New Rabbitfish fin nipping?

gauma369 · 08/21/2009, 05:39 PM

Just bought a new foxfaced rabbitfish. Place him in the tank went to dinner and came back to my perc clown down in the cornor of the tank swimming weird. On closer look I see the caudal fin (the most rear fin) has bin nipped. Now I have a maroon clown that sometimes acts aggressice to the perc clowns but I have never seen him totally fin nip this bad. Do you think it is the rabbitfish or the maroon. So far I watched for like 20 min since dinner and havent seen much.

gauma369 · 08/21/2009, 05:49 PM

well after watching a bit I see now its the maroon clown...what could have sparked such aggression when they have been together almost 2 yrs or more without bad fights? how can I help the perc clown? Place in QT tank and hope he makes it he is over 3 and half yrs hope he makes it. Should I place the other Perc clown in qt with the bad injured one? They are normally never apart from each other. The smaller one is the one injured the bigger one looks ok but I did see the Maroon rush him acouple times.

08/21/2009, 05:39 PM	#1
gauma369 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: PA Posts: 177	New Rabbitfish fin nipping? Just bought a new foxfaced rabbitfish. Place him in the tank went to dinner and came back to my perc clown down in the cornor of the tank swimming weird. On closer look I see the caudal fin (the most rear fin) has bin nipped. Now I have a maroon clown that sometimes acts aggressice to the perc clowns but I have never seen him totally fin nip this bad. Do you think it is the rabbitfish or the maroon. So far I watched for like 20 min since dinner and havent seen much.

08/21/2009, 05:49 PM	#2
gauma369 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: PA Posts: 177	well after watching a bit I see now its the maroon clown...what could have sparked such aggression when they have been together almost 2 yrs or more without bad fights? how can I help the perc clown? Place in QT tank and hope he makes it he is over 3 and half yrs hope he makes it. Should I place the other Perc clown in qt with the bad injured one? They are normally never apart from each other. The smaller one is the one injured the bigger one looks ok but I did see the Maroon rush him acouple times.