So mad at clowns

[Perthegallon]

How do I get my clown fish from attacking my corals I have added three nems and no help I’m getting so mad at these clowns

 

[jda]

Remember that they are just damsels with a cuter outfit.

There is not much that you can do except remove them.

 

[TriggerFinger]

Try and section the clowns away from the coral and by the anemones if you can. They may not ever take to the nem, it’s a gamble. Mine prefers frilly mushrooms

 

[Perthegallon]

how do I get capture them

 

[Waynerock]

I am hoping someone comes out with a small harpoon gun. Seriously I have watched helplessly as my two black clowns have killed 2 giant Goni’s. Fish are just in my tank to eat algae and poop. Killing corals is my job. I wish I could get them out but my rock work is not coming out I risk killing lost of money of SPS

 

[ahiggins]

Hahahaha I’m only laughing because I’ve been there.
I hate clowns, mean psychotic little balls of meat.

 

[jda]

Bottle trap with a larger mouth bottle. Netting in the early AM when they are fast asleep. Regular fish trap.

I have had good luck trapping fish after they get really hungry after a week of no other food.

Off topic, but remember when people were wooing over the Lighting Maroon Clowns? I told some friends that I would not pay $1 for one of those, let alone the $1000 that they wanted when newly bred, since one day you will just end up with a maroon clown that you will want to kill.

 

[Perthegallon]

I aboustly hate these fish they are lucky I can’t catch them

 

[jda]

Like try a 1 liter soda bottle with the larger mouth... or a sports drink bottle.

 

[Perthegallon]

Like try a 1 liter soda bottle with the larger mouth... or a sports drink bottle.

Will do I’m going to try first getting them when they sleep

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

+1 on the bottle trap

 

[sfin52]

Late at night go down hit the with a bright light a scoup the out with a net.

 

[Bill_Moorman]

I would wait a few hours once your lights are off, and use a net to get them out. My clowns “sleep” near the overflow, so I would assume yours sleep somewhere too!

If all else fails, you could rig up a fishing hook and go the old fashioned way! (Just kidding I don’t think that would work hahah)

 

[LesPoissons]

Oh man that’s a bummer. Maybe you need fewer clowns? How many/what kind? How big is your tank? I have 7, 3 skunks, 3 ocellaris, and a maroon in a 220 and they never touched a coral except to try to host in a large torch that didn’t mind? (Knock on wood).

 

[Backreefing]

If all else fails , just simply drain all the water into large containers . Then reach in and pick him up off the gravel.

 

[Perthegallon]

Oh man that’s a bummer. Maybe you need fewer clowns? How many/what kind? How big is your tank? I have 7, 3 skunks, 3 ocellaris, and a maroon in a 220 and they never touched a coral except to try to host in a large torch that didn’t mind? (Knock on wood).

Two black snowflakes under 6 months old in a 40 gallon tank