Clown's have sharp teeth

[acook]

Ok how do I get my female Percula to stop bitting me when I put my hand, arm, etc in the tank. I have had this fish around 2 years and she does have a male. Both are fat happy and currently hosting my 8 headed torch coral. Lets get past the common sense answers of "she's protecting her territory". Is there any training that might can be done to stop this behavior.


Thanks Dale

 

[Slakker]

Perhaps if you feed her from your hand, she'll stop attacking your hand...then again, maybe it'll get worse and she'll attack more...lol

I know you're not looking for people to say stuff like this, but perhaps she's getting more territorial because your clowns are starting to prepare a spawning site!

 

[Peter Eichler]

Wear a shark hand puppet :lol:

 

[nick18tjetta]

A percula can't be that bad, I had a 6" Goldstrip maroon that would draw blood on a regular basis.

 

[acook]

LoL you guys made my night. Yea If she were to spawn I'd be a proud PAPA. More likely she associates my hand with food and my arm is attached to my hand and so on. A 6" goldstripe maroon is a big clown, and so is a 4"perc when she's latched on to your pincky fingure

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Yeah my Fire Clown used to do that to me all the time. I ended up giving that little ****** back to the LFS.

 

[acook]

LOL well these little buggers are my wifes babies. And as you well know you can't get your wife to commit to a reef tank without a little nemo action. LOL, my toll is up to 10 times in 5 days. I generaly don't put my hand in my tank that often, but my wife has started a 29 gallon and half of the corals are going in hers. I haven't had blood drawn yet nick18tjetta But if my female keeps getting bigger it won't be long.