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My damselfish started to defend its territory under the rock and I saw people say it could harm others fish, but mine seems to be just nibbing the female clownfish. Was it safe?

Copperband attempt… again.

A few days ago I bought a Copperband Butterflyfish, a fish I’ve always loved but never had long-term success with. Either they stop eating or slowly fade away.

At the store he was already eating brine shrimp, which gave me some confidence.

Right now he’s in an acclimation box inside my display so he can observe the tank before release.

My biggest concern besides feeding is aggression from my tangs:

• Purple Tang

• Blue Eye Bristletooth Tang

I’ve been researching the clam on the half shell method for feeding and also the mirror trick to distract the tangs when I release him.

Let’s see how this one goes. I’ll document the journey.

Anyone here successfully kept a Copperband long term?

Is this safe? Hugging each other? Holding hands together? or stinging each other 😅?

One time we had a puffer fish but we sold him and the video is the reasen hé eat all of my corals.

Sad day. My peppermint shrimp started going after my torch coral last night and It is not looking so good. Used the bottle trap to get the shrimp back to LFS. Once they taste torch it’s really hard to get them to stop. Big mistake is I added Torch coral after the shrimp.

I just witnessed either the snail or this coral seemingly shoot water at a 90 degree angle out at a fish. Does anyone know if it’s possible from either of these two things?

I'm scrambling because I was not prepared for this.. Came home from work to my clownfish not getting along, to say the least.

Over the last few days, the dominant clown had started chasing the smaller a bit more than usual. Today, I came home, and it was chasing the other while trying to nip at it. It got to the point where I felt I had to intervene.

Was only able to capture the stressed clown because he was hiding next to the nozzle of the return pump, right at the surface trying to catch his breath. I didn't know clownfish could swim so fast in such a precise manner and not hit any rocks head on in their 20g cube.

Now that I got the smaller and my favorite clown into the mesh basket, I tried to figure out what I should do.

A dark omen? A sign of distress? Natural but rarely seen behavior? Or did my emerald crab just replace me as man of the house while simultaneously starting a clownfish riot?

My mind is blown.. I don't know what to think. This hobby is full of surprises, though.

Any insight?

Uronema or Bump Injury or Other?

I’ve had a trio of Chromis for 3 months now, all eat well, swim together, but sometimes chase and nip at one another. In addition they have a habit of backing into holes where my royal gramma hangs out, where they will swiftly be chased away.

A red dot with a white center has appeared on one of their tails, that appears to be more pronounced on its left side but still visible on the right.

Is this early onset Uronema, a bite / bump injury, or something else?

Anyone deal with a clownfish bites before?

I got a cleaner shrimp and want my hand cleaned but since I took my glove off the big girl Helga has been very aggressive and even chased my hand away! Haven’t been bit yet, but how bad is the bite?

They never try this with my thick gloves, but as soon as it’s off they try nipping haha

Does anyone know how to get my what I think is a neon body back to stop attacking my skunk cleaner shrimp I cannot get a cage right now for like to separate them I have tried building a rock structure he has slowly started doing it less and less he notices when I come up to the tank he stops but I don't know how to get him to stop

Anyone have any advice for clownfish asserting dominace over the other. The smaller one is constantly running away and even hitting the objects in the tank, should I just leave them or separate? This is the smaller one after the fight..