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Old 08-25-2004, 04:46 AM
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Default Ocellaris clowns struggling in the current

I've got two small Ocellaris clowns, I've had them for 2 months in a quarantine tank.

Yesterday I put them into the main tank, a 120 gallon with Mag 12 return. The Tunze stream is temporarily turned off.

The two clowns seem to be struggling in the current. They don't seem to rest in a low-flow area of the tank in amongst the rocks, but stay in a corner near one of the returns constantly swimming upstream. They also ignore their food even when I turned off the return pump to feed them.

I didn't figure the mag 12 return in itself would create very much flow in this tank.

I'm just wondering if this will cause a problem. Should I put the clowns back in the Q-tank until they are larger and better able to swim against the currents? And also I'm puzzled why they don't hang out in caves/holes in the rock like I expected they would.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:24 AM
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Most fish like to swim in the flow ime.
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Old 08-25-2004, 10:56 PM
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OK thanks I will stop worrying so much about my fish, maybe I am overprotective.
 


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