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Spent Father's Day and Tuesday with the tank.....

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My wife and son were kind enough to let me sit around the house, leave me alone, and work on the tank all day father's day and today. I completed 2 out of 3 things I set out to accomplish. The First things was to tackle my Ph issue, I noticed while the canopy was off the Ph would rise meaning that it was not getting enough fresh o2 in the transfer between the top of the water and the air so as you can see by the pictures I set out to try and remedy that particular issue. I have a cat the jump on top of the tank so I needed the canopy to protect the tank and me from coming home to a dead cat in my tank one day.
Secondly I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the tank breaking two scrapers in the process but finally clearing the front and side tank glass of all algae then removing the bottom cover that ran around the tank so now more of it is seen as well as the sand and bottom corals.
Lastly I spent most of the day attempting to catch my ocellaris clowns since I watched them claim 3/4 of the tank as their territory. Not even the fire fish was allowed on their half. After 4 hours of failing to catch them I finally settled with rearranging some of the rock work and corals in hopes of calming them down in the meantime. Next time I get a day off I think I will attempt to catch them the night before. My plan is to trade them in for a different breed of ocellaris that are younger in hopes of getting a more peaceful pair of clowns in there (its a long shot I know but at this point if they refuse to calm down after this latest change in scenery I will be forced to do something to protect the other inhabitants of the tank.)
Also I couldn't resist but to take one full tank shot showing it nice and clean
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  1. mulebutter's Avatar
    Just what I've heard, but hear is my opinion on the clowns.... as far as I have understood it (not practical experiance, with a dominant/ teritorial species like that, if they are introduced last in the tank, then they don't have as much of an influence. I.don't know if maybe you have another tank you could aclimate them too for a little bit, then re introduce them to yours or not, but that might work. Another suggestion would be just a hang on, quarantine style box you could put them in for a bit in your display, then, after a bit, release them. I know both involve catchin them, so maybe not the best ideas, but just a thought. Hope it helps. Oh, and if it helps too, my girlfriends clown did just fine in a quarantine box in my tank for about 2 weeks before I released him back into her tank. That's also with me having a pink skunk clown in mine and neither seemed to pay much atention to 1 another. Of course, hers is a bit of a daddys boy and nibbles at my fingers anytime they are near the water. Again, hope this helps or at least gets the wheels moving in the right direction.
  2. cyano's Avatar
    thanks for the advice, I will look into doing something, I hate to lose either one of them and would love for the issue to resolve itself, I will look into doing some kind of guaranteeing and re-releasing it is worth a shot, I am also consider adding a few chromis to the tank while they are out hopefully it will make them feel as though there isn't enough room to just reclaim everything. I have an old 12 gallon nano tank that I could probably place the clowns in for a couple weeks to let them kind of forget their territory if that is ok, I don't want to stress them out too much during that period
  3. mulebutter's Avatar
    That bank tank sounds like a sweet idea. The chromis part may not pan out... they're big time pansies. (HA HA!!) I had three in my tank when I got my clown, and that tank is HIS, and he runs them chromis. Lol. It doesn't seem to bother them one bit though, cause that's how they roll. On the other hand, my six line wrasse and the clown could probably share the same piece of food, and not even notice. I know also that the clown in my girlfriends tank runs her blue chromis' around, but doesn't mess with the damsels hardly at all. But, you know, they all have their own personality. Just thought maybe my experiances could at least give you some backround info. Oh! Question.... do they have an anenome that they've adopted? Do you think that would make any difference at all? Hmm! I know my clown will go roll around in my duncan every now and again and it cracks me up! But, they both enjoy it. Ha ha.
  4. cyano's Avatar
    well if I do decide on doing any chromis it will not be the blue/green ones you see all the time I would prefer the lightning double bars or the orange line chromis just because I have heard they are little kinder to their own kind then the blue/green. I have a BTA in the tank with them but unfortunately they are already dedicated to a rock of zoos that I have in there and once they start hosting something it's hard to get them to switch to something else despite my best efforts. The zoos may be part of the problem actually because they are scattered throughout the left half of the tank and spread so fast that I had to separate the rock work to keep them away from my sps and lps. anyway I guess sometime soon I will pull out the old nano and try to get it cycling, I do not plan on using any sand or rock in that tank but may throw in a couple pieces just to give the clowns something to hide behind and plan on using water out of a water change from my 75 gallon in there to keep from having to wait for a major cycle