How to tell if Clowns are a Pair?

[MrKeishii]

I just recently found another Ocellaris for my Ocellaris clown at home, I inserted the new clown in the aquarium and i noticed that the two did not harass each other. Now the ? is, How Can I Tell If My Clowns Are Paired Up? Or Signs Of Pairing?

thank you

P.S. I saw my clowns interacting my movement of body, and I noticed my Ocellaris shaking as if it has a seizure. <--- is that how you can tell that it is paired up?

 

[ilovesoda]

My two clowns (smaller than an inch) swim towards each other and have seizures too. I would like to know why this happens, it's pretty funny to watch though!

 

[lbaldrey]

Seizures & the shudders are courting rituals also playful chasing...youll find the male will end up biting the rock and swimming like hes gone nuts too ...pretty cool display...what the fool doesnt know is he'll stop growing and end up staying at home to fan the eggs when the mrs. cruises the tank

If you have an anemone and they both share it without war...they've usually taken the plunge...

 

[MrKeishii]

Seizures & the shudders are courting rituals also playful chasing...youll find the male will end up biting the rock and swimming like hes gone nuts too ...pretty cool display...what the fool doesnt know is he'll stop growing and end up staying at home to fan the eggs when the mrs. cruises the tank

If you have an anemone and they both share it without war...they've usually taken the plunge...

So how long does it usually take for them to finish courting and becoming a Pair? I seen the two swimming above flat piece of rock does that mean they are trying to find a place to lay eggs?

 

[arioch]

It won't be anywhere near this fast.

 

[MrKeishii]

It won't be anywhere near this fast.

Hey Arioch, can i see a pic of your 5.5 gallon Mantis Aquarium?

 

[Paul B]

How to tell if Clowns are a Pair?

When you have two of them :hmm4:
No really. Clowns don't have to be male and female as one of them will change to be female and one will remain male. (or the other way around, I forget)
But anyway, yours are showing courting behaviour so I would say they are a pair.
When the male starts biting you when you put your hand in there and chasing other fish, that is also courting signs. Nothing will happen unless the female is full of eggs even though the male will constantly try to get her into the nest. To get her into spawning mode she needs good foold preferably something that is oily like live blackworms. I doubt they will spawn if you just feed flakes and pellets.

 

[arioch]

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A kind of overview of what the tank looks like.

 

[electroblake]

I agree. If you have two who are living peacefully together, share an anemone or swim close together at night, then you've probably got a pair. The shaking is part of their mating ritual and their way of establishing who will be the dominant female (or something like that). What I usually see is that if you start with two clowns of the same size, one will be slightly more aggressive and the other will usually do the shaking dance to pacify the aggressive one, as if to say, look man, I don't mean you any trouble, you go ahead and eat 90% of the food pellets, I'll just take whatever's left over. This usually results in the more aggressive one becoming larger, and therefor the female of the pair.

I wouldn't hold my breath re: actual breeding. I have a pair of Ocellaris clowns that exhibited this kind of behavior for three years without ever laying eggs. Then one day, boom, a small nest of eggs. Two weeks later, a nest three times as large. They've been laying a nest of 300-400 eggs every couple of weeks (literally every 14 or 15 days) ever since.

Best of luck,
Blake.

 

[MrKeishii]

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A kind of overview of what the tank looks like.

Oh wow thats beautiful, what kind of mantis did you have? I had a Peacock in my 10g but i traded him in, and i sold my green mantis to one of my friends lol. are u running two filtration systems? has ur mantis ever tried eating any of ur fish? cuz my peacock rejected squid pieces one day and ended up eating my blue damsel lol

 

[MrKeishii]

I agree. If you have two who are living peacefully together, share an anemone or swim close together at night, then you've probably got a pair. The shaking is part of their mating ritual and their way of establishing who will be the dominant female (or something like that). What I usually see is that if you start with two clowns of the same size, one will be slightly more aggressive and the other will usually do the shaking dance to pacify the aggressive one, as if to say, look man, I don't mean you any trouble, you go ahead and eat 90% of the food pellets, I'll just take whatever's left over. This usually results in the more aggressive one becoming larger, and therefor the female of the pair.

I wouldn't hold my breath re: actual breeding. I have a pair of Ocellaris clowns that exhibited this kind of behavior for three years without ever laying eggs. Then one day, boom, a small nest of eggs. Two weeks later, a nest three times as large. They've been laying a nest of 300-400 eggs every couple of weeks (literally every 14 or 15 days) ever since.

Best of luck,
Blake.

thanks blake appreciate the info. My Ocellaris are actually really peaceful lolz i enjoy watching them

 

[arioch]

Oh wow thats beautiful, what kind of mantis did you have? I had a Peacock in my 10g but i traded him in, and i sold my green mantis to one of my friends lol. are u running two filtration systems? has ur mantis ever tried eating any of ur fish? cuz my peacock rejected squid pieces one day and ended up eating my blue damsel lol

I had what was probably a N. wennerae. It died on me due to a bad molt.

There are no fish in the 5.5 at the moment, although I've toyed with the idea of putting a clown in there.

The filtration system on the 5.5 is a Danner Supreme Skilter 400, I ripped out the filter media, added some sewing grid plastic mesh to the media holders, and modded it with an airstone to get rid of the noise and the excess microbubbles. The second chamber there holds chaeto, some rubble, and an underwater halogen bulb on a reverse light cycle.

I probably wouldn't risk a peacock in the 5.5.

 

[L-Dog]

They should look like this dog: