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Old 01-02-2013, 09:59 PM
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I had a Goldstrip Maroon Clownfish that was the living definition of *******. It would smash SPS frags and colonies into pieces (literally), pick up anything semi-loose (like freshly glued frags) and drop them into the waiting tentacles of my mini-maxi nem who'd sting the living **** of of said coral. And, best of all, LOVED to bite me. I'm not talking little nibble bites but full on chunks out of my arm and hand.

So, of course, one day, after a complete **** day at work, I had a heater go in the tank (this was pre-sump days) which promptly fried a bunch of corals and I needed to spend a couple hours elbow deep in the tank trying to clean up the aftermath... all while the little **** was biting me (blood pressure quickly rising...). At one point the damn fish latched onto my arm and wouldn't let go. I yanked my arm out of the tank in a full on rage, fish still attached. Once I had him about 2 ft off the water I grabbed him and pulled him off my arm (with a good gush of blood following shortly behind) and was faced with several options:

1) squish the bastard until it exploded
2) baseball pitch it out the window
3) baseball pitch it out the window but purposely miss the open window and hit the wall

... damn near had a rage black out. Took a minute or two to calm down, be the bigger species and let the fish back into the tank. Had to go for a 45 minute walk just to come down.

The worst part was.... it wasn't even my fish! I was fish sitting while my buddy was away traveling. I celebrated with many beers the day that SOB left my tank.
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Old 01-02-2013, 10:29 PM
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Ok I have had a loooong grudge going on with my tank.....Had a huge die off killed everything but a filefish ...tore down tank and rebuilt it added let it cycle for a month restocked with fish everything looked good for a few months fugly zoos came back fast killed them off by putting rock outside in a pail of snow. Next day woke up to a foul smelling dead tank everything dead bristle worms included...frigging fugly zoos. 99% water change this March will be 2 years with no livestock in it still adding 5gal a water a week there is nothing alive look like the surface of the moon no pods no bristle works no feather dusters everything still running like a functioning tank except the lights are off. The tank has never been cleaner in it's life it actually looks awesome. Think I gonna add some LR soon to try and reseed it. Tested couple weeks ago and it was pretty good.

....and the rock is still outside in a bucket
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Old 01-08-2013, 05:53 AM
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Purple bubble algae in my frag tank is driving me insane. Next weekend ill be doing a hydrogen peroxide dip for everything then transferring everything to a quarantine then eventually into my new frag tank
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