2 pairs of clowns in one tank?

[Waleedwale1]

So I purchased a biocube yesterday and successfully transported it to my house, filled it up, added LR and sand and acclimated the fish I got with it. I was given 2 lemon damsels (have them to LFS), 2 mocha clowns, and a large true percula (I think it might be false not 100 percent sure). Now, I've read that you can't keep 3 clowns and these guys are doing fine. Swimming around happily and no aggression at all. The guy I got them from said that they were never aggressive. Now the true
Percula is very large and I'm probably going to give it to a friend. The mochas are absolutely beautiful and my father really wants to keep them. That's where the problems start. I have a 6 gal
Nano with 2 small false Percs. The plan was to give away the mochas and put the false Percs here. Would it be possible in anyway to successfully have 2 pairs of clownfish in this tank? The mochas already seemed paired up and so do the false Percs. I'm not in a hurry to get this done but I want to be safe.
Also, here's a pic of the true/false perc
Which is it?
http://imgur.com/KYyrZXf
Bottom fish.

 

[yesjenks]

Please clarify, are you asking if you can keep 2 clown fish pairs ( 4 clown fish) in a 6 gallon tank?

 

[Waleedwale1]

Please clarify, are you asking if you can keep 2 clown fish pairs ( 4 clown fish) in a 6 gallon tank?

No, in the 29 gal biocube.

 

[Stackbundles]

no. tank is too small.

 

[yesjenks]

no. tank is too small.

+1

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[Aquadicted]

It all depends on the fish. Anything is possible... Especially considering they're all ocellaris clowns. But do you really want 4 clowns in your tank?

 

[E.intheC]

It all depends on the fish. Anything is possible... Especially considering they're all ocellaris clowns. But do you really want 4 clowns in your tank?

This is essentially incorrect information. Is it possible? Maybe. ...Extremely unlikely is more accurate.

Having a large tank, more than one anemone, lots of liverock, peaceful dither fish, choosing clowns that are more peaceful than others, etc are all factors that might help. However, even in tanks as large as 180 gallons, people have had trouble with multiple pairs.

Something else that needs to be mentioned - clowns act differently when juvenile vrs when they are an actual mated pair. For example, my (2) juvenile occelaris clowns aren't the least bit aggressive in my tank. For now. Once they mature, I wouldn't be surprised if they started attacking everything and everyone in the tank. I certainly won't be adding another pair.

Generally, the recommendation is one pair per tank.

 

[Wolverine57]

No, in the 29 gal biocube.

for this size tank a pair of small clownfish is ok, but too small for 2 pairs.
In addition Mocha clownfish are ocellaris which you can not keep with percula clownfish, they will fight.