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This isn't in a tank, but last summer I found a large family of Maroon clowns hosting in the same Bubble tip anemone colony as a small family of cinnamon clowns (A. melanopus) on the Great Barrier Reef. Their families lived within three feet of each other, it was awesome
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Mine laid eggs for the first time on St. Patrick's day!
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Those two species of clown might not get along so well once there's an anemone to fight over... food for thought.
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+1 on new branches. Congrats!
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I know, but I love them so I've had good luck with other delicate species like my regal angelfish, so perhaps that's made me overly optimistic!
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I have a naso tang (about 4") and a blue hippo tang (about 3") in a 150 that I added on the same day. They get along fine. I have heard that it is best to either add all the tangs at once, or add the least aggressive tang first, and have also been told that when mixing tangs of different temperaments, it can help if your largest tang is also the mellowest. I might like to try my hand at an Achilles tang in the future, but I'm hesitant because I feel that might be pushing it in a 150... thoughts?
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Neat! That's some good-lookin' rock you got there.
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You might have luck with the new maroon if you divide the tank for a few days, or float him in an eggcrate basket or a colander. That will give them time to see each other without letting them fight. I've heard that can sometimes work with aggressive fish like triggers.
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I've found it's best to assume that if your fish is from a species that is known to jump, just assume that he will try it at some point in his life and plan accordingly. I recently lost my blue spotted jawfish to jumping; he made it out of a minute crack in the screens that I was using to cover the tank. I'd had him for two years. I will not be getting another one until I build a full canopy to keep him in. And while the mandarins I've known are not typically jumpers, they are capable of surprising bursts of speed and would sometimes jump out of the water if startled. Hope this helps!
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I've seen my clowns eating pods, though they're not the best pod hunters in the world...
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He might do well in a FOWLR tank...
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Cute! He looks like mine.
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I started out using tap water but switched to RO/DI after six months of battling algae. I wanted to see if it could be done, but found that hauling RO/DI really was less work than trying to control the nuisance algae! Trust me, it's easier to just avoid tap.
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I believe lost an Acro frag to one of these things - didn't notice it growing on the frag base, and I'm guessing it stung it. There was no other bobvious reason for the frag to die so suddenly. Keep an eye on it...
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It's good for your tank, don't worry about it.
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Regal's where I got the acrylic to make my own overflow boxes on my last tank. They were very helpful.
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Nice! Feed that puppy lots, maybe it'll make clones faster!
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I started out with crushed coral, and ended up switching to sand. I prefer the sand because it lets me have more interesting sandbed dwellers, like gobies and Nassarius snails.
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I've got some sponge that looks like that.
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I seeded my system by just adding macroalgae and sand from a well-established tank. My refugium is just now starting to crawl with pods, it's great! +1 for after cycling.
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Sounds risky... I've heard you need to be very careful with that stuff, as it's easy to overdose. You might end up accidentally overdosing your smaller fish and underdosing your bigger ones. Good luck with the captures!
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That certainly looks like a mushroom... and I think I saw some shrooms like that growing on a large piece of rubble in that tank a while back.
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If you get two small ones, eventually one will become the female, but they will duke it out until they determine which one will be the girl (what I did)! Still, better two little babies than two adults, if you have to get two of the same size. I've heard of black and whites pairing with normals, so I doubt there's a problem there. Good luck!
