italiababe4
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- May 7, 2014
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Hi. I am new to saltwater fish tanks so please forgive me for my knowledge. It's a hobby of my boyfriends and I'm still in the learning process. Here is the dilemna...
Our tank is a 14 gal biocube. We first bought our black ocellaris. He/she has adjusted well in our tank. After 2 weeks we decided we wanted to add a second clown to our tank in which we added a orange ocellaris. Both similar in size but our black clown is noticibly slightly bigger than our orange clown. We have had the 2 clowns for about a month without a problem. They stayed close by each other and acted fine. Tonight we noticed intense fighting egged on by out black clown and will not leave our orange clown alone. Our orange clown is now in the corner of the tank and the black one is tormenting it. The orange one is NOT backing down as I have read that males will be submissive. BOTH are twitching which is not a topic I have been able to find. They only stop fighting with the lights off. But my orange clown will not come out and the black clown is just hovering below. They just began to also stick their faces out of the water and bob up and down. My worry is I have 2 females and one is going to die. Please can someone help explain this? As I said my knowledge is very minimal and I have tried to attach a photo of our two clowns so you can see them. Please help.
Our tank is a 14 gal biocube. We first bought our black ocellaris. He/she has adjusted well in our tank. After 2 weeks we decided we wanted to add a second clown to our tank in which we added a orange ocellaris. Both similar in size but our black clown is noticibly slightly bigger than our orange clown. We have had the 2 clowns for about a month without a problem. They stayed close by each other and acted fine. Tonight we noticed intense fighting egged on by out black clown and will not leave our orange clown alone. Our orange clown is now in the corner of the tank and the black one is tormenting it. The orange one is NOT backing down as I have read that males will be submissive. BOTH are twitching which is not a topic I have been able to find. They only stop fighting with the lights off. But my orange clown will not come out and the black clown is just hovering below. They just began to also stick their faces out of the water and bob up and down. My worry is I have 2 females and one is going to die. Please can someone help explain this? As I said my knowledge is very minimal and I have tried to attach a photo of our two clowns so you can see them. Please help.