Is This Normal

EnglishRebel

Retired Rebel Reefer
I am new to keeping fish and have just transferred my two false Perculas from QT to my 180 gallon display. For the first three or four days they stayed in the right hand front corner. Yesterday the female has started exploring the rest of the tank but the male tends to stay in one spot in a hollow in the sand next to a rock on the right hand end. He looks sort of like he's guarding a nest. Also the female eats more than he does.
Is this normal behavior?
 
clownfish don't tend to have very big territories so that is very normal behavior for the male to stay pretty close to one spot. I have 7 ocellaris clowns in my 55 gallon and they don't usually go more than 5 or 6 inches from the mushrooms they call home.
 
My clowns are maroons, but that is very much like their behaviour when they first came home. Except that its a power head that they're hanging out by,
 
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