clownfish.. NOT reef safe (!!?!!)

[TOURKID]

I just don't get it! I have 1 maroon clown a BTA, and a bloodshrimp.. and softies/polyps

My maroon just keeps getting meaner and more disrespectful!! While my anemone was moving i was taking rovk ruble and trying to make more crevises for anemone. The maroon would pick up these rocks, 3 times the weight of her, and throw them!

now yesterday I caught her biting off green star polyps and spitting them out. today i came home and the frag rock it was on was on the other side of the tank!

I said fine you win, and i flipped over the rock and left it there.
Minutes later shes now biting and spitting out my moon polyps!

evil girl

 

[dantodd]

We like to call it "personality."

 

[TOURKID]

ya, well she dident get her name feebee by chance

Still to worried about her try adding another fish yet

 

[dantodd]

feebee, that's classic. I don't usually name my fish though my last pair of clarkii ended up with names and now that I'm pairing Martha up with another fish I guess he'll have to have a name, you can't have a fish with a name paired with a fish with no name.

And, I posted pics of my mantis and now people are naming him/her.

 

[TOURKID]

lol I enjoy naming them. she went nameless for awhile, but I kept calling her bad names,and cute sweet names dident seem to fit! so it worked itself out that way lol

 

[SVXH6]

i had to get rid of mine.. she was way to crazy for me, she also would eat my star polyps, knock rocks over and throw any frag clear across the tank that she could!! make giant sand piles, she just drove me nuts.. awesome looking fish but crazy..i got her at an 1 inch and she left at 3 inches, that was in a year!!

 

[stupac21]

Maroon Clownfish are much more aggressive than other types.

They aren't even in the same genus as all other clown fishes which are Amphiprion, They are Premnas.

I just read this book with lots of info on clowns, it was real good.


Quote:

"Of the 28 recognized clownfish species, 27 belong to the genus Amphiprion, the remaining odd one being the Maroon Clownfish, Premnas Biaulaetus. As Maroon Clownfish are loners and adverse to sharing tank space with other clowns, it seems fitting that they do not even share the same genus. Maroons belong to the genus Premnas because, unlike all other clownfishes, they have a bony cheek spine below each eye, in front of their gill covers. Premnas occur as solitary couples in the ocean, with only the two adults occupying their anenome;they do not live as social units with juveniles."


(Clownfishes: a guide to their captive care, Breeding, and Natural History, by Joyce D. Wilkerson)

I'm not tryin to promote the book or anything, I didn't write it, it was just good. :rollface:

 

[IslandCrow]

Oh yeah, another book to buy! I love my maroon. She hasn't developed into a terror yet, but she certainly is very particular about how she likes her area of the tank to look. I don't even try to argue anymore.

 

[TOURKID]

clownfishes is a great book.

yeah. i think shes trying to redecorate the whole tank!! lol
shes so intuitive you cant move or add a thing without her being right on top of it

 

[zoltetov]

Mine is feng sheu too... She's definitely queen of the tank, but she's a sweety. She doesn't like Sigmund (my wrasse) near her territory, but whenever my mandarin comes near, she moves out of the way for her. She'll even eat out of my fingers. I'd get rid of everything else before I'd get rid of her.

 

[Snprhed]

Is there any truth to the wives tale about the darkness of the color being indicative of temperment with maroons?

 

[TOURKID]

mines still young and shes gotton alot darker since i got here. her face is really really dark almost black/brown, and its lightens in degrees to a bright maroon by her tail.her belly is lighter than her back to.

but Ive never heard this tail. curious too. heres a pic of mine Its a bad pic but you can see the color diff. alot. shes still young as far as I know and shes under 2 inches still for sure