how worried should i be that one might kill the other? there is some aggression, and ones fins are a little scraped, but nothing big. the aggression seems to be one sided, but they always stay close together. is there anything that i can do to keep the aggression to a minimum? they are still small, maybe 1.5 inches., and they are in my 10 gallon QT
maroon clowns
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mine went after one another, both about 3inches though, when i got them... I took one back 18hrs later when the store opened and searcehd that day to get a smaller fish... in hope that it wasn't sexed yet and the female, three inch one, wouldn't attack it. They fought so i kept the lights off... the smaller fish wasn't afraid he would float right infront of the others face, i was very nervous... it took part of the dorsal fin off of the little one, just like it did of the biggerone the day before. After 24hrs I decided I couldn't worry about it anymore and I was goign to sell them both back and wait till I found a mated pair or something but the lfs i got them from was closed so i went to a super crappy one that i was never at before and they said they'd give me liike $15 and i laughed and walked away and put them back in my tank.. ever since then they have been really good to eachother... hopefullly mated. I went back to teh lfs i got took the fish back too and he said it died a few days after I brought it back.... which sucks, and i think they hate me now..
You know, I wanted a maroon clown for the tank I'm starting, but after reading a bit, I've decided to get black and white clownfish. They seem less aggressive from the little I've read. 
well... theres not really much you can do since they are in the 10gallon QT tank, maybe buy a glass divider for it, but it wont do that much...they'll have to get use to eachother... once in a bigger tank they can be futher away and it might be quicker? I'm not too sure, it happened by chance with me.
mine female always move the sand with her tail and picks it up in her mouth... flots really high then spit it out. I read they do this to try and intimitate people... also that that means they are from the ocean.(i'm pretty sure) it would make sense she does it when people come to look at the glass.
My clarkii moves the sand just with her tail. I was wondering why she does that? but she does it when I am not looking.
sometimes they both do it when i'm not looking, more often they do it by where i am looking at the tank though. They could be trying to make a nest for mating? I'm undecided which my clowns are doing.
My ocellaris dig a lot around their nests. Very enthusiastically, so that there's debris sitting on corals halfway up the tank.
It's kind of weird, though, because they only dig in one spot, but have several places they like to lay eggs.
It's kind of weird, though, because they only dig in one spot, but have several places they like to lay eggs.