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Originally Posted by Bob_I
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Originally Posted by Azilla
ya i know mine looks really upset at all times when i look at other members pictures of there pairs they look happy. I wanted 2 clowns from the start but i didnt know at the time that it was better if bought in pairs  i found another clown here in town and put it on hold cuz they have been hard to come by. They wont kill each other will they?? |
I have never seen them kill each other, but it might be better to float the newcomer in one of those transparent breeding traps, and let it out a day or so later.  |
Yes those transparent breeding containers work awesome. You can even apparently pick them up at Wal-Mart for about $10 bucks. Over this past weekend, I had a male (small) maroon clown and when I was in Calgary I picked up for another guy a Maroon clown (BIG- female). I kept this Female maroon in this plastic container in fear that my clown was going to rip him to pieces. As I suspected even thought the female clown was in the plastic container my clown (male) was going crazy dashing at the plastic, smashing into the container like crazy and nipping the (female) from the bottom grill vents. Female was scared. I thought ...O.H No! So I left that big female clown in that container, all the rest of that night and all the next day. Got home late and felt sorry for the BIG (female) maroon clown in this container so I let her out being totally prepared to break up the fight if it got to bad.
Sure enough, this female Maroon clown headed right for my mean (male) small Maroon clown. They got in to a brief fight before the bigger one (Female Maroon) won the battle and stole my guy (Male clown) anemone. She sure told him hey!
They never had another fight after that. So far anyway. But I seen my clown this morning out in the dog house (other side of the tank) Hiding in shame that he lost & peaking over the corals every now and then to see if the Big Female clown perhaps left the anemone yet.
Aww....poor guy.. Hope the new (boss) female lets him back in the anemone soon.
P.s I have them both in a 77gal tank.