clown behavior

Hello, I was finally able to record my dominate clownfish shaking against the sand bed. I’ve had her for two months and the only other fish is an other clown I had for 3 weeks. I’m pretty sure she started this behavior 5 days ago because I was able to notice the sand bed looking different. She...

Hey, new to the hobby here, tanks about 3 months old, I have a pair of clowns, the female has been pretty aggressive with the male, nipping his fins and such so I separated him in a little isolation box so he could relax for a few days, as I do not have a separate tank, but now the spots I...

Hello, my dominate clown has been rubbing its lower body against the sand bed at night and I’ve never seen this before. I’ve had it for two months and the only other fish is another clown I’ve had for 3 weeks. Should I be worried?

So two days ago I found my female clown on the floor and my male in the rear filtration chamber on my tank. It was obviously too late for my female but I put my male back in the display tank and even though he was clearly looking for her all day which breaks my heart he was physically fine. That...

So I've had a pair of clownfish for over a month, last week I decided to change where my gyre was positioned to have some better flow in the tank, one of the clownfish is swimming all over the tank and hanging out with a blue hippo tang, the other one has been swimming on one corner like of its...

Hi, Clown fish in third day of hiding. I've had a valentini puffer in my 30 gallon tank for about two weeks. I ran out of food for two days and my mandarin goby went missing. The first day I had the puffer, it devoured my emerald crabs. Now my typically belligerent clown fish (had for about a...

I observed several discolored patches on one of my clowns with white spots in the center of each patch. The white spots appear raised. It doesn’t look like ich so I am trying to determine what this is. This is my male and he does get roughed up by the female occasionally (the reason for his...

Wondering if anyone wants to share their lesser known goby duos out there? Anyone ever had a clownfish hang out with their watchman goby before? I have kept watchman gobies before with pistol shrimp and have them be buddies with other goby species but this is my first time seeing one of my two...

My clown fish everyday just will go to the top of the corner they like and just bite the water, it sounds like smacking water. Does anyone know why they are doing this. They stop towards later at night and if you approach the rank they will stop.

My clownfish has been swimming vertical (head up) for only today. Last time I had a pair of clowns, one of them died this way. Is there anything I can do? (I checked pH and Ammonia and both of those are fine)

1st photo and video is of our male clown. His color is drastically lighter than usual. His breathing and mouth movement is extremely fast. The 2nd photo and video is our female clown. Her color hasn’t lightened but she’s having the same breathing and mouth movement issue. This started within 4-5...

I’m a bit confused on clownfish sex changes work… I know if you just have a pair the dominant one is female and the other is male, but what about a colony? I was under the impression that any number of clowns had one female, one male, and the rest ungendered, but I am now told that “there will...

Hi, Just got these clowns today. I’m new to having fish, especially marine. They are just swimming around the top. What could this mean? I cycled the tank and the store checked my levels all are okay for the fish. They’ve been in the tank for a few hours now I tried to sprinkle some pallets...

I work at a lfs and today a customer wanted to buy the lone mai tai clown we had and put it with the mai tai he had in his tank already. He said he also had other kinds of clowns in the tank and they got along well. The question is that since our mai tai was alone, it would’ve been female...

I've just got my first pair of clowns and they've been in copper quarantine (Copper Power 2.20-2.4 ppm, measured with Hanna HR Copper Checker) since the 24th of May. I occasionally see the smaller one (darker color, let's call him Steven) twitched like he was having a spasm, and today, I noticed...

OK so long story short around March 9, 2024 I noticed my fish (2 clowns) breathing heavily and I didn't know what was going on. I bought at that time, a cardinal fish from my local fish store and thought maybe it was a disease brought by that new fish. It was weird because my two clown fishes...

Hey all! I posted this on Humblefish, but there were not really any suggestions or ideas so I’m hoping to get some opinions here! I have a pair of captive bred clowns that went through QT (arrive, H202 dip then MB dip), straight into 2.5 copper for 15 days (doing GC, Kana and Metro at...

Not sure about the discoloration around his gill plate. He’s been hanging out in the top corner of my tank all evening like he’s trying to get out of the water.

Have a pair of storm clownfish one black the other orange and the black one is a tad bit on the bigger side. Since day one they have always been by each other’s side showing no ounce of aggression. Just recently I’ve noticed the orange clown with a nipped causal fin. After some observation at...

Hi, hope you all are having a fantastic day! I would say about a month ago, I purchased this white designer Clownfish to go with my mocha black one and for the first 3 weeks they were best best friends, wouldn't leave eachothers side in a good way. Now for say the past 2 weeks or so this is the...

So my female clown (I'm assuming is female cause her size) I've had for 3½ years while the smaller one (assuming male) I've had for maybe 2 years. They've been doing this, and mouthing up sand, and tailing finning (kicking) sand up also. (I know my algae is bad) But is this submission or mating?

My wife recently picked up this beautiful clown. Not sure what kind he is but his pattern is quite unique. He was sold as a “premium” clown from Petco at one of their magnet stores meaning they get all the good stuff. Their tanks are pretty immaculate and they even have saltwater specialists...

Hi guys, I recently finished cycling my 29 gal standard size tank. Introduced 2 clowns on 3/8/24. My frost bite clown immediately started swimming low in the tank and under the rock work at times opening and closing mouth quickly. The next day the clown was swimming around in the water column...

I have a pair of clowns who were acting so strange. I had them for 9 months now and i noticed they were swimming weird, breathing super fast, and they weren’t eating. Long story short I now have them in quarantine and added copper. They’re doing soooo much better. I am so relieved to see them...

Sorry for another clownfish pairing post first off. Here is the story… I have a IM 15 gallon running since October. I added a flurry clownfish from an LFS who was in a very tiny and dirty rack display. I felt bad as it had no room to swim and just looked miserable. He said he thinks it was...