SWfreshmen31

i have a pj cardinal,yellow clown goby,Psychedelic Mandarinfish , and i am planning on getting 2 ocellaris clowns next week. would it be safe to get a yellowtail damselfish?? or a chromis but i dont want it to feel lonly cause i'll only get one.
Its a 26 gallon bow front

ATP

chromis are less agressive (if not agressive at all) than yellow tail

SWfreshmen31

Will it do ok by itself without any other chromis?

ATP

I'm not sure, but my guess is it should be ok. (it's just a guess)

SWfreshmen31

okayyyyy... anyone else's opinion
(can the yellow tail go together with corals and/or anenomes?)

ATP

The yellow tail is fine with corals and anemones (unless the yellow tail goes into the anemone and gets eaten, but that's never happen to my chromis except for one time I had a chromis that it's tail got ripped of by my yellow watchman and it couldn't swim and went into my RBTA)

Oh. and anemones are kinda big for a 26 gal.

SWfreshmen31

well i looked at the anenome i want to get at the LFS and its was pretty small and the clown was swimming around in it. and next month ill get a chromis cause i dont want to risk the yellowtail harming my yellow clown goby cause hes only about a inch or less. and if the zoos to good ill get a mushroom frag
(getting clowns 2moro and a zoanthid frags! )

ATP

Ok.

Just letting you know that they grow pretty fast. Anemone's also requires metal halides. My RBTA (BTA's are considered pretty small for an anemone) is about 6-7 inches diameter if he opens up, but mine likes to stay wedged between rocks so it looks small. You also need to feed them.

What kind of anemone are you looking at?

SWfreshmen31

at first it was a Magnificent Anemone but now i rather go with the bubble tip(thats what you mean by BTA right?)

ATP

Yes, almost all anemones requires a matured tank though. You should only add them after 6 months, but preferably a year.

SWfreshmen31

y do they need a mature tank?

ATP

Their sensitive and usually dies in your tank if you add them early.

SWfreshmen31

yeah ill just wait...i put my 2 false perculas in about an hour and a half ago!!!!and a little zoo frag with alot of polyps on it

steve_58

How long you had the mandarin fish? Those are usually hard to keep because they don't usually eat anything but copepods,amphipods and isopods and such.A lot of people buy them and they only live a little while because they starve to death.If you aint had him long you might want to make sure he is getting food.

SWfreshmen31

I got him maybe a month or more ago and he's doing fine, constantly picking on the rocks and sand and sometimes he eats the frozen foods

locoyo386

Hi there, the chromis, yellow tai damsel or azure damsel would be fine. They would be better alone aswell. That will help them be less aggressive (damsels). The chromis is the least aggressive of the three and the other two are among the least aggressive of the damselfish (in my opinion, with the blue sapphire damselfish being the least, beutiful by the way).

As far as the comments on the anemone and mandarin are the same as the above. Copepods being the madarin's main nutrition, they should be plenty of them for a succesful keep of the dragonet. Gool luck with it and hope it makes it, they are beutiful.

nemo addict

Hi mixing damsels in a smaller tank can bring out aggression, the clowns being damsels will normall rule the tank , i have 4 different types of damsels in my tank and there always chasing eachother away from there section of the tank, but they are in a 125 uk gal tank,

SWfreshmen31

yea the clowns are the main guys(and girl) in the tank and they like attention and are really active. they were investigating the new emerald crab in there and it was really funny. im actually gonna stay with the current fish i have.