Sleeping at the surface

[Joe Pusdesris]

I have had a female percula clown that sleeps at the surface for almost a year now, and she still has not mated with the male. Has anyone else experienced clowns sleeping at the surface of the water, and if so, did it spawn eventually?

 

[syrinx]

I have one that always slept at surface- for the first year or so. I was constantly worried it would go over the overflow! Never would pair up- and will be hosted by anything but a anemone.

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

I cannot understand that statement. Can you please rephrase it?

 

[jmadison]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15566644#post15566644 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by syrinx
I have one that always slept at surface- for the first year or so.

self-explanatory

I was constantly worried it would go over the overflow!

Worried that the clown while sleeping at the surface would get near the overflow and fall over it and end up in the overflow box or whind up in the sump

Never would pair up- and will be hosted by anything but a anemone.

The clown didn't pair up with the other clown presumed to be in the tank, and it would be 'hosted' by everything(usually powerheads, various coral, thermometer probes, basically any object or thing) EXCEPT for being hosted by an actual anemone.



Did that make sense? It's pretty clear.

 

[Coral Hind]

This is normal, especially with tank raised clowns. Clowns will normally stay to the surface at night when they do not have an anemone to sleep in or they have not yet created a bond with the anemone in the tank. I assume they just feel safer up there as danger normally lurks in the rocks out in the wild.

Do you have an anemone?
Where does the male sleep?

 

[gemmasicolo]

That's exactly what my wc true perc did........she slept on the top back wall of my nano cube and every once and a while she would jump in the back chambers and I'd have to fish her out.

I got her at the beggining of the year, then a month later I got a rbta, then right after I got a small male clown. They got along fine and he even started sleeping at the top with her. They NEVER went into the anemone until finally last weekend! I thought it would never happen. They act like completely different clowns now. She has become very aggressive and won't let us put our hands in there for cleaning anymore!

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

Thanks for all the responses so far.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15567433#post15567433 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Coral Hind
Do you have an anemone?
Where does the male sleep?

No, I do not have an anemone. I read that they are not required for spawning.

Sometimes the male sleeps in the nest area that the two of them dug up together, sometimes he sleeps next to the female at the surface.

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15566949#post15566949 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jmadison
Did that make sense? It's pretty clear.

Yes, it makes sense now. Thankyou.

 

[yukonblizzard]

My pair do this too. I always wondered why they would want to stay near the surface during the night. I would think they would feel more secure in the rocks.

 

[Joe Pusdesris]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15571314#post15571314 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by yukonblizzard
My pair do this too. I always wondered why they would want to stay near the surface during the night. I would think they would feel more secure in the rocks.

How long have you had your's? Have they spawned?

I read somewhere that it can be because the oxygen level at the surface is greater, but I find that highly unlikely in my tank, I have 53x turnover.