Clown Fish behavior question

[ramfifty]

Hello all!!

I've got a 15 gal nano tank and just last week did a major aquascape change. Added 10 lbs. of rock and changed the layout of the tank. My clowns (bonded pair) have been.... how do i say this.... ******s. they bite more than a chihuahua and apparently really don't like the new tank changes. I'm trying to get my GSP to grow on the back wall so I positioned an large rock against the back wall and placed the GSP on it near the top. However I kept finding it on the bottom of the tank and didn't understand why, until I watched my male clown pick it up and drop it on the bottom of the tank. He did this multiple times. The female has now started to try and host my zoas (the zoas are not happy about it) that she had never paid any attention to before. So long as the GSP is in the lower part of the tank no one messes with it, but that doesn't work with what i want to do.

did the aquascape change trigger something? is it just normal clown behavior?

Tank is little over 2.5 months old (started 10/28/24) . clowns were added first (11/11/24), then GSP (11/19/24) , and then zoas (added 12/2/24)

 

[Tahoe61]

Perfectly normal. Clowns are assertive. I had one female that I had to remove every time I worked in the tank. If I placed a frag somewhere she didn't approve of she would just through the frag to the sandbed.