davidcmarkham
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My clownfish (percula) is harassing my firefish goby. They are the first two fish in my tank and were this way for the first week but settled down recently â€"œ so I figured it was stress from moving in. The goby’s tail had almost completely grown back. Yesterday I did a 20% water change (65 gallon tank with 75# live rock, 258W VHO 50/50) and when it was done the goby’s tail was shredded again worse than before. All water parameters are good (8.2 pH, 1.023 specific gravity, 79°F, normal alkalinity, no detectable ammonia or nitrite, <10 ppm nitrate.) I am wondering if getting a host anemone would calm down the clownfish. I had only planned on getting only soft coral because I am new to salt water (have had freshwater for 5 years though) and I have heard that anemone walk around and can sometimes sting coral â€"œ so I was going to stick with stationary guys. I wanted some input from all of you wise gurus of the hobby out there on any or all of the following:
a) will a host for the clown calm him down from chasing the goby?
b) Is an anemone better than a coral as a host?
c) suggestions of anemone or coral that would be good for me to get.
d) I live on the gulf coast and my friends and I pull anemone off the jetty â€"œ and they live happily in my friend’s tank (2 feet deep with not even good light!?!) they are about 1.5†diameter at the base and maybe 3-4†tip to tip when they are fully open. Red and blue mostly but they change color. Anyone know of any particular risk or benefit to harvesting your own livestock? I don’t have much in my tank yet, so there is relatively low risk even if I do bring in a disease or something.
Reef central does not let me stay logged in for more than a few seconds at a time (?) so I promise I am reading everything I just won’t be able to respond frequently. Many thanks in advance.
Dave
a) will a host for the clown calm him down from chasing the goby?
b) Is an anemone better than a coral as a host?
c) suggestions of anemone or coral that would be good for me to get.
d) I live on the gulf coast and my friends and I pull anemone off the jetty â€"œ and they live happily in my friend’s tank (2 feet deep with not even good light!?!) they are about 1.5†diameter at the base and maybe 3-4†tip to tip when they are fully open. Red and blue mostly but they change color. Anyone know of any particular risk or benefit to harvesting your own livestock? I don’t have much in my tank yet, so there is relatively low risk even if I do bring in a disease or something.
Reef central does not let me stay logged in for more than a few seconds at a time (?) so I promise I am reading everything I just won’t be able to respond frequently. Many thanks in advance.
Dave
