Clownfish

[Himes102]

Hey! Hope someone can help out.

Just put two clowns in my 13.5 evo yesterday and they did great adjusting throughout the day. Today when I got home I noticed one would kinda push the other around and the one doing the pushing would kinda lay on its side and shake a bit. The one getting pushed around has parts of fins missing (was all there yesterday) what's going on?

 

[humphreyhh]

Are they paired already? Might be fighting for dominance if they were not paired already.


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[Himes102]

I don’t believe they’re paired yet

 

[shifty51008]

they will be fine, they are just figuring out who will be the female and who will be the male

 

[Kinetic]

They will fight for dominance. Eventually one will either submit or die. Usually if they're the same size the fighting is bad until one is finally defeated. Otherwise the bigger one will quickly establish itself.

 

[Himes102]

The one is clearly bigger but still both are small. This morning they’re swimming in place with each other. Fingers crossed they’ll be ok.

 

[ReefMaster48]

They will fight for dominance. Eventually one will either submit or die. Usually if they're the same size the fighting is bad until one is finally defeated. Otherwise the bigger one will quickly establish itself.

+1

My current clowns are also fighting for dominance. They went through a "rough" period, but now they are still fighting, but not all the time.

It is just them attempting to find the stronger and more dominate one. One should be female, and the submissive one will be male. By the time they figure that out, either one will be killed or they will get along great. Just something you have to let be, but nothing to be worried about. They will figure it out on their own.