Gyrating Clownfish

[Schwe]

I have two Ocellaris clowns in my 90 gal. that I recently started. The clowns have been in the tank for about two weeks. I purchased them at a local LFS, they were the same size, about 2". Maybe I've been staring at my tank too long, but one started to look larger than the other, and its' colors were turning a deeper orange. I speculated that this fish was turning female.

Today I was staring at my rocks and tank (as usual) and noticed the male (?) clown swimming a bit funny. Then he started vibrating/gyrating in front of the female (?). Is this a spawning/pairing behavior? If not, what does this indicate?

I'm new to the hobby and just fascinated, lol.

 

[Purple Penguins]

this is one clownfish being submisive to the other clownfish, very normal behavior, its possible the one shaking may become be a male and the other might become female or already is, its hard to say, rolls might still change if they are both still males

 

[Schwe]

Thanks for the reply!

The one gyrating is the only one that I have seen do this. The other fish doesn't seem to care about his display one way or the other.

Actually, now that I think of it... since I've seen the fish submit, they aren't swimming as close to each other as they were previously. hmm...