My clown buying experience

[mikev]

Here is #1; hopefully it explains why I could not resist.... His name is Spot and the picture would have not been possible without generous help of JD, Ken, Martin and others....as well as three cubes of frozen bloodworms to trick him out of the cave.

[cybermeez]

Very nice markings! I like the "oddball" Clowns.

[mikev]

Very nice markings! I like the "oddball" Clowns.

Thanks. Hopefully, my other clowns agree.

So far Spot had difficult time with the clowns at the store, clearly has problems with #2 (whom I got really to keep him company for now), and if my circus (how do you call a scoal of clowns?) rejects him too... I don't want to think about this yet.

[shari]

One is one, two is a pair and more than three (a trio) is a shoal...

[mikev]

Final update:

I've finally moved the new two clowns to the main tank. The "normal" clown instantly joined the crowd, Spot went into hiding ... for about three minutes ... then joined too. No fighting or chasing at all and there may be none: the newcomers are slightly smaller then the rest.

(So Emma was totally right: spots/patterns do not matter. The original abnormal behavior of Spot was probably only because he was stressed.)

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Where fighting and chasing did occur was in the tank I removed the clowns from. Within an hour, the largest yoyo there (about 4 mo old, nearly 3") discovered that the clown hiding place is empty. So he turned white and for the rest of the day chased everyone else non-stop, loaches and non-loaches alike. For the next day, the four (only slightly) smaller yoyo's were chasing each other.