Greetings from the deep, you filthy land dwellers!

[Poseidon's Ugly Brother]

Hello all,
It has been a good decade since I have had a reef tank. I live in central Oregon where there is very little interest in the hobby, so I'm kinda on my own out here. A buddy of mine moved and didn't want to take his 29g biocube with him so I took it over and have had it for about a month and a half. Within that time I have turned this take from a 3/10 to about a 8/10. Water chem is on point but there is just a little bit of hair algae I can't get rid of. No big deal though.
The only have two fish, a orange snowflake clown and a six line wrasse. I think I'm at a point now that I can start adding some new fish. Yay!
My question of the day for all you reef freaks is this; I really want a black and white snowflake clown but I'm not sure if it would pair with my orange one or not? What do you think? My LFS has a premo ORA black snowflake right now but it's pretty much the exact same size as my orange one. I'm assuming this would make thing even more difficult.
Anyway, let me get some of that knowledge from you!
Thanks!

 

[kschweer]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R and back to the hobby. I would wait and get a second clown that is significantly smaller than your existing resident. It will better your chances in my opinion.

 

[Salty1962]

Welcome to R2R! I wouldn't go with the same sized clown, they will most likely fight it out. Watch out for that Six-line when adding new fish, they can get very nasty!

 

[Poseidon's Ugly Brother]

Good to know. Do you think they will have any problem pairing up if one is orange and one is black?

 

[Butitor]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Poseidon's Ugly Brother]

Welcome to R2R and back to the hobby. I would wait and get a second clown that is significantly smaller than your existing resident. It will better your chances in my opinion.

What about the color difference? Is that normally a problem?

 

[Poseidon's Ugly Brother]

Welcome to R2R! I wouldn't go with the same sized clown, they will most likely fight it out. Watch out for that Six-line when adding new fish, they can get very nasty!

I'm going to have to rehome the six-line, he is already a jerk to my clown and they are established tank mates

 

[Rick cowen]

I'm going to have to rehome the six-line, he is already a jerk to my clown and they are established tank mates

Welcome to R2R, sorry about the wrasse, I've had the same problem before.

 

[gacolt]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[Joker Corals]

Welcome to R2R.

 

[kireek]

*Welcome to Reef2Reef @Poseidon's Ugly Brother !* I think if they are both the same type of clowns it will be okay.The color is not so much of a issue as the size.They are simply too close too call.Let me double check with the #REEFSQUAD.

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R!!!

 

[jsker]

Welcome to R2R, and back to reefing.

 

[JaimeAdams]

The color difference makes no difference at all.

 

[Jisko]

Welcome home!

 

[Maritimer]

Welcome aboard, ya soggy denizen of the deep! (~_^)

Unlike some humans I've met, and as mentioned by several above me, clownfish care little for color. Black? Orange? White? All seem equally attractive to another clown of the same species.

Two that are of similar size, especially if that size is "large adult"? _That_ isn't going to work out so well.

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

Welcome home, you will love it here!

You can't post like this without before and after pics!! . At least post pics of now!

 

[jrwoltman]

Welcome!!!

 

[Poseidon's Ugly Brother]