All About Clownfish - Care, History, Breeding and more in your reef tank
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- Clownfish like the Percula and Ocellaris are great first fish for your reef tank. They're colorful, they'll be out and swimming around most of the time, and they're easy to take care of. Clownfish make great additions to older tanks as well, and don't require anemones to do well. Breeding clownfish is also relatively easy compared to other reef fish and they make a great first fish for saltwater aquarium breeders as well.
Clownfish care is almost as easy as it can get, even for beginners. This video gives a nice how to for you to follow - and I'd recommend a good quality dry pellet fish food like those made by New Life Spectrum or something similar. Your clownfish will also enjoy frozen foods, but avoid brine shrimp as they're not super nutritious though they make a nice snack for your anemonefish.
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These are the scientific fish videos we all need! Thank you
I'm glad you enjoyed it! They a lot of fun to research and produce
ReefMan the top brass like co-op and BRS could learn a lot from you. I for one want to know the things you pointed out.
I’ve only been in the saltwater side of the aquarium hobby since 2013, however over that time I’ve noticed that clownfish can tell you a lot about your water quality. If their ventral fins are always tucked, something might be off in the tank (usually associated with above average nitrates)
This is similar to how I monitor my water quality. I watch the health of my corals. tells me more than any test
Clownfish are some of my favorite fish. Nice video!
I'm new to this salt water setup. Thanks for this Informative video.
Good luck! Feel free to reply with questions if you have any.
Great information. Thanks for sharing 😁👍🏼
I’m looking into getting into saltwater fish for the first time and extremely interested in clownfish. Do they need to be kept in pairs?
No, but it is fun to see their interaction and they do pair up pretty easily.
I would recommend that they are in pairs as its just interesting to see
I agree. It's very interesting seeing the interaction!
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Yes mine lay eggs every other week, the eggs get larger then they all disappear in a few days. Not sure if they eat them or another fish does
Clownfish are found in the Pacific, Indian Ocean and the Red Sea (Amphiprion bicinctus) being commonly named 'Red Sea Clownfish'.
Ty so much this was so informative!! Well done!!
Any special recommendations for my pair of gold lightning maroon clown fish. I have done a ton a research up to this point but always ready for more tips!
The only thing that comes to mind is that Maroon clowns can be aggressive, but I'm sure you've read that already! Good luck! Those are really beautiful fish!
@@ReefMan they have the whole tank to themselves beside a few hermit crabs, and a snail 🐌 🐚
Hello! I was wondering about getting two clownfish but I’m a bit scared that they might breed which I really don’t need them to do lol. Should I just keep one? Will it affect its health? Also do they really need anemone because I researched and captive clownfish don’t require it. Thanks
Unless you do some work to raise the baby fish you won't need to worry about them breeding. They also don't require an anemone though it's sort of fun to watch them in one.
ReefMan thanks. I gotta know, since it is advised to go beneficial bacteria for the tank. If I get a turbo bacteria and let it grow for a week is that the only time I’ll ever have to use it or do I put a little more each time I do a water change? Also, do I need a UVB light or a standard light ?
If you successfully raise the young clownfish, is it okay to put the babies back in the tank with the parents?
Yes, they might eat the very young ones but as they grow older it should be fine. Your tank will quickly get crowded - a local fish store might buy them from you
I love this show.
Been doing alot of research,I really want to get some clowns,and a bubble tip. I have a 60 gal tank.currently fresh water.looking to convert,my questions is what light should I be looking for?I have had a saltwater tank before with clowns but I didn't do the setup.i just took over the tank once it was setup
Your clownfish won't care what light you use - but it will be critical for the health of your bubble tip. You will need typical reef lighting - T5, Metal Halide, or LED (maybe use a smaller tank and get e Kessil?). If you primarily want the clownfish you might also have luck with a fake anemone and then you won't need to worry so much about the lighting. The clowns won't mind!
@@ReefMan any lights that you would recommend for my 60 gal tank? it's a 48 inch long tank
@@miggywiggy11 If you're planning on a full reef I'd recommend the Ecotech Radions or the AI Hydras. If you just need a spotlight, or want to fill in gaps, then the Kessil pendants work great. These would allow you to grow other corals along with your bubble tip - or you could make a bubble tip specific tank, but 60 gallons is overkill for that to be honest. Some bubble tips and a couple clowns would be really cool in a tank like one of the Nuvo line. Bubble tips stay pretty small overall, but they do need strong light and some food from time to time.
Are they good first time salt water fish? Great video btw 👌🏻😊
Yes, in fact they'd be great! They're very hardy and will take to most commercial foods. They'd be a great first fish.
I'd like to keep fairly easy stuff, like Xenia, Nepthea, mushrooms, polyps, zoanthids eventually, etc... Fish tha have my interest are a pair of Ocellaris clownfish, Coral Beauty angelfish, Royal Gramma, Chalk Bass, purple dottyback, and firefish goby ... which of these would make a good community in a tank? I have a fee tank possibilities, a 40 breeder, a 50g that is the 40B footprint just taller, and a 90 that is empty but was destined to be an African Cichlid tank, that COULD change and the cichlids could inhabit a smaler one, but I was thinking 40 or 50 would be big enough for 4 or 5 SW fish, while still affordable to set up, maintain, etc...
