Someone give me your input please. I bought a gladiator and black ocelaris and they were perfectly fine. I screwed up by thinking I could add another pair with no issues and they’ve been butting heads here and there. They swim together and randomly have a stare down and time to time butt heads. My new pair is a tad bit larger and it seems the only ones butting heads are the 2 new and the gladiator. Black clown is submissive and they don’t bother him. I watched them for a couple hours and ended up cutting my lights out. They settled and hopefully in the morning they will be more chill. But I might have to take 2 back to avoid any loss of life. Any tips or advice? Should I give it more time or take them back right away? My tanks a 32 g fluval flex. Plenty long
Once they turn female, theres no going back lol its a female for life. So those 2 will fight to the death or until you take 1 out. Other then that some will both wanna be the female and it may take awhile to decide who's gonna submit other times the male will submit instantly just depends but once they start doing the shiver dance you know. Then it's up to the female to except him if she does she'll probably do the dance back to him to let him know. Not all males follow the role. The number 1 no no of the male is not to eat first lol she won't tolerate that if she isn't eating enough first. Theres a million little things to learn about these guys but experience is the best way. Research can only take you so far but obviously will help. Its really not as intimidating or complicated as it sounds though
I’ve had a clownfish who has lived alone for about a year. just got another one and the newer one is viscously attacking the original one. What should i do?
I will edit that when it shows up good job 👍 new to salt! Good move it’s all personality in salt. Check out the flame hawk fish 🐠 u will luv him.also ur tank looks cloudy ,unless your treating something it shouldn’t be that cloudy but keep it up…johnny5..wife’s e.address.
everyone needs to understand that they arnt gonna fight 24/7 because they are new they are just finding whos dominent but after they figured their sh- out then they will be fine.
I bought 2 clarkii clowns from the same aquarium. One I much larger than the other one. The bigger one just is absolutely nasty to the other one any suggestions? I want to add other fish to the aquarium but worry what may happen. They have been in my aquarium for over 30 days.
Doesn’t work that way once a clownfish becomes female it can’t revert to being male. When introducing a new clownfish always go smaller / juvenile than the existing one to reduce aggression. The smaller one will fall in line and avoid fighting. Unless I’m a very large tank you cannot have two females and even then unless they establish territories far enough apart they will kill each other.
Very cool setup! I liked the live plants. My daughters and I just caught a male and female outside. Now we’re thinking we may set up a love shack terrarium and observe to see if tiny toads will magically appear… 🤞 love from NWA ❤️🇺🇸
Nice tank! Thinking of doing something with mine. I have 10 baby toads I found at a store garden center, they were all getting stepped on so I was able to save a few. Wanna at least raise them until they become a bit bigger.
This same thing happened to me. I had one really cool looking Misbar Clown and introduce a Gladiator clown. The misbar was in the tank for a year. It did not end well. The $24 misbar destroyed the gladiator. We’re talking K.O. In 2 weeks. I do believe you should get them as a pair or as juveniles. Sometimes that’s not always the case when you want a really cool designer clown and you can only afford one because corals. Good advice.
Typically speaking, this should be okay. I've not done it myself, but I've found many success stories with percula and ocelarris. As with anything, carefully monitor over the first couple of days. But you should be fine.
Can they really change from female back to male? Because other people kept saying that once they been a female, it can no longer change back to male..🤔
It can happens but it is not the usual, once it is female, it will be always female. To change it to a male again it would very very hard to happen... but it is not impossible just hard the animal accept to go down hierachy again.
@@pltleandro No it don't happen Their gender change is one directional. Once the dominant male change into female, it cannot change back into male again. The change is irreversible.
@@mukhfishfarm5078 No once they transform into female , they can't change into male again That's why always buy clownfish of two different sizes - so the smaller one already accept his defeat and stay in male - where as larger one will change into female.
Why didn't you fill the tank with the RODI water first then bring the entire tank to the correct salinity? You would have only had to make saltwater and bring it to the correct salinity once.
