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Hi all,

I recently purchased a pair of captive bred clownfish. First time purchasing captive bred. Their behaviour is very weird, but I believe since they are captive bred so they have not seen the world yet. How do I change their behaviours? or is it forever like this.

1) Have no FEAR, they don't really hide in rocks or caves. just swim openly all the time even brushing with my bigger angel and trigger like they are buddies. Not once in 24hours have I seen them even go near any rocks/caves.

2) Have no FEAR, they are not afraid of nets, they don't dart away super fast like other fishes.

3) Have no FEAR, when all lights are off at night they just sleep in the open.

Is this 1 of the reason why "they say" captive bred fishes are better? cause they have no FEAR hence least likely to be stressed and fall sick.. lol.

Is getting them to host a cave/shelter possible in time? will they automatically do it maybe after a few days or weeks? anyone have experience it before?

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I think other than no fear, captive bred clownfish also dunno how to host anemones

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Hi all,

I recently purchased a pair of captive bred clownfish. First time purchasing captive bred. Their behaviour is very weird, but I believe since they are captive bred so they have not seen the world yet. How do I change their behaviours? or is it forever like this.

1) Have no FEAR, they don't really hide in rocks or caves. just swim openly all the time even brushing with my bigger angel and trigger like they are buddies. Not once in 24hours have I seen them even go near any rocks/caves.

2) Have no FEAR, they are not afraid of nets, they don't dart away super fast like other fishes.

3) Have no FEAR, when all lights are off at night they just sleep in the open.

Is this 1 of the reason why "they say" captive bred fishes are better? cause they have no FEAR hence least likely to be stressed and fall sick.. lol.

Is getting them to host a cave/shelter possible in time? will they automatically do it maybe after a few days or weeks? anyone have experience it before?

Mine all sleep and host in clay vase. Shld be able to,, Cheers and Happy Reefing..

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thanks for replies, how do you train them btw.

also my current pair when sleep. they sleep sideways at the top of the tank at the surface of the water(like dead fish).. is it weird or is it a problem? seems to keep jumping sometimes knocking the internal rim of the tank. only when sleeping, day time is normal all ok.

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thanks for replies, how do you train them btw.

also my current pair when sleep. they sleep sideways at the top of the tank at the surface of the water(like dead fish).. is it weird or is it a problem? seems to keep jumping sometimes knocking the internal rim of the tank. only when sleeping, day time is normal all ok.

Hey Jun005, check out this video on how to let clown fish host anemone.

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