Some questions about maroon gold band clowns.

I have a maroon gold band clown who is doing great, he/she/it is about 2 3/4 - 3" atm and removeing the substrate from around his/her LR cave as we speek. I was wondering if I leave this one charicter as the only clown in the tank will he/she automatically grow to be a large female? Or could he just stay a smaller he?

Also despite the fact that my Condy Anemone is doing well my tank is still quite new and I want to wait a few more months before trying to keep a bubble tip. If I were to get a bubble tip for him do you think he would quit being a digger fish? And how much of a snack risk do you think I would run with haveing a porcupine puffer in the tank?

FLESHY;4411186; said:

With Maroons the dominant fish in the system will become a female, and unless I am mistaken, will be permanently changed that way.

This being said, maroons like to play with the substrate, and I think that she will do this regardless of whether or not you have an anemone.

Lastly Maroons are pretty feisty, and unless there was a large size discrepancy I doubt that the porcupine would give her much trouble.

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LOL cool, I dont mind watching her play in the sand it's pretty entertaining. So will my clown become a she if she is the only one? or are they a kinky fish and only take on the female gender if she has somone to dominate?