Fighting Clowns

[tawnykittin]

Help, my well established tank 4.5 years Clown loaches {2} Gold Gurramie{1} couple tetras and a few guppies have all done well but woke this morning to find Clowns fighting Lip locking and Greying. Not sure what to do is this normal for them. Cant loose my Cowns

[chefkeith]

It's quite normal. It's a hierarchy battle to determine who's the boss. They can go at it for hours, or even days. So of my clowns get scared up quite badly from these fights, but the heal up in a couple of days.

[starsplitter7]

How big is your tank? Clowns like to be in a group of 6 or more -- it also disperses any aggression. Do they have places to hide to get away from each other?

[arny]

nothing to worry about. my ladder loaches do it as well usually at dinner time.