Spar
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my clowns have hosted my MP60 :hmm4: if that aint suicide, i dont know what is (albeit they have made it 2 years doing this... they sure aren't good at it if that is their intent)
Your creatures do not commit suicide
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my clowns have hosted my MP60 :hmm4: if that aint suicide, i dont know what is (albeit they have made it 2 years doing this... they sure aren't good at it if that is their intent)
Tiberione
New member
Hes a trill seeker
My Copperband was trying to convince my hammer
coral to crush it to death.
Paul, is that a wall hammer?
burkhart.5150
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doctorwhoreefer
In Memoriam
I wouldn't say it's digressed so much as been acknowledged..
If proper precautions for critters weren't a thought before for some, perhaps they might be now!
:lolspin:
slief
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I wouldn't say it's digressed so much as been acknowledged..
If proper precautions for critters weren't a thought before for some, perhaps they might be now!
:lolspin:
If it makes you feel any better, just a few days ago, I had a wrasse commit "suicide" by jumping out of the water onto the top of my tank. I found wrasse jerky. This prompted me to finish my screen cover for that half of the tank as this wasn't the first time it happened. Last time, it happened right in front of me while I was up top. Fortunately I saved that one. Oddly, they always seem to jump on one side of the tank. Probably because that is usually where I feed from. I will admit that when I took to finishing my screen lid which I started a few weeks ago but had to wait for the right screen, I thought of you and this thread. As such, I did my bit of suicide prevention. :thumbsup:
That said, while this topic is has certainly garnered it's share of exposure and sarcasm, there is truth to what you are saying. The onus is on us to do what we can to prevent casualties. Our livestock can't help the hazards we create within our tanks and there is plenty we can do to prevent most of those kinds of losses. I've been involved in this hobby for a very long time and get lazy myself. This lid is a great example of something I should have done a long time ago to prevent inadvertent loss of life. Had I done it after the first loss nearly a year ago, I could have saved 2 others.. So as much as I heckled you (playfully) in my last post, there is gravity to your point and between this thread and the jerky, It prompted me to expedite and solution to an issue in my tank. :beers:
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doctorwhoreefer
In Memoriam
I need to finish my gyre cages for the maxspect... I made one, a bit too bulky, but I'm considering it version 1.0. (my measurements were off too so I had to squeeze the pump in a little lol)
With all the products on the market, I can't belive there's not more products for guarding fish again powerheads, overflows, etc.. Kinda surprising if ya think about it.
hkgar
Active member
So it is some kind of unique creature, not an encrusting coral but a crustacean coral? Interesting.
hogfanreefer
Active member
More like a crushtacean coral!
Paul B
Premium Member
So this guy, a clingfish decided to jump into my surface skimmer which leads to an empty bio pellet chamber that I have just for the coolness factor and it is filled with brittle stars then it goes to the protein skimmer then to the algae trough and last but not least, the reverse UG filter. So he was stuck in the bio pellet chamber chamber which I designed so it could not be opened. So I had to take the entire thing apart while squirting water into it to keep the stupid fish alive. Now I have to re-design the surface skimmer to be clingfish proof even though in 15 or 20 years no other fish had decided to take this trip. I got him out and he seems fine but he doesn't care one bit how much work I had to do to take all this stuff apart.
Surface skimmer with floating top so it just skims the surface
Bio pellet chamber where fish was stuck.
Surface skimmer with floating top so it just skims the surface
Bio pellet chamber where fish was stuck.