Do they jump? Can I keep them in open top rimless tanks?
Any fish can jump, but I've never had a clownfish jump. I don't have a cover on my tank.
Hey sir! Um would a 35 gallon need a protein skimmer. It's already cycled and do i need to cycle the tank again?
I bet you could get away without one. As you add more and more to the tank you might consider one though.
I have a 40 gallon without one, and I’m doing just fine. Grant it, it’s only been a few months, but you can definitely get away with it.
If I’ve had one clown in my tank a while is it easy to introduce another later in the hope they’ll pair up?
Yea most likely. They are not super territorial unless they have eggs. Get a second that is much smaller than the existing one as well to increase your chances.
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I'm glad it was useful! Hopefully it helped!
@@ReefMan thank you!! it was
I’m on my third clownfish. All pretty small. I had two in at one time and one swam through the HOB filter. I bought the third and now he is the only one in there. The second one was fine one morning as my wife went to work to when I woke up and walked out to him laying up against the rocks down below in the process of dying. I nudged him and he swam up and sideways then went limp again. Didn’t know what to do. I did the whole nitrogen cycle and water changes of twenty percent on a 55 gallon tank. Salinity was at 1.024 for a good minute. Ammonia and nitrites are lowest possible ph is good. Nitrates are spiking but I bought a HOB refugium and put some chaeto algae in the dented compartment and some de-nitrate rocks in the third compartment. Even came with a light I turn on for about 6-8 hours a day. I bought a hippo tang recently and he’s eating fine and he’s a baby. But he has developed Ich but still eating done so far. Notice tiny white specks in his black area the most. But my third clownfish isn’t eating and hiding off in top corners and low corners and low to the sand around the back of the live rock. If u have any ideas I would really appreciate it
I would work on getting rid of ich first. Add some live rock if you don't have any.
Get a small cube like desktop tank with the filter in the back, light in the hood , type of setup sold at all aquarium stores. Go for the 4 or 5 gallon size, and set it up with RO water, no sand, no Liverock, no corals, just the filter running, maybe some plastic plants. This will be your Quarantine tank. Put your new arrival in there, and medicate with Copper based ick medication like Cupramine. Treat for a month. Also, you have to have a small heater in this tank. The higher you can raise the temperature , the faster the Ick parasite hatches from the cysts and swims in the water, which is the only stage you can kill it. I normally keep my tanks at 79, but I raise the Quarantine tank to 83 , especially if you have an ick infected fish, and keep it healthy with water changes, clean filter, and medication. You dont ever want to get your tank with liverock and corals infected with anything, because you cant treat the tank with any medication, as they kill all the bacteria in your liverock and kill your corals. For me, I just have a smaller tank that has liverock and corals in it that I put my fish in after quarantine and leave them in there a few months as if its their permanent home, and eventually they make it to the big tank. The smaller tank is kinda like their summer house before moving back to the big house. Also , research the fish ahead of time to see if they can tolerate the medication you are using. I think I remember that certain fish have kidneys that cant tolerate Copper, I think it was a Butterfly , or maybe Flame Angel, so double check that. Some people use Formalin, which works ,but can be pretty strong for some fish.
How many clown fishes can you keep in a 75 gallons aquarium? Per type? Thanks.
I bet you could keep four pairs happy. I’d avoid the Maroon Clownfish as they get very territorial, but if you stick with Percula or Occilarus I bet they’d find their areas and stick to themselves more or less.
This video is great! I'm wondering if clown fishes are good to have in a first saltwater tank, what do you think?
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Yes, they'd be great! They're very forgiving, and have nice personalities as well.
Hey I was wondering, how do you know if your clownfish a hosting something? (Like a piece of lie rock or smth)
They'll sort of just always be around the thing they're hosting. Maybe a coral, spending time amongst it's branches or tentacles, or in my case the bottom corner of my tank... They're always there.
@@ReefMan Thanks a lot I just set up my tank yesterday and im getting clownfish in about a week or so. :)) This video was really helpful
Do they have backbone?
Yes, they do.
what is their scale type
How I know that it is a mature fish?
I think age is a good indicator. Unless you bought a very small clownfish, if you’ve had it even a few months, I bet it’s mature.
Can we keep 2 clownfish of different types in a tank?will they mate...like say a hybrid and a percula
I don’t think so, maybe with the exception of Percula and Ocellaris clownfish, but I haven’t heard of a hybrid before.
@@ReefMan so we can keep a percula and oscilaris together
Yea, I don't see why you couldn't.
i'm planning on getting a 20g tank long , this is my first time as well will i need a protein skimmer and can i have 2 clown fish in a 20g???
Two clownfish would do great in a 20g. You could also get a clown goby or some other small fish in that tank. You probably won't need a protein skimmer, but look up surface skimmers and maybe consider one of those with a hang on back filter full of live rock rubble.
