We've Got Fish!!!!
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Your gonna have to do something soon. It is not healthy having them both in that small of a tank. The stress of them all together can cause some of the things your supposed to be preventing in QT.
It's your call on which fish, but this is just me.. I would put one of the blennies in your 75G tonight. I don't think I have ever heard of a lawnmower getting ich. Not saying it couldn't happen but I have never heard of a sick lawnmower.
It's your call on which fish, but this is just me.. I would put one of the blennies in your 75G tonight. I don't think I have ever heard of a lawnmower getting ich. Not saying it couldn't happen but I have never heard of a sick lawnmower.
Well I'll have to wait for tomorrow just because Ash is a sleep and I'm not waking her up for that. I'm up all night so i will keep an eye on them and see in the morning.
If it were me, I'd keep the bicolor for now as it is more passive in my opinion. (although my lawnmower has never been aggressive but I don't have 2 blennies) I'd take the others back. You can house them all together in the 75 most likely but better to have the passive one in first and since your QT is so small sounds like you'll need to stick to one or two fish that will have a better tendency to get along.
My experience definately differs greatly from the ones I am reading. I have never seen my lawnmower act aggressive in any way. My only issue is my polyps it likes to pick at, other than that it is a great peaceful fish.. bi-colored have been a completely different story. I tried one before I bought my lawnmower and was extremely mean towards other tankmates and xenias. It went back within a couple days and I traded for the lawnmower. My neighbor has tried 2 bi-colored, no other blennies, and both times they were 10x more aggressive than his yellow tail damsel. It would chase even his purple tang into a corner and bite at it.
I am not saying my experiences are the norm or anything, I really have no idea what the "norm" is with those fish, just my few experiences with them have not been good ones at all.
I am not saying my experiences are the norm or anything, I really have no idea what the "norm" is with those fish, just my few experiences with them have not been good ones at all.
We have bigger problems now. When I got up this morning the Yellow watchman was missing. I opened the top and he was in the strainer in the middle chamber. So I just pulled the strainer and dumped him back into the main tank. I thought that one of the others chased him and he jumped over by accident. I watch them for a while and I see the watchmen swim to the top stick his head up out of the water and come back down. No one was chasing him and then he did it again. Then he goes to the bottom and gets a running start and jumps into the inlet chamber. Now i have to get him out of there so I try a plastic spoon seeing that I can't get my hand in there. I tried a few times and couldn't get him. I try one more time and the little %*%()#($ wiggled down the corner under this grate. Now I have to get the grate out. I get the great out and I still can't get him. Now figured I would try and suck him out with a clear 1" ID hose. Well that was the next mistake. I didn't notice that when I sucked out that chamber that all the tanks water was going with it which would be that big of a deal if it wasn't for the heat being out of the water. By the time I notice that it was to late. I went to grab the heater and pull it out and it exploded in the tank where the other 2 fish are. Glass falls into the tank. Now I'm freaking out and upset for the lack of a better word. :mad2: Now I have to get the other fish out of the main tank and put the rest of the water - the glass into a bucket with the fish.
OK I know this is long but I have to get this out so I'm sorry for running on. Now I have to take everything out of the tank and rush to get the Watchman before he runs out of air or water or what ever. I had to flip the tank on it's back and and try and scoop him out with a spoon. It wasn't that easy but I got him out and into the bucket. I clean out the tank and put it all back together again. I put the water and the fish back in to the tank and this time I cut a strip of filter floss over the back chambers so when the lid is closed they can jump over the wall and get back there.
So that was my day so far. Oh yeah Ashlee had to go out and get a new heater. I have to say that the heater is suppose to shut off when out over water or so they said that it would. Well it didn't and Ashlee called F&S and they are sending a new one for free.
Other than that they don't seem to be chasing each other any more so i think after all this we are going to keep an eye on them and see what happens. If they start chasing again then we will bring back the Lawn mower.
OK I know this is long but I have to get this out so I'm sorry for running on. Now I have to take everything out of the tank and rush to get the Watchman before he runs out of air or water or what ever. I had to flip the tank on it's back and and try and scoop him out with a spoon. It wasn't that easy but I got him out and into the bucket. I clean out the tank and put it all back together again. I put the water and the fish back in to the tank and this time I cut a strip of filter floss over the back chambers so when the lid is closed they can jump over the wall and get back there.
So that was my day so far. Oh yeah Ashlee had to go out and get a new heater. I have to say that the heater is suppose to shut off when out over water or so they said that it would. Well it didn't and Ashlee called F&S and they are sending a new one for free.
Other than that they don't seem to be chasing each other any more so i think after all this we are going to keep an eye on them and see what happens. If they start chasing again then we will bring back the Lawn mower.
