Not sure if that’s a joke or not but WOW. So, don’t do that lol. There’s a thing called head and lateral line erosion. It’s from running activated carbon non stop. Never seen it in person, possible whoever bred this little dude caused it. If it’s acting normal I wouldn’t worry about it.
Thanks for the info. Yeah he seems fine, I just don't want to take any chances. I'm wondering if the other clown in the tank whose a female is causing him to stress out. She chases him around all the time.
They do that until one established clear dominance. In my case unfortunately it was the uglier of my two clowns who became female so I see her a lot more which is disappointing .
I've seen that before it has a name but not a cause/cure that I know of, it has the generalized term of "epithelial thinning". I see it in captive raised clownfish. It is probably related to head and lateral line erosion, but it may not have the same causes. One thing of note, the larger clown is bullying it pretty badly - if it chases the little clown that much while your there filming it, imagine how rough it is after you leave the room. If that doesn't settle down, you may need to separate them.
Thanks so much for the input. I was wondering if this was a normal amount of bullying, or if I should maybe consider getting the white clown out of the tank. I lost another male clownfish inexplicably about a month ago, and I'm thinking it was from her chasing him around constantly. This female may need to go!
Cool, thanks for the info. I'm pretty concerned with the way the female is treating the male. She is constantly chasing him around the tank. Normal pairing behavior, or should I think about taking the female out of the tank?
You got that right!
I guess you can't take the damsel out of the clown...
That's interesting. Yeah she's definitely a wyoming. I think I'm going to take her back to WWC where I got her and swap her out for something a little more docile.
