Dealing with aggressive clown fish.. Will solitary confinement work?

[dmatt88]

Sasquatch started it. Haha.

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[sasquatch]

I ain't did nothin and the evil eye of sauron is unblinking

 

[dmatt88]

See! He's doing it again.

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[sasquatch]

stop it

 

[dmatt88]

Oh great I've been hit with the evil eye. After 40 years on this earth I felt I was safe. Nope.

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[Stretch]

At least it was the evil eye and not the dreaded "stink eye"...

 

[dmatt88]

Haha. I'm still thinking about the roofing guy advertising. Let's have some fun with that next.

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[JGard911]

UPDATE

The big black clowfish hasn't figured out that "Nemo" is supposed to be the star of the tank and that I don't like it when he keeps him confined to a cave in the rock formation. So the "bully" is headed back to the LFS today.

Lesson learned: Once a bully, always a bully. Solitary confinement doesn't work. :updown:

Hope he gets adopted by "Darla" from "Nemo" and realizes how good he had it in my tank.

 

[jedi82knight]

Seperating the pair of black ocellaris, for that long, could open a whole new can of problems. Keep your pairs together if you want them to remain paired.

 

[jedi82knight]

UPDATE

The big black clowfish hasn't figured out that "Nemo" is supposed to be the star of the tank and that I don't like it when he keeps him confined to a cave in the rock formation. So the "bully" is headed back to the LFS today.

Lesson learned: Once a bully, always a bully. Solitary confinement doesn't work. :updown:

Hope he gets adopted by "Darla" from "Nemo" and realizes how good he had it in my tank.

Whoops, didntnotice the second page before I posted. Are the black clowns still together or has he (the smaller one) been accepted by the orange pair?

 

[Clownfishfan]

Sorry to break the news but Darla lives in Australia...

 

[JGard911]

Are the black clowns still together or has he (the smaller one) been accepted by the orange pair?

Jedi

My first attempt, I took both black clowns out of the DT for about a month. I put the smaller black clown back in first, and he seemed to get along. When I put the bigger black clown back in, they both started bullying the orange clowns again.

I just got the bigger black clown out last night. The smaller black clown is still trying to be a bully, but the two orange clowns are now sticking up for themselves and fighting back and swimming more freely around the tank.

I am taking the bigger black clown back to the LFS today. My plan is to leave the smaller black clown on his own for a while. I hope that if the pecking order shifts back to the orange clowns favor, then I may try and re-introduce a "mate" for the black clown at a later date. I hope a 2nd black clown, the same size or smaller than the orange clowns will work out. But I think that is a risky proposition also.

 

[sasquatch]

you can teach an old dog new tricks but if you cut your fingers off in the hen house the chickens will eat them