Large Maroon and new BTA

[clearwaterblue]

I usually do a lot of searching and reading before posting, but I can't seem to find anything so specific to this.

I bought my first BTA yesterday and placed him in the tank. He spent the evening and the night roaming around until he got stuck in the back of the tank. This morning, I rearranged the rocks a bit, being careful not to disturb him and fortunately he came out from the back and sat down right in the front between two rocks. I fed him some mysis shrimp and he seemed to get the point. He stayed put.

About 20 minutes later my maroon noticed him and started nudging him a bit. Then rubbing himself all over him...... then he started getting (what appears to be) more aggressive. He is really going at this thing, so much that he keeps flipping the anemone over.

Is this normal? Should I do anything? The anemone doesn't have a foothold on anything and I'm worried that the clown will keep this up until the anemone is dead.

I know this is a newbie question and I hope someone has some good advice for me.

Thanks!

 

[clearwaterblue]

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[ptreef]

I had a gold stripe maroon and he would attack my hand when it would get about 8" or closer to his nem!

Mean suckers they are!!

 

[ptreef]

hopefully the nem can get upright and attach. I'd say move him so his foot is touching rock so he can grab hold

 

[clearwaterblue]

He's still going at it. I tried moving him a few times to nearby rocks but he just rolls off them. I guess I shouldn't worry so much about it. I'll give it time and see what happens.


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[Mikesville510]

That nem looks like it's a little too small for your maroon. I hope your nem acclimates.

 

[clearwaterblue]

OK, I was afraid of that. He is upside down again today. I am thinking of taking him out and placing him in another tank I have with two small Ocellaris clowns that I have.

The only thing that worries me about that is that he was just placed in this tank two days ago and I'm thinking it might be bad to move him to a new tank so quickly?

Anyone have any thoughts on this or any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

 

[ptreef]

Net the clown for now. Put him in a fish breeder net. Can get at most LFS.

If he loves the nem this much should be somewhat easy to net?
or net the nem and put him in the net breeder and maybe a small piece of LR for him to attach his foot. Then move the rock & nem