How do i make my clown stop nipping my hand?

[reefkeeper27439]

Hi,
i have a false perk clown and it nipps my hand every time it can.
How would i get him to stop this.....for good?

 

[karlitosway]

Stop putting your hand in the tank.:mixed:

 

[reefkeeper27439]

well i cant i like to move the rocks about one time every 2 months and i have to put my hands in the tank to clean the glass and just the normall stuff. Oh and i should say that this clown has killed 3 fish 1 tang and 2 clown fish and this fish has a 9 inch bubbletip "home".

 

[rrome]

It's kinda hard to try to keep an animal from defending it's terrytory.

I agree that the best thing if to stop putting your hand in the tank

 

[reefkeeper27439]

hm.... its just imposible and its to hard to try and cach the fish. im thinking of buying a refugium that is about 28 inches long 12 inches wide and i thing 18 or 10 inches hight would he be able to live in there?

 

[818]

What I did with mine it may seem cruel to you guys...but I kinda flicked them kinda hard when they used to bite the webbing between my fingers... Not hard enough to kill them but enough as if a big fish where to headbutt them....FLICK FLICK!! Theyll remember that beleive me...

 

[reefkeeper27439]

mine bites between my ingers to there smart and know it dosent put on the fingers.

 

[aurorafish]

Mine female tomato clown draws blood almost every time seems to know how to bite right at the veins. It hurts enough to make you think twice about going in. Rubber gloves would probably help

 

[reefkeeper27439]

thats a good idea aurorafish.

 

[aurorafish]

Ive considered buying gloves , but I am 225lbs and shes like 4 ounces.

 

[Freed]

Bite it on its fin.

 

[oama]

One former broodstock person I worked with always wore rings on all of his fingers. He swore that the clowns always nipped at those first and then had second thoughts on biting again. Until the hand was inserted next time...

 

[ricordiaking]

I think you should bite back

 

[KEstep]

I wave my hand when the clown I have gets close (draws blood ><) Usually the current created spooks the fish enough to stay away for a few minutes.

 

[dantodd]

I've tried being aggressive back toward the fish by moving my hand toward her and it usually works ONCE (maybe twice.) After that she just waits until I'm done moving my hand around then BANG she hits me again. She's a clarkii and has yet to draw blood. She only started doing this since she's been spawning.

 

[tag]

obviously you've never had to siphon crud out of a pirahna tank

 

[icarus999]

give it a lecture, thats what me teachers did to me

 

[Sk8r]

Mine never bit my hand until I one day exchanged his anemone. After that the gold ring I wear became the enemy. A clown never forgets.

 

[raoul]

Our girl did that to my husband for a while, everytime he stuck his hand in the tank. She grew out of it when I started feeding the tank with a turkey baster, I don't know if it was me, or if she associated the baster (and hand) with food and realized it was not a threat. She's fine when my husband feeds the tank, but NOT if he moves things. The closer he gets to the nem, the more aggressive she becomes. She started this back up when he started messing with her nem! I think she holds it against him! A few weeks ago, she drew blood! She's not even that big yet!
Trying to undo so many millenia of instinct isn't easy!
Good luck!

 

[rrome]

>28 inches long 12 inches wide and i thing 18 or 10 inches hight would he be able to live in there?

Yes. A human may also be able to live in a 6 foot by 6 foot by 8 foot room.