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[Coralgurl]

Tang and dotty back have gone to their new home! Lessoned learned about fish, had to pull almost every rock out to get the dotty back so have reaquascaped tank, looks better! Lesson learned - no more removing fish, thats alot of work, took over an hour! Good news, cardinals are now hanging out together

[mike31154]

Aww shucks, you really could have kept the Tang, he stood out so nice in your tank photo and as I mentioned looked to be happy with the swimming room in your 4 footer. I mean, in the grand scheme of things what's a foot or two when compared to the size of the ocean? We keep these critters selfishly for our own pleasure, somewhat akin to birds in a cage. I hardly consider the difference between a 4 foot tank & a 6 foot tank is really going to significantly change the behaviour of a fish evolved over thousands of years in the ocean.

Anyhow, it's a done deal and I'm sure your family will get over it once the clownfish pair is established in your little slice of the ocean. I guess of all the fish we keep, clowns are probably the least stressed out by confined spaces since they rarely venture more than a few feet from their anemone in the wild.

[Coralgurl]

I do miss the color already, but he really wasn't nice to the blenny, was still trying to smack him around tonight. The angels just hang out behind the rock, hope they start to come out they are really pretty fish. The blenny is now all over the tank, instead of sticking around one rock so I do think it was a good decision. Ya in the big scheme of things, whatever size tank the fish are in, nothing compared to the ocean! The tang still had some growing to do. This hobby is quite subjective at times it seems. My last clown was all over the tank and loved to jump in the pump flow and race across the tank with the chromis. Was quite funny! Sad he jumped....found him on the floor... will have another yellow tang when we get a bigger tank and can have more options!