Aggresive Clownfish

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  1. scott26

    scott26 Ritteri Anemone

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    I have two clowns in my take I think one is male and one is female the problem I am having is the female (larger one) is extreamly aggresive I have had her for about 1 year now and for some reason she wants to kill me I dont know what I can do about it everytime I put my hand in the tank she is charging me and will jump out of the water to get my hands its pretty crazy. Is there something I can do to tame it? maybe remove it from the main tank and its "partner" will that settle it down? Also I woke up this morning to my new Kenya tree missing an arm floating in the tank could a clown do this?

    Thanks,
    Scott
     
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  3. elweshomayor

    elweshomayor Giant Squid

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    Wtf? Lol she jumps out just to get you??
    My guess is either they are about to lay eggs and she is being over protective or she is on her period. Lol
     
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    NU-2reef Montipora Digitata

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  5. mcfarrow

    mcfarrow Skunk Shrimp

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    My female ocellaris abuses me too. The only thing she fears is the net. So netty sits in the sand when I clean the glass.
     
  6. kcbrad

    kcbrad Giant Squid

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    Lol that's funny.
     
  7. tronb24

    tronb24 Coral Banded Shrimp

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    My ocellaris became like this shortly after adding my BTA. Once she starting hosting it became uncool for me to put my hands in the tank.
     
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  9. scott26

    scott26 Ritteri Anemone

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    It is a 60 gallon tank and even with the net in the tank she is scared at first but will try to get around through the rocks the only thing that has worked so far is catching it at feeding time and then doing cleaning and then putting it back in.