Leaping Clownfish

[SeahorseKeeper]

I was doing tank maintenance today and my clown would not stop biting me. Then, when I was doing maintenance outside of the tank the clown would come to the surface and spit water at me. Finally, I guess it decided it wanted to get me one more time and leaped out of the tank into my shirt. Crazy clownfish!!

Here is the culprit:

 

[SirFragalot]

Hahaha! My clown is NASTY. Its a gold banded maroon. She attacks me every time i have to do something in the tank. I need to get her a new anemone to distract her.

 

[lefkonj]

My female Maroon is exactly the same way. She will chase off much bigger fish to get large chunks of food for her anemone.

 

[mnat]

When I first setup a tank, my first inhabitants where a pair of black and white oscellaris. They would always nip your hand when you were doing tank maintaence which always freaked me out. I felt like such a wuss being afraid of a 2 inch clown.

 

[SirFragalot]

When I first setup a tank, my first inhabitants where a pair of black and white oscellaris. They would always nip your hand when you were doing tank maintaence which always freaked me out. I felt like such a wuss being afraid of a 2 inch clown.

HAHAHAHA!! I think the exact same when it happens. It startles me enough to jerk my arm which tosses a lot of water out of the tank. I started using one of my plastic rods that has a scrubber at the end of it as a distraction.

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I was screaming when the clown jumped down my shirt and was very startled when it spit water at me.

 

[Hockeynut]

That's hilarious, that would have made a great video ha

 

[SHLUZER]

I had same dark clownfish pair and boy jumped out. well , girl was ok with lighter replacement.