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Post by hmotorsol on Oct 13, 2009 17:07:35 GMT -5
My 2 occillerous clowns are become territorial around my frogspawn they wont let anything around it. Is this a good thing or bad thing i was looking and didn't see anything that looked like eggs.
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Post by cdeboard on Oct 13, 2009 17:16:40 GMT -5
They are just hosting it. No biggie. Maybe get em a nem if you arent afraid of it hurting your coral
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Post by daviddelp09 on Oct 16, 2009 19:21:06 GMT -5
how do you know when clowns are trying to breed? what do they do or how does their sex look?? lol i have 2 and there always extremly close an always swiming retarded up against each other and actin like their having a seizure. how do you tell male from female? maybe there just gay lol
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Post by hmotorsol on Oct 16, 2009 22:48:22 GMT -5
the females are bigger than the males and are the dominate ones.
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Post by daviddelp09 on Oct 17, 2009 9:09:24 GMT -5
hmm well they are the same size but acting really funny
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Post by boggs32 on Oct 17, 2009 9:36:57 GMT -5
they could be in the determining phase... basically what's going to happen if they are the same size, is one will turn female since they are all born male. Or, the second option, which would suck, is one will kill the other. That's why it's always important to try to find two clowns that are different sizes, or both really small. I would probably just wait it out, especially if they swim together frequently and appear to be hosting.
As for who's more aggressive... it really depends on the species and the pair. Most of the pairs I have had, the female is much more aggressive, especially when protecting the nest. Normally, the male just hangs out near the nesting (or hosting spot) and the female swims around the tank, returning every once in a while to check on the male and make sure he's doing a good job. With my cinnamin clowns, the female would literally pounce anything that got as close as a foot away from the host spot. This was in a predator reef tank and even my lion fish was afraid of her.
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Post by dreminon on Oct 17, 2009 18:10:28 GMT -5
they could be in the determining phase... basically what's going to happen if they are the same size, is one will turn female since they are all born male. Or, the second option, which would suck, is one will kill the other. That's why it's always important to try to find two clowns that are different sizes, or both really small. I would probably just wait it out, especially if they swim together frequently and appear to be hosting. As for who's more aggressive... it really depends on the species and the pair. Most of the pairs I have had, the female is much more aggressive, especially when protecting the nest. Normally, the male just hangs out near the nesting (or hosting spot) and the female swims around the tank, returning every once in a while to check on the male and make sure he's doing a good job. +1 very well put
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Post by daviddelp09 on Oct 19, 2009 22:07:28 GMT -5
hmm well, i learned something new lol
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