[Reticentregret]

i read a gold stripe maroon clown is a bad reef addition? i read that the females are more agressive than males though. i want one though they are cool ..... also is a bubble tip anenome good for them?

[Taras1]

I have maroon clowns w/a BTA along with a powder brown tang, lawnmower blennie, bicolor blennie, green chromis and Scott's fairy wrasse in a 90 Gal reef. the fishes get along fine. They guard their anemone and "bite" me when I do tank maintanance. I bought them as tank raised/juveniles. I would get at least 2 juveniles. It's interesting to see them grow up. One usually will turn into a dominant female. Aggressiveness is relative.

[Reticentregret]

oh i kinda wanted a mated pair do they have tank raised mated pairs?or even young mated pairs? and will they host bubble tip or do i need carpet and if i do get carpet can i also get bubble tip?

[Taras1]

I've seen "mated pairs" on some of the web sites. These are usually pairs that have been used as breeding stock.

The maroons host in BTA's, or at least mine did. If your tank is big enough and you have enough light, I don't see why you can't have both a BTA and carpet. I'd be careful though, I had a really nice condy and then added the BTA. My BTA followed the condy around the tank and eventually killed the condy, so I suspect.

In nature clowns can change sex. Usually there's a dominant female and several males, one of which is dominant. When the female dies this dominant male gets larger and becomes the dominant female, while one of the other males will become dominant.

In a previous tank I bought two juvenile tomatoes, which paired up in their BTA. One became the female, the other, the male. They did breed. This whole process took about 1 - 1 1/2 years. In my present tank, I bought a BTA and three juvie maroon clowns. Already, one looks like it's much larger and dominant; I think this one will be the female. One of the other two is slightly larger and looks like it's going to be the dominant male. All three live happily in their BTA. We'll see if they lay eggs or not.

[Taras1]

Recicent -- I may have goofed. Here's a thread which specifically addressed maroons.

Reef Central Online Community - Pairing Clownfish.

I may be headed for disaster since this site says the "growup" method I described above doesn't work for this species. :-(

[jade4286]

i have a bonded pair of gold stripe maroons, they've been together for 4 years now and are doing great , as to reef compatibility, they dont seem to bother any of the other inhabitants (coral banded shrimp, coral beauty, scooter blennie, 2 serpent stars, assorted soft corals) other then re-positioning one of the serpent stars if it gets too close to their corner of the tank, the little male maroon seems to like a couple of the mushrooms in the tank...

[Taras1]

Originally Posted by jade4286

i have a bonded pair of gold stripe maroons, they've been together for 4 years now and are doing great , as to reef compatibility, they dont seem to bother any of the other inhabitants (coral banded shrimp, coral beauty, scooter blennie, 2 serpent stars, assorted soft corals) other then re-positioning one of the serpent stars if it gets too close to their corner of the tank, the little male maroon seems to like a couple of the mushrooms in the tank...

How'd you do it?

[walkerj14]

i also have a gold banded maroon clown,, and it gets along well with all its tank mates,,, i have a bubble tipped aneonomie and a purple long tenacled aneomie,,, the clown make a home in each,,,,, the clown also has learned to take a piece of shrimp from my hand or on top of the water and take it down and feeds the long tenacled aneomonie.....

great fish!!!

[Reticentregret]

awsome im so happy to know i could keep one thanks everybody for you info.