Female Maroon Taking Over

[CodyRVA]

My tank is about 10 months old. These pair of lightning maroon clowns were paired when I bought them and have been in the tank together for 8+ months. The male has, for months, been hanging out near the edge of the rock work, away from the female. At night they saddle up side by side, no issues. Suddenly tonight the female went ballistic and has been attacking the male hard. He’s pale, fins and tale tore up, laying on the bottom. He’s also been struggling with an eye wound, which I’m gonna assume at this point was from the female. Should I pull the female and leave the male? Leave the female? I’m ironically heading out of town tomorrow, don’t wanna leave these dividers in for a whole week unless that’s the best strategy.

Worth noting, I was able to get them to chill for about an hour. They were rubbing against each other, figuring it out, make twitching… then the female went rogue again; that’s when I put the walls up.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

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[Seansea]

My female tomato clown did this about every 4 months to my male. Almost removed him a couple times but left him and he survived every time. And would just go back to hanging out with her. I did remove the female. She would try to kill any new additions in my 180. Not harrass but to the death no survival beatings. While clown pairs sound good on paper i find the females eventually become pshychos. My male tomato has been in the tank a few months and is harmless. I would say he gets picked on more tha anything

 

[CodyRVA]

My female tomato clown did this about every 4 months to my male. Almost removed him a couple times but left him and he survived every time. And would just go back to hanging out with her. I did remove the female. She would try to kill any new additions in my 180. Not harrass but to the death no survival beatings. While clown pairs sound good on paper i find the females eventually become pshychos. My male tomato has been in the tank a few months and is harmless. I would say he gets picked on more tha anything

Thanks for the info. I still have the female in my display, but she’s in a breeder box. Holding her there for 3ish weeks, will let her loose and see what she does. I don’t have a high degree of hope lol.

 

[Seansea]

Lol good luck. Kepp us posted

 

[OrchidMiss]

My female maroon has killed every fish that tried to reside with her. I have only been able to keep a pair of mated pistol shrimp in the 20g with her.

 

[Seansea]

My female maroon has killed every fish that tried to reside with her. I have only been able to keep a pair of mated pistol shrimp in the 20g with her.

Maroon in a 20g? Bold choice. But that is a beautiful fish

 

[CodyRVA]

My female maroon has killed every fish that tried to reside with her. I have only been able to keep a pair of mated pistol shrimp in the 20g with her.

I’ve got a royal gramma, fire shrimp (actually doesn’t take any **** from her, she’s tried) and a tail spot blenny. She really only hammers the male clown.

 

[Seansea]

I doubt she would take it all the way on him. Mine would just throw him a beating brutally every now and them to check him. Then leave him be for a couple months. How are the interacting today?