Clownfish Fighting

I have a pair of black and white clowns. I was just watching my clowns fight. It started with the male doing some crazy twitching and either nipping or poking at the female which made her go on her side, they got over it and swam away from each other. Then the female went and did this to the male and even more twitching and poking/nipping was going on. They both just got over a ton of scratches and are both doing much better, so i'm not sure if them felling better is making them more fiesty towards one another? Or if this is a sign of mating. They are the only ones in the tank, and i bought them as an established pair, and did't notice any real fighting going on before, except for a few pokes, so this is the most that i've seen them fight.

 

Sometimes an established pair will fight a little, just like a married couple, so they keep the pecking order in place.

 

haha makes sense, maybe their saying it's time to add another fish and are getting tired of being stuck with each other, lol i wish the wallet would let me get another fishy

 

Yeah, I hear ya. My wallet's a little restricting at the time also. Just keep an eye on the clowns and if the fighting starts to get out of hand then maybe some other form of action might be needed.

 

yup money issues does suck. OK, i hope the fighting is just a freak thing, as i have no other tank to put them in if they continue to get out of hand

 

My wallet is restricted too. I only have a clown and firefish. They are kind of lonely..

 

haha lol that's like my tank, except for two clowns, i don't even have clean up crew in there yet. But i might get my first coral this weekend as a frag of zoas and stuff like that is only $5

 

my paired black clown do the same thing! they twitch and nip at each other. I thought it was bad at first but i think its just a way of playing! I have an engineer goby in the tank with them and they dont bother each other at all> so maybe consider this fish.

 

they are just going at it tonight, i hope they stop lol, they also seem to be eating at the air bubbles lol kind of funny

 

the clowns are not fighting today, i'm hoping they have gotten over all their fighting from yesterday, as it was starting to get pretty bad in there