Aggressive Clowns

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bocastork

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Over the past two weeks I had lost a few fish (sixline wrasse, yellow-eyed tang). I tested my water - everything was fine - so I replaced them. Came in tonight and found my new purple firefish in the mouth of one of my clown fish. Looks like the clowns have been the killers.

Any suggestions on what fish will get along with the clowns? I have a coral beauty, a neon goby, a midas blenny, and a royal gramma and they seem to be getting along fine - I would like to replace the purple firefish, but with something that will last for more than 2 days.
 

clown-lover

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Wow thats strange.. What kind of clowns.. A normal Amphiprion ocellaris or Amphiprion Percula did that or some other type??
 

FeatherDuster

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Wow, I have never heard of clowns demonstrating that type of behavior. Some species can be aggressive, but usually not the point of actually killing all types of fish and trying to eat them. I would also like to know what species you have. Maybe consider trading in the clowns for a different pair?
 

RPetty

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i had a pretty rowdy tomato clown that would beat up my damsels... but it never killed anything.
 

Pufferpunk

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I put a maroon clown in with my extremely aggressive puffers & 2 of the puffer's tails were stubs within a week. Traded it in for a tomatoe clown.
 

clown-lover

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Wow I had a true and false perc and they were the best of friends. I've never seen any aggressive behavior out of Lenny except when he was wanting squiggy to submit to her dominance and chasing others away from her colt coral.. But nothing like that.
 

Snoogans

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My clown killed his buddy and now attacks me whenever I place a hand in the tank. Angry little buggers
 
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