Trying to keep clowns

[spinergy74]

Please help! For over a year now I have repetedly tried to keep a clown fish, with no luck. I have a 12 gallon that has been running healthy for a year now and only has one other fish, a Green Cromis. Even in my old 25g tank I had trouble with these fish. I always thought them to be prety hardy fish. At least so I was told. I have always purchased in the past aquacultured Ocellaris Clowns. I feed them once a day (and sometimes every other day), a mix of flake food and frozen brime shrimp with Zoe vitamin. I dont want to give up a these fish, I love these guys too much! Please Help

[imafishboy]

how many have you killed? ...just curious.

[spinergy74]

Three so far! You see why I need to know what Im doing wrong before I kill again!

[yoyoyo]

try keeping the light on over night, maybe not the one in the tank but one in the room, just so the tank is not dark. I had the same problem. My clown would be fine but overnight they kept dying. I had four die in a matter of 3 months. My clown was sitting on the bottom of the tank and i turned the lights on and it started swimming around again and made it.