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11-27-2007, 06:57 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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   |  clown eating colt coral
My clown has started taking bite sized chuncks out of my colt coral. Is this normal or just bad behavior. _________ 
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11-27-2007, 07:22 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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It is very interesting for some reason from time to time our male perc will pick at some of our leathers.... _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
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11-27-2007, 08:59 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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you sure its not eating something on the coral and taking part of the coral with it? _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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11-27-2007, 10:41 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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By amcarrig
It hasn't closed up on them yet so I suppose they don't irritate it too much. That being said, however, the only things that I don't like is that the clowns go into the clam through its inhalent (as you can see in the picture) and may be damaging the clam's gills. Also, when a clown fish wants it's "anemone" to move, they will nip at the "amemone's" base/foot to compel it to move. Soooo, the female will, from time to time, nip at the clam's mantle which doesn't seem to bother the clam as much as it bothers me. | I hope it helps...
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11-28-2007, 12:41 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: California
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i've seen this behavior a couple times. Its rare, but it happens sometimes. btw, does your clown have an anemone | |
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11-28-2007, 05:11 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
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Originally Posted by Camilsky  I hope it helps...
Cheers! | Give that lady a cigar.. Thats the nature of the beat.. It want to host in that colt as an anemone and wants to make it move.. I have seen them rip tentacles from anemones to make them move.. and kill corals I have had my elegance about killed by a pair of the SOB's. Did i mention I hate clowns and if I could catch these two I'd love to flush them.. Trap smat little ^&*^%$$%^&**** _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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11-28-2007, 05:17 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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11-28-2007, 01:58 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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I don,t have a anenome,m clown is just shifting between some large hairy mushys and the colt coral. One thing that has changed is that I have just introduced a blue hippo tang to the tank and he keeps swimming through the colt coral and resting in it ( but thats another story any one know about that, is it normal.) | |
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11-28-2007, 02:01 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Ahh, another that makes saltwater tanks cooler than most FW tanks........Fish personaloties and behaviors, not always instinct. | |
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11-28-2007, 02:18 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Originally Posted by wastemanagement I don,t have a anenome,m clown is just shifting between some large hairy mushys and the colt coral. One thing that has changed is that I have just introduced a blue hippo tang to the tank and he keeps swimming through the colt coral and resting in it ( but thats another story any one know about that, is it normal.) | It doesn't matter if your clown has an anemone or not. If it's nesting in your coral, it will consider that coral an anemone and behave the same way that it would if it really was an anemone, including nipping at its host to try to entice it to move to "safer" territory.
Hippo tangs tend to "lay down" when they're resting and they will prop themselves against anything in the tank, including rock and coral to do so. | |
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