If a tank has multiple types of clowns, will there be multiple females?

[GothFishKeeper]

I work at a lfs and today a customer wanted to buy the lone mai tai clown we had and put it with the mai tai he had in his tank already. He said he also had other kinds of clowns in the tank and they got along well. The question is that since our mai tai was alone, it would’ve been female, right? So would the one mai tai in his tank already be female because it’s the only mai tai and therefore he would have a fight to the death? Or would there only be one female in a group of multiple species?

 

[EricR]

Interesting question. Since clowns like Percula and Ocellaris can interbreed, I'd assume there's some that are close enough genetically that it'd end up being single female usually.
...but no idea how far that idea extends across all of the different species that we call "clownfish."

Good question...

 

[ajremington68]

As a LFS employee have you heard of people having okay success with keeping a pack of 5 or 7 clowns in a bigger tank (180) long term better if they are all the same or would it be better if different types? Or be better if added different times and different sizes or same time all same size?