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Ok well I woke up this morning to see my Phantom Clown died overnight. This makes me sick. I'm curious if anyone might know why or have had the same issue.

I purchased the clown at Reef Currents and acclimated that night. Everything has him great since and the Phantom jumped right into hanging around my Picasso and Black & White with no issues. There have been no issues up to last night. They all got along fine. Well last night I noticed the Phantom swimming vertical a little bit. Then later I noticed that the black and white was chasing him a little, which was odd because he hasn't done that to any other fish and still isn't. So I netted the black and white. Well this morning I checked first thing and yep, Phantom is dead. So I'm curious if anyone has any idea what could have happened. Everything else is doing just fine, corals and fish. Ugh this makes me sick. I have wanted one of these clowns for awhile and was really happy to bring one home last month. Well looks like I am done with buying anymore designer clowns even though that was what I loved....
 
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Sorry for your lost. When the clown try to pair up. They will start fighting to decide who is the male and who is the female. Its may get hurt from it. Anyway. Do not give up buying the design clown. Swing by I will help you bring back your love one. HAHA
 
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Thanks :) I will have to swing by this weekend Dennis, just hate losing it... I figured they would have gone through all of that the first few days. Guess my Picasso is already paired up then because they have been together for months with no issues. But the Picasso is smaller so maybe it happened with less of a fight haha. Ugh I love clowns too but I hate losing em...
 
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I have tried keeping multiple clowns before even in my 8 foot tank and it didn't work. I had two pairs and set up their host corals (one had frogspawn and other had a brain coral) on opposite sides of the tank. The female clown would swim all the way over and beat up the other one until it finally was dead one day. I immediately took the other picasso (who was a baby) out and put in another tank. Once they get past the juvenile phase, you really shouldn't keep more than one pair in a tank.
 
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CooP said:
Ok well I woke up this morning to see my Phantom Clown died overnight. This makes me sick. I'm curious if anyone might know why or have had the same issue.

I purchased the clown at Reef Currents and acclimated that night. Everything has him great since and the Phantom jumped right into hanging around my Picasso and Black & White with no issues. There have been no issues up to last night. They all got along fine. Well last night I noticed the Phantom swimming vertical a little bit. Then later I noticed that the black and white was chasing him a little, which was odd because he hasn't done that to any other fish and still isn't. So I netted the black and white. Well this morning I checked first thing and yep, Phantom is dead. So I'm curious if anyone has any idea what could have happened. Everything else is doing just fine, corals and fish. Ugh this makes me sick. I have wanted one of these clowns for awhile and was really happy to bring one home last month. Well looks like I am done with buying anymore designer clowns even though that was what I loved....
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They attack each other gills to try and kill them.
 
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Let me say this and it should be a rule.
do not under any circumstances try to keep more than 2 clowns in your tank, eventually they will be some serious fighting.
what you see in the LFS will never happen in your home.
good example, there is a video on Youtube with a female reefer who had nothing but anemone's and clowns in her tank, everyone was amazed at this.
months later another video was shown, only they were less clowns in the video, guess what happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFO4DwEkkr0

I have tried the same with some gobies, saw them in the store together in the same tank, took them home and it was like WWIII.
Basically, once you have an established pair in the tank (clowns) any new additions will not be greeted kindly.
 
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Thanks all. Yea looks like I'm going to wait until I get my other tank setup and then get the phantoms in that one. The Picasso and black/white seem to be doing great together so I won't interfere with that. Who knows, maybe one day I'll have some awesome fry haha. Thanks again!

Dennis, can't make it this weekend. Truck is breaking down so to the dealer I go.... Prolly will end up driving a new truck out haha
 
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