Are clownfish playing or fighting how to tell the difference

sadly
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@sadly · 2 weeks ago

Are my clowns playing or fighting? What’s going on??

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They are fighting for sure

Deciding who the male will be

Really? They’ve been in there together for quite a while🤔

I think I can already see the size difference. The larger one will likely be the female cause she's already more dominant. The one with the orange face seems to be challenging the other. Source: I speak fish. 😜

Yeah the black ones much bigger and was already on the tank by themselves before the little guy was added!

I’ve never seen this before, out of all the clowns I’ve kept they never did this. I’m gonna guess aggression

I’ve had them separated for 2 days now just put the little guy in an acclimation box. He seemed to be the main aggressor

Territorial 😂 fighting for sure for that spot

I’m not sure, they’ve been doing it only when the light is off and anywhere in the tank? I’ve put one in a separation box cause the bigger ones find are getting torn up!

Yeah they definitely not getting along lol. It’ll pass soon enough

I’m worried the smaller one might cause the other to die! Since I separated them yesterday the bigger one has started to swim stronger in the box but we shall see

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