Tips on pairing maroon clowns

[Ken LeMay]

I'm in the process of trying to pair my standard maroon with a new, smaller blue lightning.....got the lightning with a rock and two nems.....so far this is where I'm at....as soon as I remove the middle net, bamn, my standard maroon goes to town on the new comer.....ugg....

 

[JenniferMcK]

I'm trying to get my 2 to get along as well. I kind of rescued them and they were fine until I started treating them with meds and they started feeling better. Now the female confined the male to one spot and he was afraid to move and she wasn't letting him eat. This is their current situation. I'm hoping for a better outcome bc i have no idea what to do with them if they don't make peace

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I'm trying to get my 2 to get along as well. I kind of rescued them and they were fine until I started treating them with meds and they started feeling better. Now the female confined the male to one spot and he was afraid to move and she wasn't letting him eat. This is their current situation. I'm hoping for a better outcome bc i have no idea what to do with them if they don't make peace

It could be just your picture but they look around the same size. If so they are probably trying to figure out who is going to be the female. Mouthing and shaking are normal when trying to pair up. As long as your not seeing them ripping pieces off each other.

 

[JenniferMcK]

It could be just your picture but they look around the same size. If so they are probably trying to figure out who is going to be the female. Mouthing and shaking are normal when trying to pair up. As long as your not seeing them ripping pieces off each other.

The female is about 2.5-3 inches the male is maybe an inch or a bit longer. The picture isn't all that great. She was ramming him and he was basically staying on the bottom of the tank and only moved to get food and then she'd ram him again. His fins are a little tattered so that's why I put him in the box. They're both in copper and spectrogram so I'm hoping that'll help with his fins. This is them before she started being mean to him.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

What has worked for me in the past is putting both in a specimen cup so I could intervene if necessary. As long as the female wasn't actually causing damage I just let them be. Mouthing, shaking, etc, is fine.

 

[JenniferMcK]

What has worked for me in the past is putting both in a specimen cup so I could intervene if necessary. As long as the female wasn't actually causing damage I just let them be. Mouthing, shaking, etc, is fine.

I'll try that in a few days. So far she keeps swimming up to him and he's swimming alot better and eating better. She's curious about him and it looks like he's trying to get to her. So I'll let their curiosity wonder a bit longer and them see what happens. Thank you for the advice!

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I'll try that in a few days. So far she keeps swimming up to him and he's swimming alot better and eating better. She's curious about him and it looks like he's trying to get to her. So I'll let their curiosity wonder a bit longer and them see what happens. Thank you for the advice!

Good luck! That us know how it ends up. You're welcome

 

[JenniferMcK]

Good luck! That us know how it ends up. You're welcome

Well he got out while I was cleaning up the bottom of the tank and they danced around for a while and she hasn't been as aggressive but he is hiding between the glass and my ammonia tag. She'll swim over to him and they dance around a bit and then she'll leave. I don't know if that's good or not but he's staying in that one spot, and she's wimming all over the tank.

 

[davocean]

Well he got out while I was cleaning up the bottom of the tank and they danced around for a while and she hasn't been as aggressive but he is hiding between the glass and my ammonia tag. She'll swim over to him and they dance around a bit and then she'll leave. I don't know if that's good or not but he's staying in that one spot, and she's wimming all over the tank.

It's pretty typical and actually a good sign.

If a female refuses a male, she can lash out and kill it before you can even grab a net, it's an obvious aggressive act.

 

[JenniferMcK]

It's pretty typical and actually a good sign.

If a female refuses a male, she can lash out and kill it before you can even grab a net, it's an obvious aggressive act.

Oh good. I was actually trying to figure out what I was going to do with one or the other if they couldn't make it. They've been in my tank for at least 2 weeks and the aggression just started happening the week which worried me. But she seems to not be in such a bad mood now. So fingers crossed.

 

[JenniferMcK]

It's pretty typical and actually a good sign.

If a female refuses a male, she can lash out and kill it before you can even grab a net, it's an obvious aggressive act.

Well here they are this morning swimming to gather. She has been chasing herself in the reflection on the side of the tank. I thought about putting a mirror up but she seems to see herself without one so I'm just going to go with it. She goes to him now and they swim around and do their shimmy shake dance but no aggression like a few days ago. I think she missed him. I even found them sleeping together this morning. And yes that's a big long string of poop that I think may be a worm. They're both on gc soaked food, copper and spectrogram in qt.