NEMO'S getting picked on

[who dey]

my coral beauty rubbed her eye on a rock and got popeye, I cured it by feeding food dosed w/garlic for 3 days. Since the garlic additive my one nemo (obviously the female) has really been picking on the other nemo i have. They are 2 months old in my tank and have gotten along pretty well until the garlic. It's gotten so bad that the one tries to hide as much as he can. What's the deal??? I stopped dosing the food.

 

[pontius]

is the one you say is a female larger than the other? some amount of aggression is perfectly normal in clownfish pairs. I can say with a good degree of certainty that the garlic had nothing to do with it.

 

[who dey]

yes, the female is about twice his size, they were about the same when i got them. I know they usually pick - eachother but this doesn't seem like normal behavior. Could the female be wanting to mate??

 

[dragonfli]

I hate it when the men dont "want it" as bad as the women do. but if she were twice my size id be hidin too

 

[dragonfli]

sorry bout that it was left way too open.:nervous:

 

[who dey]

i'd hide as well, good one

i just don't want the male to get stressed for not wanting to getttiton with the fatty!!!

 

[dragonfli]

dont blame him. let that time of the month pass and hope fully they can go back to being "just friends!?"
mine did that too but it would only last a bit then calm down for a month and litlerally start up again......now im not saying or getting started on the do female fish????????????
im just stating what happened in my system.

 

[who dey]

the B$%ch still hasn't backed off!!!

 

[dragonfli]

find their (or hers i guess) territory and rearrange it a bit to try to disorient her so that she might at least get less territorial.?
not sure if it is that easy to rearrange your tank but it helped mine...that was 2nd to last resort.
last resort IMO id take her into the QT for a week or two and let him get his "balls," or "manhood" back and then one night with the rocks rearranged a bit toss her back in?
might just do it but hey once a B!-#% always a B!-$ i learned that the hard way once...but personal lives asside this might work.
(but im luckily happily married now!!!!!

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[trainfever]

Yea, happily married until his wife finds this thread.

 

[dragonfli]

guess id better unsubscribe before she just happens onto it