ashish
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So it's a sad day..
I bought 2 tank-raised clownfish first week of setting up my tank back in 2007 (u can see them in my avatar 2009). These fish where slowly but surely becoming a true pair and the thought of eventually breeding clownfish was exciting. Since these tank-raised clownfish refused to host my anemone I bought a wild fiji (tomato) clownfish and it hosted the anemone immediately. MY 3 clownfish lived peacefully for 6 years but all of a sudden I notice my 2 paired clownfish's fins torn and my fiji went mike tyson on em. I removed the pair easily and put them in my sump. A few days later (after moving the pairs host hammer coral away from the anemone (which i thought caused the territory behavior) then I put them back into the tank. After the tomato kept attacking I re-netted & moved them back to the sump. In this process I must have torn the females eye resulting in 1 eye POPEYE. I really felt this eye would heal itself since the clownfish was swimming and eating fine up until yesterday. The eye was beginning to turn white and she just died.
I have 1 clownfish in my sump and I really don't know what to do. I really don't feel right giving it to the local pet shop (because they'd probably kill it). I was thinking about putting the clowmfish in a plastic contain (in the tank with holes) to see how the tomato clown reacts. Its impossible to catch my tomato clownfish and he has become so aggressive (he literally has a twitch). What do you think caused such aggression after 6 years? Is there any hopes of me every adding any community fish to my tank with this monster? :sad2: My clownfish has been in my sump for over 2 months I have to get him out. I feel very guilty as I did a few things wrong:
I should have tryed my best to remove the problem fish
I should have bought a new net since my one is old, and not kept trying to re-introduce them to the DT.
I should have treated the popeye in a quarantine tank immediately.
I bought 2 tank-raised clownfish first week of setting up my tank back in 2007 (u can see them in my avatar 2009). These fish where slowly but surely becoming a true pair and the thought of eventually breeding clownfish was exciting. Since these tank-raised clownfish refused to host my anemone I bought a wild fiji (tomato) clownfish and it hosted the anemone immediately. MY 3 clownfish lived peacefully for 6 years but all of a sudden I notice my 2 paired clownfish's fins torn and my fiji went mike tyson on em. I removed the pair easily and put them in my sump. A few days later (after moving the pairs host hammer coral away from the anemone (which i thought caused the territory behavior) then I put them back into the tank. After the tomato kept attacking I re-netted & moved them back to the sump. In this process I must have torn the females eye resulting in 1 eye POPEYE. I really felt this eye would heal itself since the clownfish was swimming and eating fine up until yesterday. The eye was beginning to turn white and she just died.
I have 1 clownfish in my sump and I really don't know what to do. I really don't feel right giving it to the local pet shop (because they'd probably kill it). I was thinking about putting the clowmfish in a plastic contain (in the tank with holes) to see how the tomato clown reacts. Its impossible to catch my tomato clownfish and he has become so aggressive (he literally has a twitch). What do you think caused such aggression after 6 years? Is there any hopes of me every adding any community fish to my tank with this monster? :sad2: My clownfish has been in my sump for over 2 months I have to get him out. I feel very guilty as I did a few things wrong:
I should have tryed my best to remove the problem fish
I should have bought a new net since my one is old, and not kept trying to re-introduce them to the DT.
I should have treated the popeye in a quarantine tank immediately.
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