cowardly clown

[colourmop]

i have a pair of F.perc with an anemone as their home. both boy and girl clowns are doing fine until my banded goby+pistol shrimp dug another entrance for their hole under the anemone. both clowns went to check the hole, and i noticed the goby trying to bite them as he protecting the entrance.
after i got home 4 hours later, i noticed the boy clown looks very depressed and swim in a corner with dull eyes(no scar or anything abnormal), while the female still doing her stuffs with the anemone.
just wondering, is my male clownfish lost the fight with that goby and scared to get close to the cave? or they will get to use each other soon? (the boy clown always look emo and sad, but still eat like a pig)

 

[rykna]

I have a pair of false percs too! I would move the anemone rock and all(if thats and option. You could also put a rock over the hole to discurage the goby from bothering the clowns. My male is very timid too. By rearanging your aquarium a bit, new territories will have to be formed. I would also add some stress coat for the male.

 

[colourmop]

heh okie! i dont think i can move my anemone rock because somehow he pick the biggest 2 rock and attached between a gap :x but im gonna try to fill up that hole of goby's tomorrow, cant wait to see the goby's face >

 

[rykna]

Good luck!!!

 

[colourmop]

lol i filled that hole with 2 snail shells and a hand full of fine sand!! the goby and shrimp poke their head out from the old hole and trying to figure out what just happened! i bet they are mad at me

 

[rykna]

Good! How are the clowns doing?? Mine are finally starting to forgive me for moving their house.
In order to find the 1 inch sailfin tang I just got, started to take LR out. The first piece I had to move was the daisy gonapora that my pair of false perc host. My clowns will be mad at me for days. I have got to get a camcordor. Chloe was having a meltdown! I had to move the daisy gonapora that they host to remove more rock to search for the little guy. Chloe kept swimming frantically around my hands as I moved the gonapora. Nemo stood on the side lines watching anxiously. Chloe nipped me a couple of times.... to say LET GO OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!! The next scene was heart breaking......after I repositioned the daisy, I looked over to see if the home owners had followed.....Chloe and Nemo were huddle close together hovering over the spot where their house had been. They were flicking there fins anxiously, and they kept bobbing there heads at each other. Chloe keep plucking at the bare rock in hopes to find the house. Between pluckings she would turn towards Nemo and shiver and go back to searching. Finally I stuck my hand back in(Chloe is used to being hand fed so she readily follows my hand) and tried to get Chloe's attention. She mad a mad dash for my hand, I'm sure she intended to give me what for, but I had been hoping for this, and I moved my hand right over the daisy. Chloe stopped emediatley, and did what I would call the clown fish dance of joy!!!!!! The couple spent the next hour rubbing and reuniting with their house. It was so cute.
This morning I had to ajust a coral that had toppled over. Chloe came streaking over and nipped me hard several times! Then she zipped back to the house and hovered over the daisy in a defense posture. I guess I be sleeping in the dog house for the next week!