Small Picasso punking BIG Snowflake

[Ludecrasher]

Bought 2 clowns from different places in the same day. 1 is a snowflake, about two inches, and the other is a picasso, between 1-1.5 inches. Weird thing is that the small Picasso is showing the more aggression and being dominant, and now the bigger snowflake is starting to have the seizers. I thought the big one would be the dominator and the small picasso would be twitching, but not here! Looks really funny the small picasso punking the big snowflake. Is this normal?

 

[Ludecrasher]

Here's a pic...

 

[nanoreefer1000]

I think you got the variants/species mixed, to me it seems as if the "Fancy White" Occy is smaller and the Picasso perc is larger.

 

[Azedenkae]

Bought 2 clowns from different places in the same day. 1 is a snowflake, about two inches, and the other is a picasso, between 1-1.5 inches. Weird thing is that the small Picasso is showing the more aggression and being dominant, and now the bigger snowflake is starting to have the seizers. I thought the big one would be the dominator and the small picasso would be twitching, but not here! Looks really funny the small picasso punking the big snowflake. Is this normal?

The reason why the bigger one tends to 'punk' the smaller one is because the bigger one tends to be female and the smaller one tends to be male, and that's the reason for the 'punking' - the wife likes to boss the hubby around.

I'm not too sure, but I'd assume if your smaller one happens to be female whilst the larger one happens to be male, the smaller one's boss the larger one around.

 

[Ludecrasher]

Yes that's why it's weird. The smaller one is the boss of them two. Never heard of that before. As far as names that's what was told to me. I'm new to all this stuff but got them at really great prices.

 

[stickleback]

Here's a pic...

The upper fish is the Occ, the lower fish is the picasso.

 

[OrionN]

i think you got the variants/species mixed, to me it seems as if the "fancy white" occy is smaller and the picasso perc is larger.

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[Ludecrasher]

Thanks for clearing that up for me guys.

 

[Ludecrasher]

Wow so just got info on it. Never even heard of a "Fancy" clown lol. Fancy and Picasso it is!

 

[Rare Angels]

That's a little strange, usually percs are more aggressive than occ.

 

[Reef*freak]

In my experience occ are more aggressive then percs

 

[Pastey]

My occ. have definitely been more aggressive than my percs but I've also had occy's be completely docile.

 

[sparky45]

I can catch my percs with my hands.

 

[OrionN]

As a whole, Ocellaris are more docile than Percula.

 

[Pastey]

So we've officially concluded that mileage varies.

 

[Savoie83]

Not a snowflake for sure.

 

[SOCOMMike]

In my experience, any clownfish has the capability to be aggressive. I've seen them intimidate many fish much larger than themselves -- especially if they are a pair that breeds. Back to the topic at hand; forgive me if I'm wrong, but just because when you bought the fish, it is bigger than the other one, it doesn't automatically make it female. The fish that becomes the dominant one will eventually become female, but I believe that until dominance has been established, they remain in a hermaphroditic state. Don't quote me on that however. But, I think that it is very likely that your smaller one will eventually become female and grow larger than the other.

 

[Ludecrasher]

Learned a lot from this topic, the fact that I don't have a snowflake and that there's such thing of a Fancy White! Thanks everyone. As of last night for the first time the Picasso started being more aggressive toward the Fancy. Switch of the guard. Really fun to watch and see who will win!