dont worry about that ich outbreak. It started from adding a new tang and my sailfin chased it for a week straight, it got ich and before I could do anything over $1k in fish were dead or dying.
Your tank wouldnt get overgrown by xenia if you stayed on top of it. Also, they only reproduce in good conditions. Check out Aquacon for more info. Anyway I'm just suggesting it, you don't have to get it.
You might temper your advice a bit, fish042099. You make it sound like you're some kind of Xenia expert. Your advice sounds like a lot of here say. Xenia is very aggressive in terms of spreading and very hard to remove. I have it but I knew what I was getting into. Clowns will accept many substitute hosts, not just Xenia.
I wouldn't count on being able to use your larger tank as a backup. Just because you had two pairs of clowns coexisting there before does't mean you can count on it working out again. The fish in your other tank are now older and better established and that means they're going to be more territorial. Even if it works in the short run, when one pair reaches maturity and starts spawning all bets are off.
I'm sorry to hear about your earlier ich problems. Be aware that your larger tank probably still has ich. Where it came from is less important than what you did about it. Unless you removed any surviving fish, treated them, and allowed your display to run fishless for six weeks or so, you've still got ich in that tank.
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