somethings wrong w/ my fish...

dailydriven911 · 07/04/2006, 06:16 PM

My maroon clown is suddenly acting very weird. It will suck the ends and sometimes attack and bite the polyps of my flowerpot coral. I also noticed one of the arms is gone off my coral banded shrimp. They coexisted for about a month w/o a problem now the clown is acting very strange and will sometimes bite the glass near the anenome. I have a green mandarin, false lemonpeel angel, yellow stripe maroon clown, coral banded shrimp, and a cleaner shrimp in a 25g tank I beleive it could be because the tank is small and they may need more space. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Salamander · 07/04/2006, 07:11 PM

Maroon clowns are known to be fairly aggressive and territorial even to people...and you have more fish than I have in my 55g. More space or less fish may help. How's that mandarin feeding. Had him long?

dailydriven911 · 07/04/2006, 08:31 PM

I've had the mandarin almost two months or so. He eats mysis shrimp as well as copepods. I'd like to do a hang on refugium but so far he's doing okay. I know there fairly aggresive fish but he's never done this before. I'll probably try and move the flowerpot to another location and see how he does.

kevensquint · 07/04/2006, 09:12 PM

My friends maroon killed his gonipora, they can use any wavy polyped coral as a host make shift anemone, and annoy it to death.

07/04/2006, 06:16 PM	#1
dailydriven911 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bonney Lake, WA Posts: 550	somethings wrong w/ my fish... My maroon clown is suddenly acting very weird. It will suck the ends and sometimes attack and bite the polyps of my flowerpot coral. I also noticed one of the arms is gone off my coral banded shrimp. They coexisted for about a month w/o a problem now the clown is acting very strange and will sometimes bite the glass near the anenome. I have a green mandarin, false lemonpeel angel, yellow stripe maroon clown, coral banded shrimp, and a cleaner shrimp in a 25g tank I beleive it could be because the tank is small and they may need more space. Any suggestions are appreciated. __________________ Red Sea Reefer 170, Kessil A360N w/ controller, MP10wes, RKL, BM Curve 5, Aquamaxx Reactors

07/04/2006, 07:11 PM	#2
Salamander Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Flagstaff, Arizona Posts: 2,103	Maroon clowns are known to be fairly aggressive and territorial even to people...and you have more fish than I have in my 55g. More space or less fish may help. How's that mandarin feeding. Had him long? __________________ I feel more like myself now than I did before. Current Tank Info: 120g mixed reef, 2 x 250W DE MH, 2 x 54w T5, MSX 200 SKimmer, 2 Koralia 4's, 40g fuge/sump, QT

07/04/2006, 08:31 PM	#3
dailydriven911 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bonney Lake, WA Posts: 550	I've had the mandarin almost two months or so. He eats mysis shrimp as well as copepods. I'd like to do a hang on refugium but so far he's doing okay. I know there fairly aggresive fish but he's never done this before. I'll probably try and move the flowerpot to another location and see how he does. __________________ Red Sea Reefer 170, Kessil A360N w/ controller, MP10wes, RKL, BM Curve 5, Aquamaxx Reactors

07/04/2006, 09:12 PM	#4
kevensquint Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: new york Posts: 2,277	My friends maroon killed his gonipora, they can use any wavy polyped coral as a host make shift anemone, and annoy it to death.