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Just what I've heard, but hear is my opinion on the clowns.... as far as I have understood it (not practical experiance, with a dominant/ teritorial species like that, if they are introduced last in the tank, then they don't have as much of an influence. I.don't know if maybe you have another tank you could aclimate them too for a little bit, then re introduce them to yours or not, but that might work. Another suggestion would be just a hang on, quarantine style box you could put them in for a bit in your display, then, after a bit, release them. I know both involve catchin them, so maybe not the best ideas, but just a thought. Hope it helps. Oh, and if it helps too, my girlfriends clown did just fine in a quarantine box in my tank for about 2 weeks before I released him back into her tank. That's also with me having a pink skunk clown in mine and neither seemed to pay much atention to 1 another. Of course, hers is a bit of a daddys boy and nibbles at my fingers anytime they are near the water. Again, hope this helps or at least gets the wheels moving in the right direction.

thanks for the advice, I will look into doing something, I hate to lose either one of them and would love for the issue to resolve itself, I will look into doing some kind of guaranteeing and re-releasing it is worth a shot, I am also consider adding a few chromis to the tank while they are out hopefully it will make them feel as though there isn't enough room to just reclaim everything. I have an old 12 gallon nano tank that I could probably place the clowns in for a couple weeks to let them kind of forget their territory if that is ok, I don't want to stress them out too much during that period

That bank tank sounds like a sweet idea. The chromis part may not pan out... they're big time pansies. (HA HA!!) I had three in my tank when I got my clown, and that tank is HIS, and he runs them chromis. Lol. It doesn't seem to bother them one bit though, cause that's how they roll. On the other hand, my six line wrasse and the clown could probably share the same piece of food, and not even notice. I know also that the clown in my girlfriends tank runs her blue chromis' around, but doesn't mess with the damsels hardly at all. But, you know, they all have their own personality. Just thought maybe my experiances could at least give you some backround info. Oh! Question.... do they have an anenome that they've adopted? Do you think that would make any difference at all? Hmm! I know my clown will go roll around in my duncan every now and again and it cracks me up! But, they both enjoy it. Ha ha.

well if I do decide on doing any chromis it will not be the blue/green ones you see all the time I would prefer the lightning double bars or the orange line chromis just because I have heard they are little kinder to their own kind then the blue/green. I have a BTA in the tank with them but unfortunately they are already dedicated to a rock of zoos that I have in there and once they start hosting something it's hard to get them to switch to something else despite my best efforts. The zoos may be part of the problem actually because they are scattered throughout the left half of the tank and spread so fast that I had to separate the rock work to keep them away from my sps and lps. anyway I guess sometime soon I will pull out the old nano and try to get it cycling, I do not plan on using any sand or rock in that tank but may throw in a couple pieces just to give the clowns something to hide behind and plan on using water out of a water change from my 75 gallon in there to keep from having to wait for a major cycle