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Old 03-01-2009, 09:53 PM
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Ha Ha! Little bugger eh? That's why my hermits are in the sump. So far he's left the snails alone although that may be because they are large Turbos. Does yours like to hang out in a high flow area and just sort of hover in the current? Mine also hangs out with the Foxface quite a bit.
Yes he loves flow!

He is a little bugger though. He leaves big snails alone. I am going to have to rethink my clean up crew now. He actually leaves the larger hermits alone too but I doubt that will last.

I think I will add some smaller fish that hopefully will clean up what the other don't eat. The two damsels are good for that.

I will also pick up some more larger snails I think.

Any clean up crew ideas?
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Old 03-01-2009, 10:03 PM
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Yes he loves flow!

He is a little bugger though. He leaves big snails alone. I am going to have to rethink my clean up crew now. He actually leaves the larger hermits alone too but I doubt that will last.

I think I will add some smaller fish that hopefully will clean up what the other don't eat. The two damsels are good for that.

I will also pick up some more larger snails I think.

Any clean up crew ideas?

Not really. I've just got the 12 Chromis who do a good job of picking off all the small pieces. And the large Turbos. I've got 2 peppermints and 4 hermits in the sump. A large Coral-Banded Shrimp might be OK, not sure.
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Old 03-01-2009, 10:14 PM
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Not really. I've just got the 12 Chromis who do a good job of picking off all the small pieces. And the large Turbos. I've got 2 peppermints and 4 hermits in the sump. A large Coral-Banded Shrimp might be OK, not sure.
Yeah my chromis do a good job too actually.

I highly doubt even a large coral banded shrimp would last 5 minutes around this guy. He ate a huge Emerald crab the other day as soon as he found it. Ripped all the legs off and then ate the body through the bottom of the shell.

He strikes hermits so fast that they don't even have time to get back in their shell and if they do, he picks them up and bashed them on rocks or the glass (which I don't like) until they come back out.

He is a pretty wicked fish! I love him!
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Old 03-01-2009, 10:44 PM
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Yeah my chromis do a good job too actually.

I highly doubt even a large coral banded shrimp would last 5 minutes around this guy. He ate a huge Emerald crab the other day as soon as he found it. Ripped all the legs off and then ate the body through the bottom of the shell.

He strikes hermits so fast that they don't even have time to get back in their shell and if they do, he picks them up and bashed them on rocks or the glass (which I don't like) until they come back out.

He is a pretty wicked fish! I love him!

Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with mine too. Well, I guess we'll have to be the CUC. Frequent siphoning and water changes.
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Old 03-02-2009, 01:06 AM
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Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with mine too. Well, I guess we'll have to be the CUC. Frequent siphoning and water changes.
I think your right.

I do weekly water changes and will have to start siphoning out as much detritus as I can I think.

I really don't see much of anything collecting in the rocks (my tank is so open) but it would probably be a good idea. I think I am going to add more flow too. I could easily hide some powerheads behind the rockwork.
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I think your right.

I do weekly water changes and will have to start siphoning out as much detritus as I can I think.

I really don't see much of anything collecting in the rocks (my tank is so open) but it would probably be a good idea. I think I am going to add more flow too. I could easily hide some powerheads behind the rockwork.

Fortunately I have quite a bit of flow through the sump. (About 2700 GPH) so any detritus I can get up into the water column goes down the overflow pretty quickly. I could probably use another PH myself.
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Old 03-02-2009, 06:35 PM
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LOL...maybe I am just about done for fish. I just counted them all last night.

Naso Tang (Brodie)
Yellow Tang (Bubbles)
Powder Brown Tang (Brock)
Kole Tang (Cole)
Hippo Tang (Dorian)
Coral Rabbitfish (Jacob)
Copperband Butterfly (Gambit)
Harlequin Tusk (Hades)
Hawkfish
Pair of Clowns (Zeus and Hera)
Fang Blenny (Iceman)
Cleaner Wrasse
Scissor Goby
8 Chromis
2 Blue Damsels
Orange Spotted Sleeper Goby

Meh...who am I kidding...there will be more. Just no more tangs for sure. Small guys only.

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Old 03-02-2009, 09:26 PM
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That is a pretty big list all right.

Mine are:

in the 225 gal:
Harlequin Tuskfish (Sydney)
Foxface (Michael J)
SF Tang (Poon)
Chocolate Tang (Cocoa)
Lamarck's Angel (Angelina)
Hawkfish (Hawkeye)
Lawnmower Blenny (Toro)
Bannerfish (Gil)
12 Chromis

And in the 90 gal:
Coral Beauty Angel (Halo)
2 Ocellaris (Marlin & Coral)
Green Mandarin Dragonet (Hookah)
Ruby-Headed Fairy Wrasse (Ruby)
Pajama Cardianl (PJ)
Yellow Watchman Goby (Toby)
Blue Gudgeon (Frankie)
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Old 03-02-2009, 09:32 PM
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That is a pretty big list all right.

Mine are:

in the 225 gal:
Harlequin Tuskfish (Sydney)
Foxface (Michael J)
SF Tang (Poon)
Chocolate Tang (Cocoa)
Lamarck's Angel (Angelina)
Hawkfish (Hawkeye)
Lawnmower Blenny (Toro)
Bannerfish (Gil)
12 Chromis

And in the 90 gal:
Coral Beauty Angel (Halo)
2 Ocellaris (Marlin & Coral)
Green Mandarin Dragonet (Hookah)
Ruby-Headed Fairy Wrasse (Ruby)
Pajama Cardianl (PJ)
Yellow Watchman Goby (Toby)
Blue Gudgeon (Frankie)
Yeah see your list is more reasonable! I just can't resist fish!
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Old 03-02-2009, 10:57 PM
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Got a free Bubbletip clone over the weekend. Actually its a decent size already. Free because the mother anemone has lost color in my friends tank and he wants to see how it does in mine (plus I dont think he wants two of them in his tank anyways). It was in his sump for a week with little to no light but still looks ok after just a day or two in my tank.

I don't know if its stopped moving yet but I hope so. It was on the move all day yesterday. Hopefully its happy now.



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