Yellow-striped Maroon

[No Worries1979]

I have a yellow-striped maroon that thinks he's the boss of the tank. He tries to intimidate everyone from my picasso (who is 2 inches bigger), my yellow tang and others. He even taps at my hand when I am doing the usual cleaning. My wife says he has stripe envy. He is very dark, almost black and his tail stripe doesn't go around his body, it's almost a spot.

Is this normal for maroons? What temperment does yours have? We thought our cinnamon clown was aggressive. Any comments are welcome.

[Raibaru]

Sounds normal to me. I don't have a maroon because I don't much care for their female shape/color and their temperment is apparently the most aggressive of all clownfish.

[GSMguy]

get the picasso out the maroon will kill it

and if you have other clowns in there like a cinamon get those out too

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9774131#post9774131 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by No Worries1979
I have a yellow-striped maroon that thinks he's the boss of the tank. He tries to intimidate everyone from my picasso (who is 2 inches bigger), my yellow tang and others. He even taps at my hand when I am doing the usual cleaning. My wife says he has stripe envy. He is very dark, almost black and his tail stripe doesn't go around his body, it's almost a spot.

Is this normal for maroons? What temperment does yours have? We thought our cinnamon clown was aggressive. Any comments are welcome.

why are you assuming its a male? is there a female in there.

[LargeAngels]

Maroons can be one of the meanest, yellow or white stripe. I have one pair of GSM in which the female (4 1/2") drew blood from my hand and attacked a 7" adult emperor angel. The clown won everytime. Had to remove the emperor, and this was a mean emperor.

Like above said get the others out or there may be problems. GSM's are one of my favorite, but can be one of the meanest.

[No Worries1979]

I'm not sure if it is a male or not. IT is very aggressive. My cinni is in my reef. Are you serious about the picasso? The picasso isn't even phased when the clown defends its territory and I know they can defend with their teeth and spines. I'm not too worried about that. I was just suprised to see that much beligerance from the maroon. Thanks guys

[Raibaru]

Fish personality isn't something we can predict. All we know is there is a strong chance the Maroon will be highly territorial and highly aggressive. But there are of course exceptions and people have had their maroons stay well behaved in their reefs. Yours is also a 90g tank all of this is in? So it may be large enough for all the clowns to thrive.

No one can say for certain how your clowns will act now or in the future. Only that most people who have maroons say that they are very mean fish.

[cape surf rules]

i laso have a gsm and he is very aggressive. All the gsm clowns that i have seen are pretty aggressive.

[No Worries1979]

Cape surf, are you catching some of that NE swell down your way? The water temps are still cold here but we have waves, still waiting for that windswitch.

[bureau13]

My GS Maroon pair are pretty protective of their anemones, but they don't really mess with other fish very often. I used to have a Lunare wrasse, and the female clown and the wrasse would take turns spitting sand at each other.

Here's something surprising...I put a decent-sized Sebae clown in my tank because I have a S. haddoni carpet anemone that was getting picked on by one of my other fish. The maroons weren't too happy with this at first, and would chase him back to his anemone whenever he got out, but they've completely stopped doing this. They no longer interact at all in an aggressive manner, and even though the tank is a 6 foot tank, their anemones are maybe a foot apart right now. I think maybe my maroons are not so bad as some thing. By far their most annoying traits are stirring up sand and knocking corals off of their perches if I don't cement them down (and sometimes even if I do).

jds