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demolitionlover
02-05-2005, 12:12 AM
I just added a saddleback to my 7 gallon tank which has 2 yellow tail blue damsels. They were doing okay.. but then I came home today and noticed he had nipped the tail of one of my damsels. I don't want to, but I am gonna have to give him to the local pet store. Im so bummed. I guess I might try to add a goby or a jawfish when my damsel is back in shape and healthy.
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Liquidcfour
02-05-2005, 12:22 AM
7 gallon?
demolitionlover
02-05-2005, 12:41 AM
Yeah a 7 gallon. You might think its small but I once had a successfull reef tank in that 7 gallon.
Once? = sucessful?
What happened?
Two damsels,let alone two and a clown fish (even two and any fish),is just not going to work.
petcrazy213
02-05-2005, 9:48 AM
I was going to say ... what are you thinking? 7g? How long ago did you have the reef in there? You would have to do waterchanges so often ... and you put 3 fish in there? I've had a saddleback before myself and he wasn't happy in my 40g so I can only imagine how unhappy those fish must be in a 7g. Why such a small tank? I don't think you should be putting ANY fish in that size tank, maybe a tiny goby but that would be about it.
TinaFishGirl
02-05-2005, 10:24 AM
I just added a saddleback to my 7 gallon tank which has 2 yellow tail blue damsels. They were doing okay.. but then I came home today and noticed he had nipped the tail of one of my damsels. I don't want to, but I am gonna have to give him to the local pet store. Im so bummed. I guess I might try to add a goby or a jawfish when my damsel is back in shape and healthy.
:( :( :( :(
I have a ten gal and I had three damsels in it, so it is possible to put fish in it. I would't put more than three in there though. If the par. don't go hay wire you'll have a problem with real-estate, resulting in aggression. You said you had a reef in your seven, I have seen a reef in a one gallon, so I know you aren't trippin, but they don't produce the waste that fish do. If you add a jawfish your damsels will probably go after him. Damsel are pretty aggresive. Since you have to go small maybe you should think of dotty backs, jawfishes.....umm or somthing else that stays really small.
demolitionlover
02-06-2005, 3:53 PM
I have a ten gal and I had three damsels in it, so it is possible to put fish in it. I would't put more than three in there though. If the par. don't go hay wire you'll have a problem with real-estate, resulting in aggression. You said you had a reef in your seven, I have seen a reef in a one gallon, so I know you aren't trippin, but they don't produce the waste that fish do. If you add a jawfish your damsels will probably go after him. Damsel are pretty aggresive. Since you have to go small maybe you should think of dotty backs, jawfishes.....umm or somthing else that stays really small.
Thank you... it is possible. Very possible. The reef in a 7 gal. is the easiest thing to do. I recently moved and all my coralin algea got distroyed. So I gave my friend everything in it to see how he would do. I figured I would try to have just a small salt watertank. It was working till i added that **** saddleback. Ohh well. Thanks for your input. Obviously your the only person in this post that is helpful at all. : )
TinaFishGirl
02-07-2005, 1:03 AM
Thank you :)
mogurnda
02-07-2005, 10:20 AM
Two fish larger than neon gobies in a 7 is too many. Three territorial species in a 7 is simply bad judgement. Normally I try to stay non-judgemental, but some ideas are simply not good ones.
Her post was helpful as she sided with you. But keeping an invert or reef only tank is one thing. Adding fish to a 7 gallon tank that are aggressive and territoialand get far too large for a 7 gallon tank is not a good idea.. But if you think you can do it I am sure you will so good luck.
petcrazy213
02-07-2005, 5:47 PM
demolitionlover ... you wanted advice, I gave you MY advice. I didn't say you had to take it and I didn't say you had to like it, it was MY advice, MY opinion of the fish you had from MY experiance with those kinds of fish. I don't think I was negative or rude to you, I just told you what I thought. I'll thank you to keep you negative attitude towards advice given (since you seem to ONLY have wanted to hear certain things that's your business) to yourself and not PM nasty remarks to me anymore because you don't like what you heard. Sorry. It's hard to tell one's demeaner over this type of communication so sorry if things sound harsher then they are.