Re: Acclimation failure

Hahahaha
I want to reply with so much here but I will hold my tongue.
Oooh that is so hard :)

TheRock wrote:
Typical female !!! : )

"Wayne Sallee" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44294B9A.2010702@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

They are all males when young. So if you have a big one by itself, you can add a young one.

I once had a situation where I had a large female clarky, and a male. They were paired up nicely. I then added a smaller male. The existing mail did not like the smaller male, and chased it a lot. The female was not so much against the smaller male, and the more the existing mail chased the smaller male, the more the female liked the smaller male. Eventually the female killed the existing male, and pared up with the smaller male.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
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TheRock wrote on 3/27/2006 10:16 PM:

I've also read that once a clown changes sex
and you drop another one in there,
you're taking a chance that they can be the same sex.

2 females or 2 males will view eachother as rivals.


"Wayne Sallee" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:442899A7.9050005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It was not one of the siblings. The other one being bigger, had a real advantage. And often being real tiny can have it's advantages, as they are not looked at, as competition.

It is often a complicated set of factors that will deturmine how fish will behave with each other.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets
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Don Geddis wrote on 3/27/2006 5:28 PM:


But why would juvenile tank-raised ocellaris clowns attack one of their own?
They're one of the most friendly fish around, and form large family groups.


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