Black O Clowns more aggressive?

[NJGirlinPhx]

DH and I are slowly starting up our first reef tank. (Currently have a yellow tang, two orange spot sleeper gobies, and 3 itty bitty green chromis. We know we eventually want to get a pair of clowns. While I love Maroons, I know they can be super agressive so we've ruled them out. But the other day someone told me the back o clowns can be on the more agressive side too. Can anyone confirm this? I realize, like any other creature, it depends on the individual fish.

TIA!

 

[sk8boarder]

Black O's are really not that aggressive. mine just hog the food

 

[Zaita]

Mine are 100% placid. I even have to push them out of the way to clean They are very peaceful

 

[GustavoAZ]

Peacefull to me but not anything that comes near it's anemone. It just chases everything smaller than it away then comes right back to it.

 

[Bmgrocks]

I have an overly aggressive 2" black ocellaris clown, who attacks anything other than fish in the tank, My hands,wrists, fish nets , algae scrapers, he dive bombs it and bites with a suprising amounts of force, I guess he's just protecting his elegance coral

 

[jefathome]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12806005#post12806005 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GustavoAZ
Peacefull to me but not anything that comes near it's anemone. It just chases everything smaller than it away then comes right back to it.

I have a pair. Female is about 3.5in, male is about 3.
Mine don't chase other fish at all. Very peaceful. HUHE eaters though.

Their little quirk is that they dont like any changes around their area. They always knock over my clam, and will overturn any frag I put within 5in of their home (some green mushrooms in this case)

They don't harass me when I put my hand in the tank though. The Midas Blenny does instead.

 

[Octopus8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12806414#post12806414 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bmgrocks
I have an overly aggressive 2" black ocellaris clown, who attacks anything other than fish in the tank, My hands,wrists, fish nets , algae scrapers, he dive bombs it and bites with a suprising amounts of force, I guess he's just protecting his elegance coral

Same here!:lol:

My orange male is as docile as can be. My female black Ocellaris ignores everything except my hand and the Orchid Dottyback(if it gets near HER POWERHEAD). That hard little chomp startled the crap out of me the first time!:eek2:

 

[Zaita]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12806414#post12806414 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bmgrocks
I have an overly aggressive 2" black ocellaris clown, who attacks anything other than fish in the tank, My hands,wrists, fish nets , algae scrapers, he dive bombs it and bites with a suprising amounts of force, I guess he's just protecting his elegance coral

Our male Occ clown is the same. But none of the B&W Occ (2 pairs) has any aggression at all. Only the standard orange male gets aggressive.

 

[rickh]

My B&W doesn't really hurt the other fish, a Tail Spot Blenny and Purple Firefish, he just likes to "F" with them.

The Blenny and the Clown follow each other around have a contest to see who can make the most ferocious face. They never touch each other.

The Clown like to block the entrance to the Firefish's favorite hole in the rock. There are a hundred other ways out of the rock, but the Firefish likes that one and Mr. Clown knows it. He also never touches the Firefish.

R

 

[gpsmart]

I breed the Black and the Orange Ocellaris. The blacks are definately more aggressive to each other but seem the tolerate being mixed with the orange ones. I had to remove the smaller black from my display tank but the larger black one has never shown aggression towards the two orange ones. It has actually paired up with one of the orange ones. The parents are in a tank on their own so they have no competition but the female will try to have a go at anything I use to try to wipe down the outside of her tank.

I suspect if you have two in a tank then you will be OK but if you try to add more ocellaris you may have problems. However, as you say it depends on the individual fish.

 

[rkelman]

I have Blacks and Orange as well (I breed Blacks) and I don't really see any difference. Other then my breeding pair are larger thus more aggressive.. They even still aren't very aggressive. (don't mess with the nest or their anemone though) But the pair of true percs I had in my tank with them for a while kicked their butts. I serisouly thought the percs were going to kill them.

 

[NJGirlinPhx]

Thanks for the answers everyone!

 

[Terryz_]

I guess they are okay... Just dun get near their nest and anemone... My BW pair are super aggressive when any fishes get near their nest and anemone... Seens them attacking my algae blenny cos the blenny hole is near the anemone.. They even attack my angel when it swim pass the anemone...