As background I QT all my fish through Copper and Prazipro over a month and since starting this regime have not had a single tank death in just over 2 years...as it should be. To my discredit I stayed in denial about a QT for far too long.No everything gets 2 weeks of copper, a week of Prazipro and a week of clean water.
I have a single Tomato Clown who has been superb looking and approaching 4" after 2 years in the tank. There was a BTA in there but it went to God about a year ago...the Clown just hung around where it used to be. He would dig the substrate out to about a full 3-4" of depth in this spot until he reached the glass tank bottom. I got really sick of the mess he was making ( now is where it goes off the rails) and thought...aha...I can trick something as small as a Clownfish. I got some small pebbles from the beach and put them on top of the re-levelled substrate where he insisted on excavating. He couldn't move them, so just sat on top of them hyperventialting and died in 24 hrs. I put it down to stress provided by awful fishkeeping.
The pebbles are fine, all the other tank inhabitants are just fine, but the best Tomato Clown I have seen is in the bin. He was a real earthmover..knocked any precariously placed coral off its perch to the bottom of the tank... very strong presence. Stupid stupid. Just posting in case someone else can benefit from my experience.Cant quite believe how sorry I am as he owned the tank (including a Blue Tang twice his size) and taking him out of the room has had an impact I would not have anticipated.
I have a single Tomato Clown who has been superb looking and approaching 4" after 2 years in the tank. There was a BTA in there but it went to God about a year ago...the Clown just hung around where it used to be. He would dig the substrate out to about a full 3-4" of depth in this spot until he reached the glass tank bottom. I got really sick of the mess he was making ( now is where it goes off the rails) and thought...aha...I can trick something as small as a Clownfish. I got some small pebbles from the beach and put them on top of the re-levelled substrate where he insisted on excavating. He couldn't move them, so just sat on top of them hyperventialting and died in 24 hrs. I put it down to stress provided by awful fishkeeping.
The pebbles are fine, all the other tank inhabitants are just fine, but the best Tomato Clown I have seen is in the bin. He was a real earthmover..knocked any precariously placed coral off its perch to the bottom of the tank... very strong presence. Stupid stupid. Just posting in case someone else can benefit from my experience.Cant quite believe how sorry I am as he owned the tank (including a Blue Tang twice his size) and taking him out of the room has had an impact I would not have anticipated.
