Clowns mating???

[Jax0311]

I have a bonded pair of misbar clowns. All of a sudden today ALL the fish in my tank (135 gal) started cleaning the same Rock everytime they swam past including the clowns. Earlier tonight my clowns started doing what I think is like their mating dance?? I looked up mating behavior and it seems pretty spot on with what mine are doing. Both are doing their seizure thing. I noticed my male has been getting darker over the last several days. Im going to get a breeder tank in the morning, however I'm not sure if I should move them and the rock they are all cleaning into the breeder tank or if I should hold off and see if they lay eggs and then move them. They are in the tank with a powder blue tang a tomini tang a yellow tang a snowflake eel a chocolate chip starfish a couple watchmen gobies an ebili Angel a bicolor angel and a foxface and I'm worried that someone may eat the eggs.

 

[bang guy]

Clownfish viciously protect their eggs, even against the larger fish. Nobody will be eating the healthy eggs. I mention "healthy" eggs because the Clownfish themselves will eat any eggs that are not 100% healthy. For first time spawners they may eat all of them because they may not get fertilized properly.

The female will get really fat before laying eggs so if she's looking normal then it could just be her exerting her dominance over the male. She has to do this often to prevent him from becoming female.

 

[bang guy]

Here's a picture of one of my clownfish ready to spawn to give an idea of how big the female's belly gets.