cinnamon & ocellaris clownfish...?

[Lizzie]

so im setting up a 75gallon fish-only tank. i have a large cinnamon clownfish right now & am bringing home 2 occellaris clownfish from my internship cite (since the semester's over). if i put those 3 in the same tank (the 75gallon), will they be alright? or will they fight :\?

[davelin315]

Cinammon clowns are aggressive, but not so bad that it couldn't work. The first question, though, is whether you have a large female. If so, I would avoid the combination. If the fish has been on its own, it's probably a female anyway, or on its way, and it will most likely kill the ocellaris clowns, or possibly just the female. Clowns are territorial when it comes to other species, you'll hear success and failure stories, but as a rule of thumb, you should avoid combining them in one tank when one has been there for a long period of time. Also, you should avoid more than a pair as problems can arise.

[Grav]

I would not expect that to work in a tank that size.