At the zoo in Ohio last week they had a 3 ft tank with live rock and I assume one huge anomone covering almost the whole tank. Anyway this tank has probably 7-10 clownfish in it and my wife was commenting how we should do that with my 4 ft 120 gallon instead of a snake. (She really does not want a snake) can this be done? I know they did it but just because its done once doesn't make it right. And could it really be just one anomone or multiple?
Clownfish and anomone stocking
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The short answer is yes. If you understand the needs of anemones and choose proper lighting.
Even with proper lighting your anemone may still require an occasional feeding.
Water quality will need to be kept up anemones can go down hill quickly otherwise. Even after the tank is fully cycled nitrates must be kept low.
The next thing you should think about is water movement many of an anemone had been chopped up by power heads.
I would recommend any power head have a prefilter sponge placed over the intake.
Even with proper lighting your anemone may still require an occasional feeding.
Water quality will need to be kept up anemones can go down hill quickly otherwise. Even after the tank is fully cycled nitrates must be kept low.
The next thing you should think about is water movement many of an anemone had been chopped up by power heads.
I would recommend any power head have a prefilter sponge placed over the intake.
The thumb rule of most reef keeper is your tank/system need at least 1 year old of age to keep anomone, it's not a beginner inverterbrate (I'm not saying you are newbie). Also, the size of the anomone must be 3x time bigger than a clownfish. EX: to host a 2 inches clownfish then your anomone need to be around 6 inches diameter to host 1 fish. Whats if you get the anomone too small to host a clownfish? Your clownfish is actually bother the anomone to their death.
So set up a tank let it mature and get an anomone grow it out then add clowns ? Seems doable long process but definitely doable, I'm not new to salt had one like 8 years ago for 2 years then went back to fresh
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I did read on the web that you can only keep one pair of clowns anymore and they'd kill each other ? But yes it would not be something that is rushed, I also heard or read to be more correct that even getting more then one anomone and they will kill each other. So yes lots of reaseach is what I'd definitely need, but at least this gives me great starting points
Best to keep 1 pair because if you keep more than 2 then a pecking order will need to be in place and the biggest one will become FEMALE and will be constant harass all other clowns to keep them in check and keep them to stay male, that would make other very stress out and might die in long term.
Well, it can be done since your already saw the setup in a public aquarium
(if you can find a huge anomone)It will be hard to find a big anomone for your setup, also in the public aquarium even you saw a tank only 3 feets long but they are in a system of thousand if not a millions gallons setup, you are limited only for 120G setup
so that big anomone quite hard to keep in that limited volume of water.Edit:
Also, I think those clowns you saw in public aquarium is the most peaceful species of clownfish, they are professional and everything are calculated to the max compatible and the health of all living thing in the tank.
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Yea I was looking at giant carpet anemone, it seems to host a couple different clown fish. So it gives me a few options, net says it gets to 19.5 inches, and as long as tank is properly set up I could keep two of same species, so two anemones and like 7-10 fish give or take depending on more research. So I'd have to find out as much as I can about the anemone then I can move forward with the tank and buying all the equipment and setting it up to mature