Dealing with a territorial to corals clown

[Parrotfish100]

If I place a coral within 12 inches of my female GB Maroon's anemone, she puts her mouth on it and flips it off. I just got a large oxypora today and the perfect spot where I want it is about 8 inches from the nem. I had it loose on the rock getting ready to prepare the epoxy and glue when she came up to it, found a weak spot and flipped it 6 inches up where it fell and tore a spot on my open brain coral. She also tore up her side in the process.

Any tips on dealing with this?

 

[Fishfish0001]

Mine does this... with the entire flipping tank. I just gave up on corals and enjoy the few that I have right now. I doubt you will be able to get one much closer.

I tried using epoxy super glued to the rock, then super glue a coral to a small rock , then epoxy and super glue that rock to the other epoxy, and I came back and the coral was destroyed.

I gave up to say the least.

 

[Parrotfish100]

Mine does this... with the entire flipping tank. I just gave up on corals and enjoy the few that I have right now. I doubt you will be able to get one much closer.

I tried using epoxy super glued to the rock, then super glue a coral to a small rock , then epoxy and super glue that rock to the other epoxy, and I came back and the coral was destroyed.

I gave up to say the least.

Yeah I don't risk gluing it till I test out a spot and I know its safe. I mde that mistake and my jawfish tried to take my zoas for its home. I have one left that wasn't destroyed:thumbdown

 

[WaffleWalffle22]

So I'm guessing a pair of maroons isn't the best for a 28 gallon tank for just corals?

 

[Parrotfish100]

So I'm guessing a pair of maroons isn't the best for a 28 gallon tank for just corals?

Hehe, expect it to be rearranged and upside down. Go with Ocellaris or one of the smaller species. My female is about 4 inches long and really needs her space.


I'm pretty SOL with half my 120 now for corals lol! She doesn't attack my open brain though so I'm just going to keep the larger sand-dwelling LPS on that side. Except my Galaxea. That thing is mean.

 

[jasonrp104]

My female would move my plate, frogspawn, and devils hand. I eventualy ended up moving the plate and anchoring the spawn and hand to rocks that were too big for her to move. After beating on them for a few days, she gave up

 

[velvetelvis]

So I'm guessing a pair of maroons isn't the best for a 28 gallon tank for just corals?

Maroons are gorgeous, but they get really big. I've seen some full-grown females that were easily 6" long. They could really tear up your tank. If you had your heart set on them, I reckon maybe you could try leather corals or other tough softies. At least they wouldn't frag if one of your clowns decided to do some rearranging.

 

[Fishfish0001]

They are genuine turds. Cute and fuzzy at the start, then they go through the a-hole stage and become your owner...

 

[Parrotfish100]

They are genuine turds. Cute and fuzzy at the start, then they go through the a-hole stage and become your owner...

LOL true that.:thumbsup: I dn't regret my purchase of them one bit though, they are still some of my favorites.