Clownfish

[ponkbunny]

I am getting a 180L 3 ft bowfront tank. can i put 2 black and white clowns and 2 orange and white clowns in together?
some people are saying they fight and others saying they wont.
Also do they need an anemone?
once again im getting conflicting info, people claiming that the fish will die without anemones. i doubt this is true is it?

also do bow fronted aquariums make the fish appear distorted at all?

 

[andywg]

It would depend on the species of clown, but with the smaller ones I should think you could make 4 work in such a tank, though others may know better.

Clowns most certainly don't need nems and there is every chance that the clowns may ignore any nem you put in there.

Bow fronted tanks will distort the view a bit as you are looking through a curved lens.

 

[AK77]

I am getting a 180L 3 ft bowfront tank. can i put 2 black and white clowns and 2 orange and white clowns in together?
some people are saying they fight and others saying they wont.
Also do they need an anemone?
once again im getting conflicting info, people claiming that the fish will die without anemones. i doubt this is true is it?

also do bow fronted aquariums make the fish appear distorted at all?

I've got 2 black & white and 2 false percula clowns (nemos). If all 4 are in the 180, they fight. The two B/W clowns actively seek out and beat the crap out of the small false perc male. I'm going to be getting some more corals soon and if the B/W clowns host a coral at one end of the tank, I might try reintroducing the other false perc if I can get them to host something else at the other end (at the moment he lives in the sump), but I'm not holding my breath.

You might have more joy with pink skunk clownfish as I've seen about 5 of them living peacefully at the LFS in a display tank.