ReefMan thank you!! this was really helpful
ReefMan sorry for the bother again but is a power head necessary and if it is a filter and power head sufficient?
All you need to worry about is flow. You want to get water moving through the rock, since it's filtering the water. If you have an overrated hang on back filter you could probably get away with just the filter, but a small power head couldn't hurt. Tunze makes some really nice affordable power heads.
ReefMan thank you!
Good video. In high school I had a pair of clownfish that hosted in a yellow carpet anemone. Now I just fight parasites to keep the fish alive. 😒
Sorry to hear that! Captive bred clownfish shouldn't have a lot of parasites - and you can use things like Prazipro to kill a lot of them if they do. Not all fish can tolerate it though, so make sure you do a little research before you medicate anything.
@@ReefMan thank you ...your right....they didn't come from the clowns....it came from a bicolor angel fish I didn't quarantine.
How many clowns can you have together in a 55 gallon tank?
They're somewhat territorial once they pair up so I think I'd limit it to maybe four or so. You're probably better off with two and some other small fish though, unless you really love clownfish.
What you are saying is good tho I don't agree with max of 4 clowns as it will always end in disaster especially in a 55 gallon.
Hi. I'm currently cycling a tank and plan to add clownfish inside once it's done cycling.
Can 4 clownfish be kept together in a 15gallon tank?
They might end up being territorial with each other but probably they’ll be ok.
@@ReefMan Alright. Well thank you for your response 😊
I'll see. Maybe I'll get really small ones, probably if they grow up together the outcome will be different.
Usually that isn’t the case with fish in my experience. As they get to maturity they tend to be more aggressive. Your clownfish will likely pair off, or maybe form a small harem like they would in the wild. It’ll be interesting to watch!
@@ReefMan A small harem in a small tank 😅
So they probably won't be peace in the tank? I just don't want them killing each other 😂
How about 4 clownfish but different breeds? Like 1 pair Red Ocellaris and other pair maybe a Premium Snowflake?
I think you’ll be ok with four of the same. Percula and occelaris are so close in physical appearance that they won’t see each other as non threats. Just give them some live rock with nooks and spaces to get visual breaks and I bet you’ll be fine.
So I bought 2 clowns fish . from the same store same breed. They seen each before . I bought one it's bigger it's a female ? So I waited 5 days or so and gone back to get the other one. To make a pair and it's smaller. It's a male ?. At first they didn't like each other not the next to each other . Not making any problem s. So now where he was laying down at it was hanging out at she like to say there. So I'm where is my clown fish making trubble again . I seen them laying on top of each other I'm just asking are they a pair for life. Because it just have 2 clowns fish I want to breeding. On utube videos if you add a clownfish put a smaller one than what u have. So I understand right if it's a big clown and it's female she's big . The one I just add us slightly smaller.i can tell the difference between the two. So sounds I have a pair?
Can I put an Ocellaris clown in a 30 gallon fresh water?
No, they're saltwater fish. A 30 gallon tank is big enough, but it does need to be a saltwater tank.
@@ReefMan thank you for the reply. I'm almost 25 years old and I kept a 20 freshwater gallon of a few goldfish and female bettas when I was a teenager but just getting back into fish keeping. Doing a saltwater set up with what I have in there is rather intimidating at my level. I started out with a 8.5g and have been running a 30g for about 2.5 months now
@@torrinscichlids don't overthink it. All you really need for clownfish is stable water chemistry, temperature, and salinity. Go to a local store and buy some live rock - even without a light it'll help filter the water and waste from food and the fish. I've been thinking of making a video about setting up a tank for clownfish - maybe I should go ahead and do that?
If I buy one young Clownfish and put him in a tank all by himself, will he stay male?
No
Will automatically become female.
I did not know
How to get the clown fish to hose your anemone
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There isn't really anything you can do. All you can really do is hope. Some clownfish will, others just ignore the anemones.
@@ReefMan i been researching and there are a few tips im gonna try ill let you know if i have success, thanks
i wish they were tropical, I’ve had such a love for clownfish but i already have a 95 gallon tank full of angel fish and other majestic tropics, such a shame
They are tropical fish actually, but you do need a saltwater tank. Sounds like you have a pretty nice angelfish display tank?
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Sugar not protein.... Interesting!
I didn’t now there are 30 speashes of clown fish.
Yep! And if you count all the "mutants" that we've created via captive breeding there's many many more 😀
Aren’t baby fish called fries?
Fry or sometimes larvae, yes.
ReefMan I remembered that from futurama xD
Good news everyone! 😄
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Should write down the names of the fish. I’m not great at Latin names spelling alone spelling 😆
Great video, but baby clownfish are not larvae :)
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A ne mo nee. A Nemo knee. Finding Nemo. Not neno. Anemone. Not anenome..
So... *FUN FACT* Marlin grew bigger, became female and mate with Nemo..
Nemo grew much bigger than Marlin and became female then mate with Marlin..
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I do struggle with the Latin pronunciation. Thanks!
Why did idiots have to release Lionfish into the Atlantic, such a pest it has become.. If they released a clownfish or 2 at least it would have been cool lol