wastememphis
02-12-2004, 7:47 PM
Alright,
I have two gold stripe maroon clowns, a 3-4" one (Damien) and a 1-2" one (Hiccup). They are a mated pair, who are making nests to possibly lay fry. The problem is they love the long tenticle anemone. About 2weeks ago the anemone lost a fight to the filter intake and I thought it was dead. I put it in a hospital tank for a night to see if it was moving, it was. I put it back in the 29gallon tank since I couldn't give it medication and anyway I have power compacts on the 29gallon. The anemone is damaged, BUT ALIVE. It's been doing better every day. It was hard to get to eat, but after about 5days I hoaxed it into eating shrimp. Then he was hard to feed for 4days, couldn't hold on to it because its tenicles aren't strong and becuase my CLOWN FISH LOVE IT AND WON'T LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A SECOND. So when the anemone isn't eating and is just being ravaged by the clowns, while they make they're nest... its just being pushed all over the place to the clowns liking, and I know they're going to do that, but I want my anemone to heal so it can at least stand up without being knocked over like it is now. He did climb across the tank and go on a rock last week but that was the extent of it. Sooooooooo I bought a in tank refugium... its great, I think its 8" x 3"x8" aprox... big enough for my anemone, it has a power head in the side and crushed coral... since the sand was being blown out. So the anemone is in this thing, the clowns can still see it... without bothering it, its closer to the lights, it ate the first night... all is good. NOPE!!!! About twice a day since i got it (2days ago) Hiccup has been in the refugium. I told you, stupid problem... the refugium is under an 1/8th of an inch below the water line, its recomended so there isn't a water mark on it after water evaporates and junk. Anyway Hiccup would have to jump almost out of hte water to get in there, but I have a glass lid so I don't know how hes doing it. All I know is that I have to take the anemone out sometimes with Hiccup sleeping in it and put it in the tank to put the anemone back in. But this isn't good for the fish or the anemone, the long tenticle anemone has been doing so much better even in the last two days with this and I'd like for him to heal all the way before the fish go nuts. Hiccup is small so it doens' tmove the anemone around but Damien just stares in it and I'm sure he doesn't like that. Sorry this is long, any ideas on what to do??? My aneomne eats in this thing so I don't want to keep him out of it till he heals.
I have two gold stripe maroon clowns, a 3-4" one (Damien) and a 1-2" one (Hiccup). They are a mated pair, who are making nests to possibly lay fry. The problem is they love the long tenticle anemone. About 2weeks ago the anemone lost a fight to the filter intake and I thought it was dead. I put it in a hospital tank for a night to see if it was moving, it was. I put it back in the 29gallon tank since I couldn't give it medication and anyway I have power compacts on the 29gallon. The anemone is damaged, BUT ALIVE. It's been doing better every day. It was hard to get to eat, but after about 5days I hoaxed it into eating shrimp. Then he was hard to feed for 4days, couldn't hold on to it because its tenicles aren't strong and becuase my CLOWN FISH LOVE IT AND WON'T LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A SECOND. So when the anemone isn't eating and is just being ravaged by the clowns, while they make they're nest... its just being pushed all over the place to the clowns liking, and I know they're going to do that, but I want my anemone to heal so it can at least stand up without being knocked over like it is now. He did climb across the tank and go on a rock last week but that was the extent of it. Sooooooooo I bought a in tank refugium... its great, I think its 8" x 3"x8" aprox... big enough for my anemone, it has a power head in the side and crushed coral... since the sand was being blown out. So the anemone is in this thing, the clowns can still see it... without bothering it, its closer to the lights, it ate the first night... all is good. NOPE!!!! About twice a day since i got it (2days ago) Hiccup has been in the refugium. I told you, stupid problem... the refugium is under an 1/8th of an inch below the water line, its recomended so there isn't a water mark on it after water evaporates and junk. Anyway Hiccup would have to jump almost out of hte water to get in there, but I have a glass lid so I don't know how hes doing it. All I know is that I have to take the anemone out sometimes with Hiccup sleeping in it and put it in the tank to put the anemone back in. But this isn't good for the fish or the anemone, the long tenticle anemone has been doing so much better even in the last two days with this and I'd like for him to heal all the way before the fish go nuts. Hiccup is small so it doens' tmove the anemone around but Damien just stares in it and I'm sure he doesn't like that. Sorry this is long, any ideas on what to do??? My aneomne eats in this thing so I don't want to keep him out of it till he heals.