Any way to make my clown be nice?

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scallywag14

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Jul 17, 2010
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My clown knife is a pain in his tank maits but he is just way to mean any thing that i can do to help and can any one ID it and tell me what he is worth $ he is 11" long thanks for your help.
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Looks like a Spotless CK. How long have you had it with it's tank mates? Did you raise them together? Did you raise it to that size? You can probably remove him out for a little while and then rearrange the decor.
 
My clown gets to be a pain every now and then when I rearrange the tank, if I do not provide some cover for him to hide. I would suggest trying to incorporate more natural habitat into the tank to put it at ease. I found some african bog-wood that can be kind of piled/organized to look like a underwater root system. Aesthetics aside, this provides a lot of hiding places for the fish to relax. Great looking CK by the way.
 
I should have started with all that info sorry i have had him 4m and he has been with his mates for 2m exept the TSN,GAR the wer 1st and i have tried hiding spots more plants,drift wood,and nothing and none of it works i even pu him in my 30g for 3weeks just put him back today and 15m later he is after the pacu,tsn, and aro. and the large drift wood in the first pic was laid on top of the rocks in the 3rd pic for a while.
what can i do?:confused:
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Sometimes not feeding live foods will tone down aggression. Also, pay more attention towards him, sometimes CK will get "mad" at the owner for staring at other fish, not itself.
 
Seems like you got some pretty hefty monsters on your hands there. It might be territorial disputes. You may need to upgrade to a bigger tank.
 
Iam building a 580g plywood tank before xmas so i can divide them up thanks for all of your help and i just got the ck off of live feeders when i put him in the tank by his self and i have watched him all day and he actualy seems to be beter so he might be ok hopefuly
 
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