Depressed female Percula Clown!

[Mppp]

I had bought a pair of tiny captive bred clowns years ago and let nature take its course. Long story short they bred many times (never reared eggs) and one day my male was just laying on his side no signs of disease I wonder if just exhausted from constant breeding or whatever and now I have a lonely female who eats, but is there any way to ensure I buy a male clownfish? Or will she possibly kill him right away even if I do introduce any single male if I'm lucky to find one? I have a mixed reef 81 gallon cube other fish include a royal gramma basslet, captive bred yellow tang, captive bred coral beauty, goby and pistol shrimp currently. I've also thought about buying a group of clowns as well (perhaps 5) to change look of tank, but unsure if this is a good idea either as current dynamic is about as perfect as one could hope for in a tank.

 

[blaxsun]

If you get a smaller clownfish there's a better than even chance it will be a male (and remain as such). Whether or not they'll get along... Try to get another percula, though. I know of a handful of people who've kept large colonies of clownfish together in <100 gallon tanks (I'm not one of them). So while it can be done, sometimes the dominant female will kill the others off.