Major Tank Bullying

[_cpate3_]

I finally got a taste of the clownfish terrors. I added a flasher wrasse to the tank to find it today bruised on its side and breathing extremely heavily. I have since relocated it to my seahorse tank (currently no seahorses so it’s the only one in there). I hope it can calm down and recover in there. Then my mandarin has a piece of its pelvic fin missing which it was completely white yesterday which I thought was just the mucus coating, but now it looks like a bite was taken out. Is there anything I can do for these poor guys to help them heal?

My plan is to set back up my Fluval 13.5 and relocate the clowns to their own tank, move the mandarin in with the seahorses, and then the flasher wrasse can go back in the DT with the dottyback and Midas blenny and hopefully peace will be restored.

Here’s the wrasse after I relocated him:

And here’s the mandarins fin:

 

[Lavey29]

What species of clown? How bug is your DT? Perhaps they are spawning which leads to higher aggression.

 

[Badblackdog]

I started with two maroon clown fish and I had no idea how aggressive and hostile they can be. The large female would not let me puts frags on my rock scape. Every time I tried to place a frag, she would head butt it and knock it off. She also kept the male in check and all the other fish hid in the rocks. I had to pull them out and bring them back to the my LFS. Clowns are jerks, never again.

 

[Lavey29]

I started with two maroon clown fish and I had no idea how aggressive and hostile they can be. The large female would not let me puts frags on my rock scape. Every time I tried to place a frag, she would head butt it and knock it off. She also kept the male in check and all the other fish hid in the rocks. I had to pull them out and bring them back to the my LFS. Clowns are jerks, never again.

Well certain species such as Marion's are very aggressive and hard to manage with other fish in a DT. The LFS should have told you this too.

 

[_cpate3_]

What species of clown? How bug is your DT? Perhaps they are spawning which leads to higher aggression.

Captive bred ocellaris got as babies, have been with the same fish for about a year now, attacked and killed my cleaner shrimp one day, and now the new addition, and possibly my mandarin. It’s a 30gallon long so 3ft. I have seen the male cleaning rocks and I got them an anemone but they have not spawned yet

 

[_cpate3_]

I started with two maroon clown fish and I had no idea how aggressive and hostile they can be. The large female would not let me puts frags on my rock scape. Every time I tried to place a frag, she would head butt it and knock it off. She also kept the male in check and all the other fish hid in the rocks. I had to pull them out and bring them back to the my LFS. Clowns are jerks, never again.

Mine were model citizens for so long, then about a month ago snapped

 

[slythy]

Mine were model citizens for so long, then about a month ago snapped

They might be starting to spawn, also with only 30gal theres not a ton of room to hide.

 

[_cpate3_]

They might be starting to spawn, also with only 30gal theres not a ton of room to hide.

I’ve definitely seen the spawning behavior. I’m not trying to combat them but I’m more so looking for a way to help heal the other fish