a large variety of types and rotate them.

Ray
 
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