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Old 03-16-2014, 07:03 AM
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Great job on the screen and I guess it is ready for some fish tomorrow.
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Old 03-16-2014, 08:04 AM
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Just glue your torch to the back glass. Thats what I did, looks cool and keeps it away from everything else
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Old 03-16-2014, 04:07 PM
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Just glue your torch to the back glass. Thats what I did, looks cool and keeps it away from everything else
The issue is , our clown fish is hosting in the torch. He is slowly being stung to death. He is covered in black sting marks. He will occasionally get swollen areas too. We used to have 2 clowns. But came home one day to find the clown sucking on a torch tentacle. He was dead a few days later.

So I need to move the torch out of the tank. Or try the overflow box
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Old 03-16-2014, 04:11 PM
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Can you get him an anemone to host in?
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Old 03-16-2014, 05:37 PM
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My clowns host in my torch, no stinging. Maybe it's something else?
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Old 03-16-2014, 05:41 PM
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I had two clowns that hosted a torch. They did get lots of black marks however they lived a long and healthy life.

Are there any other signs of bad health? Or just the black marks?
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Old 03-16-2014, 06:24 PM
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That rod is awesome! I want one.

I would have thought that an anemone sting was more potent than a torch coral. Certainly in my experience they are. I wonder if one possible explanation is that if your clowns were captive bred that they've mutated and lost their ability to withstand nematocysts stings. Generations upon generations of inbreeding could potential cause this. In the wild if a clown was born with such a defect they would likely perish rather quickly and not propagate the potentially defective gene. But that's just a wild ass guess..
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