Do all clownfish behave weird when added to tank?

**BucketFish** · 09-11-2012, 1:02 PM

I just added a snowflake clownfish to my biocube. It has been acting rather peculiar, but this is my second clownfish and adding that one was odd, too...

For the past week I have watch

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**BucketFish** · 09-11-2012, 1:09 PM

#For the past week I have watched it spend most of its day near the fiter, staring at it self swimming up, down, up, down. It eats, moves around, seems very healthy...still doesn't seem interested in the BEAUTIFUL REEF I built for it

would an anemone help. I have xenia and flowerpot coral I have caught it playing in once...mostly it stares at the wall and goes up and down. He spooks the firefish and gramma anytime he comes around lol! So are clownfish just weirdos when adapting or did I get a real clown?!?!

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**XanAvaloni** · 09-11-2012, 1:28 PM

sounds like pretty much normal clown behavior to me. I have two and they both act that way, most of the time. Mine are just plain ol' regular clowns though, you specify yours is a "snowflake" and I have no idea how those were developed or if breeding for weird color patterns would affect anything else in their behavior or health.

and as far as "admiring your reef"....it's just home to them. If fish have ancestral memories it is like asking them to move from the Taj Mahal of the open ocean into a single-wide trailer (your tank.) Our little boxes of water are impressive to us, but to them?

best of luck with your tank and fish. Pix are always nice.

**BucketFish** · 09-11-2012, 1:54 PM

Oh snowflakes are what Petco were calling them. I believe it's an ORA variety of somesort--I'm guessing its the great big white splotch on its side, there is also a semi-picasso and naked picasso clown, very similar I think.

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