Crazy Clownfish

saltnewb · Mar 5, 2017

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 · Mar 5, 2017

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

Roy 9121 · Mar 5, 2017

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

jason_mazzy · Mar 5, 2017

wear gloves. they have no fear.

Cary Meredith · Mar 5, 2017

Yep they bite big time :mad:

Liquid360 · Mar 5, 2017

Maroon?

Roy 9121 · Mar 5, 2017

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

Sandroni · Mar 5, 2017

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

ahiggins · Mar 5, 2017

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 · Mar 5, 2017

Liquid360 said:
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 · Mar 5, 2017

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...