Clownfish pushing against glass

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My clownfish keeps swimming its face/mouth against the glass as if it's pushing on it to try to swim through. Is it irritated on its face or just normal clownfish behavior? I also just saw it try to rub it's face/mouth area against the rock too. It recently developed a bunch of dark spots on it but I thought it looked like clownfish hypermelinization.
 

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My clownfish keeps swimming its face/mouth against the glass as if it's pushing on it to try to swim through. Is it irritated on its face or just normal clownfish behavior? I also just saw it try to rub it's face/mouth area against the rock too. It recently developed a bunch of dark spots on it but I thought it looked like clownfish hypermelinization.
Not abnormal for a clown and may be playing with its reflection trying to show aggression towards the imaginary clown in its reflection
 

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My clownfish keeps swimming its face/mouth against the glass as if it's pushing on it to try to swim through. Is it irritated on its face or just normal clownfish behavior? I also just saw it try to rub it's face/mouth area against the rock too. It recently developed a bunch of dark spots on it but I thought it looked like clownfish hypermelinization.
Looks like it is just battling it reflection. You might be able to tape a piece of dark paper on the outside to cut the reflection.

The larger one is pushing the glass slider around a little, keep an eye on that so it doesn’t get worse.

Jay
 

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