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In Memoriam
Hello again. I have two questions regarding new fish in my tank.
First, not by choice, but my mom, who doesn't know anything about fish tanks, was at the lfs store picking up dry goods. She saw a yellow tang, which was huge, and decided to get it. When I was not home, she and my sister acclimated them by following what the lfs employee told them to do.
Problem is, there is sohal and clown tang already in here. So I came home later that night to find this yellow tang, hiding, and when he did come out, getting chased and thrashed by both the sohal and clown.
At this point it was midnight, I shut the lights off, and decided the yellow tang needed to go back to the store that morning (yesterday morning). Upon doing some compatability research, I read about the mirror trick some people use with tangs. Having heard that before, but never using it, I said why not, and put a 10 inch by 5 inch mirror in front of tank. Before I put the mirror up, both tangs were chasing and fighting the yellow. I put the mirror up, and within ten seconds, both the clown tang and sohal tang have been staring and chasing there reflections.
It has been about a day, and now the yellow tang comes out, swims openly, and seldomly draws attention from the other tangs. The yellow tang has even started eating right in front of them, without issue. My question is, is this a bandaid move, or can I use some sort of strategy of removing the mirror after a few days, then placing it back up a few days later?
Secondly, I bought a lion fish. I did not get the big one I initially wanted that was eating frozen, but a small black volitan which was 100 less. It was eating live mollies at the store, no frozen. I hate feeding live, inconvenience as well as risk to the tank disease wise. My plan is to only feed frozen, and before he starts to starve, hopefully he eats frozen. That's what I did before, about 15 years ago, and it worked, but that was a long time ago and Im not sure if there are better methods out there. Please let me know what you think. THank you
First, not by choice, but my mom, who doesn't know anything about fish tanks, was at the lfs store picking up dry goods. She saw a yellow tang, which was huge, and decided to get it. When I was not home, she and my sister acclimated them by following what the lfs employee told them to do.
Problem is, there is sohal and clown tang already in here. So I came home later that night to find this yellow tang, hiding, and when he did come out, getting chased and thrashed by both the sohal and clown.
At this point it was midnight, I shut the lights off, and decided the yellow tang needed to go back to the store that morning (yesterday morning). Upon doing some compatability research, I read about the mirror trick some people use with tangs. Having heard that before, but never using it, I said why not, and put a 10 inch by 5 inch mirror in front of tank. Before I put the mirror up, both tangs were chasing and fighting the yellow. I put the mirror up, and within ten seconds, both the clown tang and sohal tang have been staring and chasing there reflections.
It has been about a day, and now the yellow tang comes out, swims openly, and seldomly draws attention from the other tangs. The yellow tang has even started eating right in front of them, without issue. My question is, is this a bandaid move, or can I use some sort of strategy of removing the mirror after a few days, then placing it back up a few days later?
Secondly, I bought a lion fish. I did not get the big one I initially wanted that was eating frozen, but a small black volitan which was 100 less. It was eating live mollies at the store, no frozen. I hate feeding live, inconvenience as well as risk to the tank disease wise. My plan is to only feed frozen, and before he starts to starve, hopefully he eats frozen. That's what I did before, about 15 years ago, and it worked, but that was a long time ago and Im not sure if there are better methods out there. Please let me know what you think. THank you
