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10-02-2007, 01:51 PM
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 Help Me Help A Friend SO i am settin up a 55 gallon for a friend i actually meet her at my LFS her husband made a custom slot in the wall for a 55 gallon for her in her office. I told them about the site and told them it would be there best bet. I passed along all the info i got from you guys and thought i could stop them from amkeing the same mistakes i did... this is there tank 55 gallon AGA ( it has only been up for about a month they used live sand and that water that said you didnt have to cycle) HEre is where i think things get fishy...LOL they have 12 FISH IN THERE TANK 7-blue damsels 1-tomato clown 1-perucla clown 1- YELLOW TANG 1 coral beauty 1 blue velvet damsel PLease help me help them realize that this is crazy i almost forgot the tank ahs two whisper hang over the back filters thats it the two probally equal 70 gallons of filtration on meant for upto 60 and one for a 10.... also none of the fish where quarantineed the yellow tang i saw with ick at one point in my lfs as well as the coral beauty yellow tang looks fine now but was on the brink o fdeath 2 weeks ago before they bought it...  |
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10-02-2007, 05:51 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend Lose the damsels.
__________________ Onward through the fog! |
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10-02-2007, 08:58 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend Yes, damsels are bad news and can end up stressing out the others until they die.
__________________ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 125g Reef Mix: Misc Zoos, Misc Mushrooms, 2 Head Frogspawn, Green Star Polyps, Colt Coral, Sebae Anemone, Wart Rock Anemone, Rock Flower Anemone, 4 True Percula, Clarkii Clownfish, Tomato Clownfish, Naso Tang, Yellow Tang, Vlamingii Tang, Powder Brown Tang, One Spot Foxface, 6 Line Wrasse, Pink Spot Goby, Green Clown Goby, Coral Beauty, Royal Gramma, 6 Green Chromis, Sand Sifting Star, Orange Cleaner Star, 2 Pincushion Urchin, Pencil Urchin, 4 Emerald Crabs, Fire Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Pistol Shrimp, 2 Camel Shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 10 Red Hermits, 10 Blue Hermits, 10 White Hermits, 10 Orange Hermits, & many Nassarius Snails, along with 400lb LR, 6"/150lb DSB, & 30gal Refugium |
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10-03-2007, 07:32 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend wow... way to many damsels. clowns are also a type of damsel so with 10 damsels in the tank they might as well flush them down the toilet..... I'm sure its pretty but damsels do not like to be with others types. they really do not like to be cramped up. the yellow tangs need a lot of space to stay healthy and will often get tired of smaller fish and start killing them off. or it could stress them all out letting them all pick up a case of ICH. two carbon filters are "OK" not great. but it should work out as long as its a fish only tank. how much LR do they have? I can go on about this one for a wile...
__________________ blue hippo tang, powder brown tang,6reef chromis, Mandarin,volitan lion, six line wrasse,3kliens butterfly, 4firefish, 2gold face sleeper goby |
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10-03-2007, 09:58 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend i dont recommend Damsels as community fish either, they are just too territorial. also i dont recomend mixing different species of clown fish, they will usually pick on each other. and is that a coral beaty angel!! that is nuts because they will just grow way to big. you need to keep they like in at least 125G. well i hope this helps. im also starting a 55g. |
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10-04-2007, 09:52 AM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend Thanks guys for all your help lease keep in coming.. Just wnated to check but plec said the coral beauty needs a 125 thats not correct is it i know the tang needs a big system but no the angle??? They have around 20 pound sof live rock |
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10-04-2007, 09:31 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend im sorry i thought you were talking about one of the large angels. you are right and they need at least 30g, sorry. Nice looking though! your not gonna keep any corals right? |
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10-04-2007, 09:33 PM
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| Re: Help Me Help A Friend Its the rock beaty! that i was thinking about! hehe |
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