Clown Fish Aggression

[brendan1495]

Hi

Bought 2 tank bred percula clownfish about 6 weeks ago
for the first 4 weeks they were fine but for the last 2 weeks
the larger of the 2 keeeps attacking the smaller one all the time.
Is this normal behaviour.

Thought about adding another to draw attention from the one
that's getting picked on, is this a good idea? or would you leave it to
sort itself out.

My tank is a 25 gallon nano with 20 KG Live rock a few inverts and
1 small blue with yellow tail damsel all my water parameters are bob on.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks a lot

Brendan

 

[HN1]

Sounds like normal clown / damsel behavior to me. I wouldn't add another or things will get much worse. The larger should be the female and be dominant pretty much as you described.

 

[mr_X]

leave it alone. one will become the female and one the male, or they will kill each other. there is nothing you can do to stop them. adding a third will only leave another fish carcass on the sand bed.

 

[brendan1495]

Thanks for the quick reply wont get anymore

Cheers

Brendan