Clown fishes are fighting

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I have 2 clown fishes... 1 was added approximately 1 year back and another one after 2 months... they became pair soon ( or i thought so). Last week i added one anemone, both of them hosted it and there was no problem... but,for the last few days, they just keep fighting with each other... specially the one i added last is beating the other one... what can be the reason? How to resolve this issue?
 
Lovers quarrel or they are unsure of the order of dominance and fighting to determine which one gets to sleep in the nem?

They will sort it out. When my fish start fighing I feed more, and if that doesn't lower the aggression I put my hand in the tank and move rocks around. This puts the fighting on the back shelf generally.
 
Lovers quarrel or they are unsure of the order of dominance and fighting to determine which one gets to sleep in the nem?

They will sort it out. When my fish start fighing I feed more, and if that doesn't lower the aggression I put my hand in the tank and move rocks around. This puts the fighting on the back shelf generally.
At night both of them stay in the nem... but during day the one i added last... initially it seems 1st one had the dominance but after adding nem the second one
 
How big were they when you added the 2nd?

Usually if they got along that long I'd say the nem just made the female claim her territory, but if the 2nd is the aggressor it's possible it could have been female or in transition maybe
 
It really could just be dominance, the pair I'm bonding right now will fight (female is ruthless) but then they dance and sleep with each other, so might just be clownfish cortship
 
How big were they when you added the 2nd?

Usually if they got along that long I'd say the nem just made the female claim her territory, but if the 2nd is the aggressor it's possible it could have been female or in transition maybe
Around 1 year, they are together
 

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