I have a 125 gallon tank with 2 clown fish already and 1 hippo tank. At the moment I have moved them into my 90 gallon tank to do some work on my 125. My wife wants me to get a few more of each but I am wondeing will this cause any problems?? If I get them I will buy the same size hippo and a little bit smaller clown fish than the male one and add them at the same time. I was thinking of having 4 hippo's in total and maybe 6 clown fish in total but not sure about causing any stress to any of them. I know at fish stores you see them all the time but they are added all together at once with no real area and mine I have had for over 3 years and the hippo for 2 years. Anyone with a good answer please or has tried doing this before. Thank you
How many clownfish and hippo tang can I add??
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Most likely, more of either is not such a good idea. Multiple clowns can be done, but they would need to be from the same spawn. The problem with the regals though, is they will eventually grow into quite large fish (something around the size of a dinner plate). It could be done with several small ones, I've seen it done, but the place also had multiple several thousand gallon coral vats the fish could go in (one of which had/has a full grown regal).
There is plenty of other fish you could add(lots), I'm going to suggest possibly a different species of a smaller tang (eg, yellow) or a foxface (love mine - great fish similar to tangs but more disease resistant, apparently there delicous too),a drawf angel (maybe multiple drawfs of different species) as a couple of larger fishes. A shoal of fishes such as chromis, chalk bass, anthias (look into these first, a little harder to keep) would create the effect you seem to want from the clowns + regals.
Excellent advice dorkfish.
Just to add a little on why more clowns wouldn't be a good idea, is when you have a bunch of clowns together they will always find the weakest one and bully it, usually to death, then the cycle repeats on the next weakest one until there is usually just a mated pair and a couple outcasts left that were strong enough to hold their own. It isn't a problem with the size of tank you have. The only way adding more clowns may work out is if you add completely different types of clowns than you have now, ie. if you have standard ocellaris clowns then adding a few skunk clowns would probably work out much better than adding more "nemo's". Just stay away from Maroon clowns, meanest ones of the bunch.
Just to add a little on why more clowns wouldn't be a good idea, is when you have a bunch of clowns together they will always find the weakest one and bully it, usually to death, then the cycle repeats on the next weakest one until there is usually just a mated pair and a couple outcasts left that were strong enough to hold their own. It isn't a problem with the size of tank you have. The only way adding more clowns may work out is if you add completely different types of clowns than you have now, ie. if you have standard ocellaris clowns then adding a few skunk clowns would probably work out much better than adding more "nemo's". Just stay away from Maroon clowns, meanest ones of the bunch.