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Old 03-18-2006, 05:28 PM
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As mentioned..... (see what the ignore feature does )

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It's not so much a size restriction, it's more so a diet issue. It's because mandarins (and scooter blenny's unfortunately) feed off little creatures called copepods (sp?) they are little tiny "bugs" that live in your sand and rock. The fish grazes all day over rocks picking off these pods
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Old 03-18-2006, 05:39 PM
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Now NOw lets not get to mean on som ones thread please keep it tactful..... and for Flames they are a hit and a miss. I had one in my tank the 62 gal tank and guess what it messed up all my digita and cap's that i had....
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Old 03-18-2006, 05:47 PM
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Are flames typically hard to keep? I'm not really planning on having that many corals in my tank. Just enough colour to make it look good
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Old 03-18-2006, 06:06 PM
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J,

I think you might be better off getting 1 firefish. unless they are pair, when they become adults they will harass each other until one of them jumps or dies of stress.

As for clowns... I've found that it is best to wait until you find THE PERFECT clowns that you want. Personality and color wise. You've said false percs, but I think if you enjoy clowns that host, perculas, in my experience are more likely to host. Also have really neat black patterns...

As for the angels, I had a really great potters that didn't nip at anything until 2 years. Also had a flame angel that was an angel in one person's tank but an utter terror in mine....
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I actually already have my clownfish. The LFS told me they were false, but I guess because they have hosted the anenome in my tank that they are true. They do have really neat patterns.

I was under the impression that you kind of had to buy fire fish in pairs. I was told that they would do better like that.
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Old 03-18-2006, 07:49 PM
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I actually already have my clownfish. The LFS told me they were false, but I guess because they have hosted the anenome in my tank that they are true. They do have really neat patterns.

I was under the impression that you kind of had to buy fire fish in pairs. I was told that they would do better like that.
just because they host an anemone does not make them false or true...both host aneome's as well as both suometimes won't in captivity...
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What's all this false and true silliness when it comes to percula clowns Either the clown is a percula or it's an ocellaris

BTW, I have a pair of captive bred ocellaris hosting in a GBTA. They were 2+ years old when I introduced to the GBTA's tank, and they hosted within a couple of days after being added to the tank.
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