Ardeus
03/20/2010, 05:21 AM
Hi,
I have a couple of ocellaris (orange male and black and white female) and they were happy for a few years.
A couple of months ago I got their first anemones (2 BTA's) and they took to them immediatly.
Then I got a dwarf angel and although he stressed the couple of ocellaris a bit, things were ok for a few weeks.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3301/20032010.jpg (http://img291.imageshack.us/i/20032010.jpg/)
One day I woke up and I found the female ocellaris cornered at the top of the tank with both the centropyge and the male ocellaris taking turns to harass her.
I don't know who started it, but I removed the centropyge.
The male ocellaris kept harassing the female and he wouldn't allow her back in the anemones. But day by day, she managed to get closer and closer.
Yesterday I changed some corals position and it served as a reset on their pecking order.
At night, an hour before the lights went out, they started an ugly fight and the female regained the upper hand... I thought that everything was coming back to order, because after that, he was submissive and she wasn't being nasty to him.
Today, he decided to resist again and he doesn't let her in the anemone.
Is it possible he already changed to a female? How long does the process take? Can he possible in the middle? What happens in these situations?
I have a couple of ocellaris (orange male and black and white female) and they were happy for a few years.
A couple of months ago I got their first anemones (2 BTA's) and they took to them immediatly.
Then I got a dwarf angel and although he stressed the couple of ocellaris a bit, things were ok for a few weeks.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3301/20032010.jpg (http://img291.imageshack.us/i/20032010.jpg/)
One day I woke up and I found the female ocellaris cornered at the top of the tank with both the centropyge and the male ocellaris taking turns to harass her.
I don't know who started it, but I removed the centropyge.
The male ocellaris kept harassing the female and he wouldn't allow her back in the anemones. But day by day, she managed to get closer and closer.
Yesterday I changed some corals position and it served as a reset on their pecking order.
At night, an hour before the lights went out, they started an ugly fight and the female regained the upper hand... I thought that everything was coming back to order, because after that, he was submissive and she wasn't being nasty to him.
Today, he decided to resist again and he doesn't let her in the anemone.
Is it possible he already changed to a female? How long does the process take? Can he possible in the middle? What happens in these situations?