clownfish fighting at night

[Chokeit89]

okay so i have 2 clownfish and one is a little bigger then the other and i noticed a couple days ago the smaller on was like spazing, well i looked it up and what i found was that he shows the he gives up and they are working on pairing up.

well my two clown are fine all day long and swim all around my Gigantea and as soon as my blue lights come on its seems like its game on the bigger clown chases the little one and pecks at it and seems like is attacking him. so the little one will hide so the big clown(girl) cannot find him.

Is this normal in pairing up process?

any advice?

 

[cannon77]

Not normal for "pairing" but normal for the female to establish nesting area. We had a few act like that. All was good throughout the day and night time, mama turned evil, once the males let mama have her "space" at night, all was fine. Other clowns of ours though, sleep on top of one another and NEVER seperate by more than an inch or two. They are just crazy fish. Just speaking from what our clowns have done in our tanks

 

[hermesfansf]

I have 2 pairs of clown. The WC percula/picasso pair will sleep next to each other on the RBTA. The tank raised ORA snowflake/black clown will not, and they won't host BTA but something that is flat such as brain coral and scolymia.

 

[cannon77]

Like the name says, clowns, they are funny little fish!

You could always try the reversed method of introduction. Put the female in a specimen container for a few days, let the male run the tank and see if she changes her attitude?

 

[Korrine]

If the lil male isn't tattered or torn just leave them be. If serious damage is occurring pull him.


Isn't that spazzing funny! Looks like he's having a seizure, but that's just what they do