guys, for a while i had a fumanchu lionfish, a pair of cinnamon clowns, a coral beauty, and a blue spot goby in a 47gallon tank together. there was roughly 50lbs of live rock, plenty of hiding spots and lots of food to eat from brine, to bloodworms, to angel frozen diet to guppies, mini crabs, and ghost shrimp. everyone was doing GREAT until my blue spot goby died. he had lots of wounds and ironically, so did one of my clowns. the next week my coral beauty went under the same circumstances andnow my fumanchu is dead, again the one cinnamon has bodily wounds. now all that remains is the two cinnamon clowns. ive heard they can be a bit testy but to kill those three fish? a lionfish?! what are the chances? why would they be that aggresive. this really bums me out as my first sw tank has been wiped out by a clown. :-/ any help or advice?
vicious clown fish
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Weird, I have a maroon clow in my 55 gallon that is a bit of a prick but never to the point of killing another fish. Are you sure that there is not something in there that you do not know about? Maybe something came in on the liverock. Cinnamon clowns are ***holes but not enough to kill a fumanchu. This is weird. I do not know what to tell you. From past experience if I have very aggressive fish in a tank sometimes I will add A more aggresive fish to upset the applecart. For Ex. My maroon clown was beating up my engineer gobies so I added a lunare wrasse, the wrasse beat the liveing $hit out of the clown, but the clown was too worrried to save its own *** to pick on the gobies. The wrasse did not bother the gobies because they were bottom dwellers. I eventually moved the wrasse to a bigger tank because he grew to fast. The clown never picked on the engineer gobies again, and he still does not. I don't know any other way then that to solve your problem. Maybe stocking your tank with fish that occupie all levels of the aquarium.
Fu manchus are slow and awkward so it is highly possible. I have a pair of clarkii clowns who i have seen grab and carry 2 blennies and a gobie and stick them in there carpet anemone and will regularly bite me during maintenance. They get especially aggressive with things near there anemone.
It is also still possible though that something else did it but if the damage on the clown shows up the same time the other fish dies then blame the clown.
It is also still possible though that something else did it but if the damage on the clown shows up the same time the other fish dies then blame the clown.