What to do with aggressive clownfish

[jharding08]

I have an aggressive misbar ocellaris clownfish that I had to separate from my display because he was consistently terrorizing the 4 Bartlett anthias that I introduced.

I am trying to decide what to do with him. Can I reintroduce him to the display in a couple days? Or I have a Frag tank that has two black and white ocellaris in it. Would he pick on them? He is bigger than them. Or should I try to see if the LFS can take him?

 

[snorvich]

I have an aggressive misbar ocellaris clownfish that I had to separate from my display because he was consistently terrorizing the 4 Bartlett anthias that I introduced.

I am trying to decide what to do with him. Can I reintroduce him to the display in a couple days? Or I have a Frag tank that has two black and white ocellaris in it. Would he pick on them? He is bigger than them. Or should I try to see if the LFS can take him?

Give him to the LFS.

 

[scooter31707]

+1 ^^^. It's not going to get any better.

 

[SecretiveFish]

We have a naked clownfish that is quite aggressive. She was beating up everyone in a 65g aquarium and was beating up my big platygyra. Nothing we did made it any better.

She is now in a 5.6g Fluval right now because there is no where else to put her... The cleaner shrimp keeps her in line in there. She will be moved to a 16g and be the only fish once it is cycled and if she becomes a problem in there back to the LFS.

 

[d-man]

Similar to damsels, clowns almost always become D-bags when they get bigger, especially if they are a pair.
As stated above, get rid of him

 

[CoralsAddiction]

How long has it been since you added the anthias? I would not get rid of the clown. Barletts are fairly aggressive and soon they'll be bossing everyone around.

 

[jharding08]

I put the clownfish in with the two black and white ocellaris in the frag tank. They seem to be getting along. No harassment to speak of yet.

The anthias have been in the display since Saturday. They are staying in a tight group with sporadic visits from the largest chromis (not friendly), but it looks like the flame angel is trying to protect them by warding off the chromis. Hopefully the anthias will start to get their attitude soon.