Is this normal for clownfish?

[FlickaSA]

We’ve just finished cycling our first reef tank and got 2 juvenile clowns in it. They’ve been in there for about a week now. It’s a large tank with a large rock double arch in it. The first few days they swam around all over but have started hanging out together near the back column and often swim head down.

Is this normal?

They’re still eating. Ammonia etc all at good levels. Some algae bloom, but it’s not crazy.

 

[Waters]

We’ve just finished cycling our first reef tank and got 2 juvenile clowns in it. They’ve been in there for about a week now. It’s a large tank with a large rock double arch in it. The first few days they swam around all over but have started hanging out together near the back column and often swim head down.

Is this normal?

They’re still eating. Ammonia etc all at good levels. Some algae bloom, but it’s not crazy.

Yeah, totally normal for clowns. They are claiming their spot

 

[redseanewbie]

We’ve just finished cycling our first reef tank and got 2 juvenile clowns in it. They’ve been in there for about a week now. It’s a large tank with a large rock double arch in it. The first few days they swam around all over but have started hanging out together near the back column and often swim head down.

Is this normal?

They’re still eating. Ammonia etc all at good levels. Some algae bloom, but it’s not crazy.

ya don't worry man I started my reef tank up like 4 months ago and went through the same thing. They do a lot of questionable things that make you think they are sick/dying but they are just odd fish.

 

[Mark Goode]

They often pick a spot behind a big rock on the opposite side of the tank from your anemone. Making a little nest in your hair algae or something.

 

[BryanM]

Mine (bonded pair) sleep back left of tank, one at the bottom and one at the top. It seems very strange ... been that way for months.

 

[DexterKarin]

Between my friends and i we have 3 clown pairs. One lazes around on the sand in one place, literally lying there. Another hugs a corner of a tank and lives there in the vertical. Mine are active and obsessed with their three toadstools although my male has also decided to molest a chalice. Normal? Not normal? They are clowns.

 

[Jekyl]

They're trying to trick you into putting your hand in there so they can bite it is my thought on the matter.

 

[JayM]

There’s almost nothing that’s not normal for a clownfish.

 

[BryanM]

They're trying to trick you into putting your hand in there so they can bite it is my thought on the matter.

Ha! Mine are mellow and carefree, but I read these accounts, and when they come close to my hand in the tank I worry!

 

[KrAt0s]

We’ve just finished cycling our first reef tank and got 2 juvenile clowns in it. They’ve been in there for about a week now. It’s a large tank with a large rock double arch in it. The first few days they swam around all over but have started hanging out together near the back column and often swim head down.

Is this normal?

They’re still eating. Ammonia etc all at good levels. Some algae bloom, but it’s not crazy.

Mine do the same thing, totally normal. Sometimes together side by side, top and bottom and sometimes opposite corners.

 

[edsbeaker]

The name “clownfish” was no accident! Mine used to sit on the bottom of the tank being hosted by a yellow watchman goby. I wish I had saved the photo.

 

[FlickaSA]

I’ve kinda got used to their weirdness now. They seem to sleep on opposite corners of the tank then chill by the pump column during the day.

My son asked why they weren’t together, so I told him the one called the other fat and they were having a tiff

 

[winxp_man]

There’s almost nothing that’s not normal for a clownfish.

Facts! Very little. If they don’t move much then you know there are problems. Haha.

 

[KrAt0s]

Exhibit A excuse the quality, hard to get images when lights are out. Will be here all night. Other one is on the opposite side and lower corner… they switch it up sometimes..

 

[Mark Goode]

I've seen it. Provided they feed, don't breathe fast and look healthy when they are swimming the right way up I wouldn't worry. They rarely do what you want them to, especially when they're new to a tank. IMHO, anyway.

 

[winxp_man]

I've seen it. Provided they feed, don't breathe fast and look healthy when they are swimming the right way up I wouldn't worry. They rarely do what you want them to, especially when they're new to a tank. IMHO, anyway.

My new tank I put in my 4 Ocy clowns, and a maroon. They are all getting along for now. But maroon is temp I think. It’s my brothers. My Maroon I put her in to, and it was nuts. Instant murder is what she wrote! Haha! So put her back in the cage until I set up my 25gal lagoon.

 

[NanoReefUK]

They often pick a spot behind a big rock on the opposite side of the tank from your anemone. Making a little nest in your hair algae or something.

This is so true, I have a lovely RBTA and the clowns are always at the side with the strongest flow away from my Nem! Why, I will never know.