Gold Stripe Maroon Clown

[Rachelle V]

Why is my maroon clown eating my LPS????? She started this a couple days ago. She rips off the pieces of my frogspawn and hammer coral and spits it out!!! I had to put my frogspawn in a acrylic container and will soon be covering my hammer. When I get back from thanksgiving, she HAS to go. I've never heard of clowns picking on corals. Is this common? Can I get different clown and have better luck? Thanks for the input.

Rachelle

[twincitiesreefer]

maroons are by far the biggest PITA.They are very aggrsive teritorial,And yes they will nip.

Id try percs,or my fav is my pink skunk clow

[clownnut]

yeah. sometime clown will bite off tips of the anemone. she/he must mistake the frogspawn as anemone.

[RaysReef]

maroons are by far the worst of the bunch...I got rid of mine because of the same issue, mine was the white band, not the gold

[Rachelle V]

She was behaving so well up until this past weekend. I'm going crazy because she's making my LPS look. Her anemone looks beat too.

[RaysReef]

I wonder if she is ready to breed!?! Slap that tailfin...

[Rachelle V]

Do fish still want to breed even if there is no mate? (might be a dumb question but I have no clue) She goes to the bottom and shakes her tail in the sand a lot.

[RaysReef]

if she is scratching herself against the LR...u might have an Ich issue *early stage*. But just waving her tail at the sand...probably bored, dunno..maybe needs a soul mate

[Rachelle V]

No, she's not itching. She just sort of waves it about 2 inches away from the sand.