should I move my maroon clown?

Okay so I have two 75gal tanks, which you can click on my signature to see the specs. One tank has a foxface, sixline wrasse, maroon clown, royal gramma basslet & lawnmower blenny. The other tank has a clarkii and a blue hippo tang.

The sixline has becmoing more and more aggresive as it's getting bigger towards the fish less than or equal to its size, which are the royal gramma and maroon. The royal gramma can hide in rocks but the maroon is getting abused, her fins are always ripped and its getting worse. By the way she does not host an anemone.

I've read not to mix different types of clown fish but I've also read people do it often. Is it a horrible idea to try to catch this maroon and put her in with my clarkii & blue hippo? My clarkii and blue hippo are good friends and have never been agressive towards each other at all. The clarkii has an anemone that he loves yet does not defend it against me or the blue hippo, he's very docile, or at least it seems that way. The clarkii & blue hippo are about 2" long and the maroon is about 1". Like I said this is a 75gal tank so there is plenty of room (pics included in linnk in my signature).

So should I move her or is this a bad idea?

 

If it is getting beat up why not move him. The worst that could happen is he could get beat up there and the best that could happen is they live fine. Alot better then whay you have now.

 

Is your Clarkii a male? How big is he/she? How big is the maroon and are you sure it is a female?

 

Why not just move the six-line?

 

the clarkii isn't aggressive towards any other fish yet, just wait till you throw that maroon in there, i feel like it'll be real aggressive towards the maroon as it will defend against the maroon.. put it this way, imo either way the maroon will be attacked by the clarkii.. either they will battle to determine who is the female and HOPEFULLY eventually get along, or the clarkii will just be beating on the maroon because of the anemone.. maroons are very likely to attempt to host with anemone when given one, +1 on getting rid of six-line

 

I am not sure of the gender of the Clarkii, it is about 2" long. The maroon was one of two that I had and it was a female of the pair. The other maroon disappeared, I am assuming the one I have stayed female.

That might be the best idea.

I've been trying to catch the clown without success. I think I'll make the 20oz bottle trap to catch whoever, because I know catching the wrasse, even with a net will be next to impossible.

The tank I want to move one of them to does not have a LOT of rock yet, but I am still adding more, I wonder if it's enough for the wrasse? If you look at the tank pics on my signature, the 2nd pic is the tank I want to move a fish to. You can see the clarkii and blue hippo. They spend all their time together around those rocks and the seabe. Maybe I'll have to get more rock for the rest of the tank so the wrasse isn't trying to invade their space?

 

The wrasse would make a better candidate to move IMO. One clown per tank is the general rule, and I think the clarkii would end up bullied in the end. Don't know if clowns compete for anemones, but if they do......my money goes to the maroon hands down.

 

Okay cool I think that makes more sense. I'll try to trap the wrasse. And just for the refrence, my maroon is the biggest wimp!!! She did always beat up on her other maroon friend though, so maybe she's particular to clowns.

 

If I were you I would attempt to move the six-line and if that does not work then move the maroon. Hopefully the clarkii is a male so he won't be as aggressive and bold as the maroon. Although the presence of the anemone will significantly increase the aggressiveness of the clarkii when defending it, it might be better than your other situation.

 

I see all this stuff about clowns guarding their anemone's from other fish and even the hand that feeds. My clarkii does not care, the blue hippo gets very close and even touches it's tentacles sometimes. At first I swear she was considering entering the anemone with the clarkii since they seem to be such close friends. I can also hand feed the anemone, the clown let's me and doesn't even try to eat the anemone's food. These things in mind was why I considered putting the clown in...