BTA Anemone Percula Clown - Dilema

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DansMarineTank

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I am in an unfortunate situation, my boss, well my boss's boss (ceo) heard on the grapvine that i keep marine fish and have done for a a couple of years. He calls me to his office and asks if i can help him.

He has a 30G tank with a couple of i think pecula clowns (could be ocellaris) been in there a week hes just from what i can tell a long tenticle BTA. He asked if i could the clowns to live in the Anemone as thats what his kid wants.

So i went over there and first assesed his tank, i told him his lights are inadequete (standard 40 w t8 )and his tank was nowhere near mature for that anemone i wont even attempt an anemone in my year old 40. He told me : "thats not important can you get the clowns in there"

They weren't paying any attention to it when i got there but i think i have arroused their suspision i cut a lifesize picture of a clownfish out and stuck it to the glass very close to the anemone, i also changed the power head configuration a little to try to get the Nem to open up a little. i fed the new some squid when i was there and he took it!

Now they are swimming around and around it brushing up against it a little and then swimming off?

Am i near to getting the job done?

P.S will do my best to puesade him to get some more watts over that tank, and research a bit more before his next purchase!
Is it now a waiting game?

Some more tank specs for reference hes got about 40LB of live rock ( not much life on it a shallow sand bed, hes running a protien skimmer (prism) and a canister filter.
 

mysis

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Hosting doesn't always happen, but it sounds like you are getting close, what are the parameters of the tank? And i would suggest T5, MH or Power Compacts.
 

DansMarineTank

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Suprisingly ok, Ammonia 0 Nitrate 0 Nitrate 5ppm SG is at 1.025

I will drop him some lighting sugesstions, after all the tank will look alot better under better lights, I have 2 55 Watt pc's over my 40 i think he could squeeze something like that under his hood
 

mysis

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Well the only problem is the lighting then, ohwell i suppose it could be worse.
 

mysis

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LOL, good idea, just go "cough cough promotion!", or "cough cough christmas present!" both are good ideas, just make sure if he get's you a christmas present tell him you want a 8ft tank, 3 250 WATT MH, ASM skimmer, and so on...

LOL :)
 

DansMarineTank

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Dec 13, 2004
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Good news i popped round at lunch (at bosses request) and the little male was sleeping in the corner of the Nem! I am not sure how much of it was my influence but i of cause claimed credit ;-) i have reiterated that it wont live long with those lights!
 
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