Crazy Clownfish

[saltnewb]

Doing a water change today and one of my clownfish came to the top of the tank and looked like it was threatening me or something. It started to worry me as if I'd be picking up a fish from the ground. Thankfully no fish escaped, but now it has me wondering if that's normal behavior?

 

[cody2cannon]

Took me 15 minutes the other day to mount my toadstool cause mine kept attacking

 

[Roy 9121]

Mine bites me all the time. She's mean.

 

[jason_mazzy]

wear gloves. they have no fear.

 

[Cary Meredith]

Yep they bite big time :mad:

 

[Liquid360]

Maroon?

 

[Roy 9121]

It doesn't really hurt when they bite, just kind of scares you if youre not expecting it.

 

[Sandroni]

Never had a clown biting issue, except with my female tomato clown oh boy was she cranky!!

 

[ahiggins]

My occ female is a turd. She bites and comes up to the surface when I'm working in it. She's the only clown now and it's gotten worse

 

[saltnewb]

Maroon?

Occ clown. good to know that this isn't out of the norm for her to be like this. the other three, male clown and 2 chromis, hide in the rock work the entire time. Maybe she's amazonian?

 

[4FordFamily]

My experience with aggressive clowns in order of most aggressive to least (I've been bitten by all of them below though)

1) Fire clown
2) Maroon clown
3) Pink Skunk (these three are nearly tied IME)
4) Tomato
5) Ocellaris

I've only been bitten by these but the ocellaris I've had dozens and only one large dominant female tagged me every once in awhile. The first three (especially the skunk and fire) would do everything they could to tag me. The maroons were sneaky...

 

[Roy 9121]

Never had a clown biting issue, except with my female tomato clown oh boy was she cranky!!

Mine attacks anything that come near her nem. Even attacks my magnifloat when i clean the glass.

 

[4FordFamily]

Mine attacks anything that come near her nem. Even attacks my magnifloat when i clean the glass.

Yup they will tag the mag floats haha

 

[Roy 9121]

Yup they will tag the mag floats haha

It's funny, just as i was writing this, a hermit got to close. She went batsh*t crazy on it

 

[tankaholic]

Mine bites me all the time. She's mean.

Mine lets me and her partner know when we get to close to her rock cave.

Poor little guy sleeps under a frag dome on top of her rock cave.

 

[LbulletM]

My female recently started attacking. Might have to do with adding a juvenile.