Male clown getting rejected?
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hotelbravo
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what species of clown is this and how long have they been together
Snowflake clown sorry not good with my clown species but they have also been together since I rescued them from petco about two years ago and they haven't grown too much but the female has obviously grown into her female role she has always been bigger.
I'd say about a year ago they started to decide who is going to be female which was already chosen and I know that they both aren't females because even though the female is pretty aggressive they never lock mouths, but when they started it wasn't bad, she would charge and he would turn and do the clownfish shake then that was it. Then she started to nip at his underside then about a couple of days ago I was watching and she grabbed on to his forgive me but rear pectoral fin I think? Not the tail fin but the one right behind his hole and she shook him around a little bit and then let go. That's the worst its gotten. With the charging and the nipping it isn't every once in a while it's quite a bit when I watch them it's normally for about 15-20 minutes after I feed them and she would rush/nip maybe 7 or 8 times within 15-20 minutes, now I have only seen her lock on once though.
Another thing to take note of is if my cool white LED go off or I turn them off she goes into very aggressive mode chasing him around the tank and the other rushing and niping it's gotten to the point that If I do which I almost never do any more that he will go hide under the anemone or lodge himself under the "frogspawn forest" so she can't find him.
I'd say about a year ago they started to decide who is going to be female which was already chosen and I know that they both aren't females because even though the female is pretty aggressive they never lock mouths, but when they started it wasn't bad, she would charge and he would turn and do the clownfish shake then that was it. Then she started to nip at his underside then about a couple of days ago I was watching and she grabbed on to his forgive me but rear pectoral fin I think? Not the tail fin but the one right behind his hole and she shook him around a little bit and then let go. That's the worst its gotten. With the charging and the nipping it isn't every once in a while it's quite a bit when I watch them it's normally for about 15-20 minutes after I feed them and she would rush/nip maybe 7 or 8 times within 15-20 minutes, now I have only seen her lock on once though.
Another thing to take note of is if my cool white LED go off or I turn them off she goes into very aggressive mode chasing him around the tank and the other rushing and niping it's gotten to the point that If I do which I almost never do any more that he will go hide under the anemone or lodge himself under the "frogspawn forest" so she can't find him.
