Wryknow
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I just wanted to share my experience on this.....
I have a tomato clown that I inherited with a used tank that I bought about 8 months ago. At first she wasn't a problem. She got along with the other fish and showed no overly aggressive characteristics until about the 3 month mark, when she started bullying some of the other fish a little. No big deal, I told myself, tomato clowns are going to be a little agressive.
At about the 4 month mark I got an RBTA. My little clown jumped right in it, made herself at home, and the RBTA did great. Right about then though she decided that she owned the entire tank and began terrorizing all newcomers. Casualties included a 6 line wrasse and a common firefish.
The brittle star was happy but I certainly was not! The little b***h needed to go!
Chuckling softly to herself at my foolish efforts, the little bastard then proceeded to evade all attempts to capture and remove her from the tank: traps, nets, night attacks - I never even got close. I was about 30 seconds away from buying fishig tackle. There were just too many great hiding places in the rock and she was a nervous little sucker.
About a month ago though I happened on a stroke of good luck - a local reefer was moving and selling his tank and livestock. I scored a couple of mature purple tangs for $120. I was nervous about adding them into the main tank though because of the b****y little clown fish and her recent history with new additions. I redoubled my efforts to catch her but was no more successful than before.
With great trepidation I added the tangs to my tank and discovered that I was very, very wrong. My little clown bravely sallied forth from her anemone to attack the new intruders and drive them from her tank with about as much effect as throwing rocks at an Israeli tank. 15 minutes later, she was cowering in her anemone with several fairly nasty bite marks on her sides from where the tangs opened up a can on her punk little a**.
A month later and she's still cowering. I can hardly get her to leave the darn thing! The only time she goes more than 6" from the anemone is when it's feeding time and then she dars out, grabs a bite hustles back like "Jaws" is after her! I love it! Go purple tangs!!!! You rule!!!!
BTW - The purps haven't raised a fin to any other fish in the tank aside from the occassional tang chasing, and no damage is done when that happens. Apparently they are proponents of the "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone philosophy."
I have a tomato clown that I inherited with a used tank that I bought about 8 months ago. At first she wasn't a problem. She got along with the other fish and showed no overly aggressive characteristics until about the 3 month mark, when she started bullying some of the other fish a little. No big deal, I told myself, tomato clowns are going to be a little agressive.
At about the 4 month mark I got an RBTA. My little clown jumped right in it, made herself at home, and the RBTA did great. Right about then though she decided that she owned the entire tank and began terrorizing all newcomers. Casualties included a 6 line wrasse and a common firefish.
The brittle star was happy but I certainly was not! The little b***h needed to go!Chuckling softly to herself at my foolish efforts, the little bastard then proceeded to evade all attempts to capture and remove her from the tank: traps, nets, night attacks - I never even got close. I was about 30 seconds away from buying fishig tackle. There were just too many great hiding places in the rock and she was a nervous little sucker.
About a month ago though I happened on a stroke of good luck - a local reefer was moving and selling his tank and livestock. I scored a couple of mature purple tangs for $120. I was nervous about adding them into the main tank though because of the b****y little clown fish and her recent history with new additions. I redoubled my efforts to catch her but was no more successful than before.
With great trepidation I added the tangs to my tank and discovered that I was very, very wrong. My little clown bravely sallied forth from her anemone to attack the new intruders and drive them from her tank with about as much effect as throwing rocks at an Israeli tank. 15 minutes later, she was cowering in her anemone with several fairly nasty bite marks on her sides from where the tangs opened up a can on her punk little a**.
A month later and she's still cowering. I can hardly get her to leave the darn thing! The only time she goes more than 6" from the anemone is when it's feeding time and then she dars out, grabs a bite hustles back like "Jaws" is after her! I love it! Go purple tangs!!!! You rule!!!!
BTW - The purps haven't raised a fin to any other fish in the tank aside from the occassional tang chasing, and no damage is done when that happens. Apparently they are proponents of the "you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone philosophy."
