Female clown died

[jorjef]

Originally Posted by MMAX

I assure you very very much that it is a male that is dominating my female. There's always exceptions to rules of nature.

Unno, maybe they play for the same team.... Who knows, could happen...

[Douglas]

It's day three for the new little guest. My male clown is not very curtious, he's pushing the new little clown around. I guess i'd be a little cranky having to change my sex also.

[Coralgurl]

I added a new clarkii clown after my female jumped. My male I would assumed changed and is now the size of a small tang. She had taken up residence in my bta and was quite content. Now the small male has taken over the nem and the female doesn't seem to mind. (it's a small nem). I would def say they are not paired but there's no issues with them.

I did the same with my black and white clowns. One died so I added another a few weeks later. The female wants nothing to do with him and chases him away from her nem. Funny tho, he sneaks in when she's not looking, then gets chased out. The aggression is not as bad as it was and he can hang closer to her, but not for long. This has been going on for 3 months now.

[Douglas]

Sad news: it seams my new clown has not survived the harrasment of the old male. Disappointing.

[Coralgurl]

That sucks!

[daniella3d]

It is best to separate them through eggcrate, or best is to take the old one out and put both clown fish (old and new) into a quarantinen tank.

That's what I did with my female that was alone for 1 year. I took her out and put her at the same time as my new (much smaller one) into a quarantine tank.

That way the female is not so territorial and she will be more prone to accept the new one.

They formed a couple after 4 weeks in quarantine so I could put them back into the main tank after 6 weeks without problem. If needed, it is a lot easier to separate the tank in half with eggcrate if there is fighting to let them get used to each other.