Aggressive Clownfish

brad2157

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Bought a Aqua Euro 34g tank a week ago from a guy getting out of the hobby. The factory lid was removed and it is being used as a open top with a Kessil A350 led light. Came with a clownfish (onyx I believe), a green chromis, and a engineer goby, among various corals and a long spine urchin. Both the clown and chromis are approximately 2.5" long. I have two turbo snails and a emerald crab also.

The clownfish chases the chromis around the tank a lot. It even snipped at my hand when I rearranged the corals in the tank. There is a large multi-head of frogspawn that the clown loves to get in at night when the lights are off.

From what I read online, these are percula type clowns and aren't supposed to be that aggressive. I'm to the point where I'm about ready to get him out and trade him in for store credit at the LFS and find a replacement fish or two. I want to have other fish besides the clown, so if he wants to bully all the other fish I may have in there, then I think he needs to go.

Given the 34g tank size, what other fish could I go with that would play well with my chromis and goby, but not harm my corals? Had a six-line wrasse before, but it was very aggressive in my 120g tank I had at the time. Would love a tang or angelfish, but I'm sure I would need a much larger tank to house either one of those. Would like to add something that is colorful and fairly active.
 
Clowns are renowned for biting people's hands when arrange rock work, they can be very territorial.
Both clowns and damsels are territorial and it could just be too small of an area for them to get on.

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In my experience clowns can be jerks. Sounds like that might not be what you want. If that's the case. You probably should try trading it at the lfs.
 
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