My fish hates me

[Sloth]

Are most ocellaris this agressive?

I recently moved my fish's host - a turbinaria coral - and she charged and bit my hand. Of course I jumped and pulled my hand out. Now that the fish knows I'll jump she has become ferocious. Yesterday she literally chased my hand right out of the tank. I mean, I was jerking my hand out of the water and she broke the surface of the water and still got me.

Am I just being a wimp? I don't want to find out if those little teeth can draw blood.

[vince R]

I have a tomato clown that attacks my hand. It will and has drawn blood. I also have 2 (in another tank) ocellaris clowns. These 2 never bother a thing. When I put my fingers in the tank with some flake food they will actually eat the food from my fingertips. So I think you just have a bully. LOL

[qckslvr76]

being a wimp.. ...My clarkii bites me everytime time I stick my hand in the tank..it doesn't bother be none but it is kinda freakish when he first does it..don't be skeered let him have some other meat varieties's!

[Sloth]

This is so stupid. I used to go fishing all the time. I used to grab bass by the lip. Now I'm afraid of a 2" clownfish.

[cj_basser]

My clown hates me, too. It think it was ever since i had to euthinize his mate. Now whenever i put my hand in the tank, he swims up, and begins to charge my hand, and throws water all over it. he also bites pretty bad, too.

[ousnakebyte]

My big female GSM use to be the sweetest fish, but then I went and added an anemone - a home for her to protect. Now, whenever I get in the tank, she tags my hand at least a half a dozen times. And, yes, she has drawn blood - not that often, but it has happened two or three times.

I do have a ring on my left hand, and whenever my left hand is in the tank, she always, I mean always, hits the ring instead of my finger - kinda nice. It's a nice "clownfish guard."

Cheers
Mike

[bonesnreb]

my female gsm use to do the same thing till i flicked her in the nose.. she dont do it no more..now she eats right out of my hand

[slimreb]

The GSM I had in my 55G would attack my hand anytime I would put it into her tank. Notice that I stated "her" tank. She was the boss of everything in that 55G tank and she was vicious. I tried everything to get her to calm down and stop attacking but no good. Some fish are just really vicious I guess. I tried the flicking that bones stated but all that did was make my GSM attack me even worse. She did draw blood a few times. I finally got tired of her attacking my Perculas that I got her a new home. Both the GSM and the pair of Perculas used to live happily together then one day "BAM" my GSM went into ultimate b**ch mode.

[Paddle_Pop]

My niger trigger will attack me or anything i up in the water. So will my arrow crabs...they hid in the shadows and wait till you least expect it then charge and start clawing me. Freaks me out everytime!

[clownlady]

LMAO!!!

That is sooooo.....FUNNY!!!

Come on man...you can't let your friend punk you like that...lol again... !!!! This is what you gotta do...put your whole hand in the water and shake it at your fish and tell it..."N-A-U-G-H-T-Y CLOWNNNNNN"....LMAO!!!!!

[bonesnreb]

you think that clowns hurt try getting clawed by a lobster...now that hurts

[clownlady]

Ouch!

My clownfish...lol , have never bothered me, but I got chomped by my coral banded shrimp.

He's a real bada*s!

[onecrzyboi4u]

My clowns have never tried gettin me.. they all go the other side of the tank. dependin on which area i'm workin until i'm done.. guess mine are lil angels...lol

[Atticus]

I have 2 females in my clown broodstock that will draw blood 90% of the time.

[gaels]

omg! my female clown attacks too. i had no idea they could draw blood!

freaky

gael