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Aggressive Tomato clownfish. Help!


adickt

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Hey guys, I have a RSM 130d. Fish stocking is Tomato clown fish, and a blue damsel. I tried to add a boicolour dottyback, it died in a day because of attack from existing fish. What other fish I can now add ?!!!!! Help PLS!

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I feel your pain. Clownfish are naturally territorial. I have a Yellow Tail Damsel that ran my tank until I added a decent sized Clownfish. Now his life is spent running away from the Clownfish. I added a Cleaner Shrimp and he settled the Clown Down somewhat or at least occupied his time. It's not a hosting thing but the Clown seems to like the attention the Cleaner shows him. My guess is your Clown does not have an anemone or coral that hosts him. You might also try small Blue/Green Chromis that clearly shoal together at the LFS. When I did that everything became balanced. The Clown still feels he runs the tank but there is not constant harrassement going on. The Skunk Cleaner really did the most good to "calm" the Clown for me. The shrimp is also very social.

 

My Clown really is a jerk. I put three snails in and he promply went down to the bottom and buried them in sand with his tail. After that he ignored them after asserting himself. Its got to be a territorial thing.

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Clownfish will often host in xenia. I you make a xenia island away from the main rocks so they don't become invasive, hosting in the xenia will occupy the clown.

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Tomatoes are one of, if not THE most aggressive clowns IME. You could easily get it to host just about anything, but that does not guarantee it won't still overstep it's territory and annihilate anything new. With a tomato and yellow tail, you pretty much have an "aggressive" tank. I would consider the dottyback not surviving a blessing however. I don't like to see fish die, but if it DID survive, you would of had an even bigger asshole in the tank.

I add clowns first in tanks a lot, but with maroons, tomatoes, clarkiis, and the hybrids of those species I usually add them last. Damsels in general are aggressive, highly territorial fish. I've been bit by damsels more than any other fish.

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my clown hosts in a torch coral, but still super aggressive. So I guess I ll have to accpet the fact that I can not add any more fish to my 30g tank. I wonder will it still be ok to add one or two cleaner shrimps now? Thanks

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CatfishSoupFTW

a clown killing a dottyback? intense. from my general knowledge, a damsel would be most aggressive, then the dottyback, then the clown. My dottyback schools with my 2 clowns. lol , but last time i put a goby in there, and well.. he went all terminator, hunter mode. it was intense.

 

but , apparently tomato clowns are hardcore.^ hella surprised. usually if you add the aggressive fish last, it knows others had turf for the most part.

 

as for shrimp, are damsels okay with shrimp? My dotty back didnt like the shrimp either. so that ended that.

 

We are basically on the same boat. ( i have a similar tank size) lol Oh, i do have a fairly large jawfish that is completely safe. he has his own cave and does his thing. As a final fish, I was thinking along the lines of a cardinal of some sort. maybe try that?

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