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ScottF
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How thick is your glass? I have the Biota PNWCustom box and a Reefing Art box. Neither one stays in place very well with my 3/4" glass. I have to prop them up with my magfloat.
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My fish all seem to still be alive so far. There was some fighting between a yellow and the hybrid when I first woke up. I put some food in and it seems to have calmed down for the moment. They all seem to be swimming together looking for more food.
They were fighting all night until I went to bed. Even with the tank lights off. Not sure if they kept it up after I turned off the room lights.
I woke up to the wet side of one of my MP40's in the sand with a broken off blade. Luckily I have extra wet sides. My TridentNP is reading 30 NO3 instead of the normal 6 and My pH dropped to 8.05 instead of the normal 8.15 over night.
I'm wondering if one of my cats knocked the dry side off jumping on to my net cover and pee'd in the tank or something. I'm hoping the NO3 reading is a testing error. My corals don't seem unhappy at the moment.
When it rains it pours.
They were fighting all night until I went to bed. Even with the tank lights off. Not sure if they kept it up after I turned off the room lights.
I woke up to the wet side of one of my MP40's in the sand with a broken off blade. Luckily I have extra wet sides. My TridentNP is reading 30 NO3 instead of the normal 6 and My pH dropped to 8.05 instead of the normal 8.15 over night.
I'm wondering if one of my cats knocked the dry side off jumping on to my net cover and pee'd in the tank or something. I'm hoping the NO3 reading is a testing error. My corals don't seem unhappy at the moment.
When it rains it pours.
Keep them fed. I have 10 tangs 8 in one tank two in another. JMO but a hungry fish is an aggressive fish because they stay in fight to survive mode. I feed multiple times a day. Two heavy feedings and I toss pellets in off and in as treats. My tank with two has zero aggression. The tank with 8 I get nothing more than an occasional tail smack usually one sided and from my purple.
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I would print out a picture of another tang and tape it to the glass. With how many you have maybe print out a couple. I’d use a pic of the ones that look like they’re instigating the most. Print it out so that it’s about the same size as they are.
Maybe at least then they’ll fight with a fake fish instead of beating up a real one. Works really well for my rude purple tang.
Maybe at least then they’ll fight with a fake fish instead of beating up a real one. Works really well for my rude purple tang.
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ScottF
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Yeah. I try to make them fat and lazy. I feed frozen twice a day and TDO from an autofeeder twice a day. I also have a clip on each side of the tank. One with purple nori and one with green nori.
My fish definitely aren't hungry fish.
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I may need to try this. I did stick a hand mirror to the side of the tank this morning with a magfloat. I think there is a tiny gap between the glass of the mirror and the glass of the tank though because of the mirror frame. So I'm not sure if it's working. None of the fish seem to be paying any attention to it.
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It seems like the hard core aggression has run it course. Hopefully all of the fish are OK. Things had really calmed down even before the hybrid noticed the mirror on the side. Now he is just tail lashing the crap out of the side of the tank and the yellows seem to be leaving him alone.
The fish seem mostly OK. The little vlamingi has some white on the top of his dorsal fin. It doesn't look like ich to me. Maybe a bacterial infection. He seems to have lots of energy and is eating well. Hopefully whatever it is clears up.
Next time I'm going to wait a lot longer before releasing a fish into gen pop. Even if they do appear to be stressed out by the acclimation box. I need to get a big piece of PVC or something to put in there for shelter.
The fish seem mostly OK. The little vlamingi has some white on the top of his dorsal fin. It doesn't look like ich to me. Maybe a bacterial infection. He seems to have lots of energy and is eating well. Hopefully whatever it is clears up.
Next time I'm going to wait a lot longer before releasing a fish into gen pop. Even if they do appear to be stressed out by the acclimation box. I need to get a big piece of PVC or something to put in there for shelter.
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The new comer is half powder blue, half gold-rimmed. He has been going hard at the mirror for two days non-stop until the lights ramp down. I guess he can't see himself when the lights start to ramp down. Then he goes over to the middle of the tank where the yellows sleep. Followed by some mild violence between him and the yellow tangs.
Hopefully it will sort itself out before there are any deaths.
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And people said the hybrids are supposed to be more chill than the full PBTs… lol. Demon fish!! Hopefully they take a chill pill. Tang drama is so irritating to watch!
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I was hoping it would be more mellow than a full PBT. It's a cool fish though. When it was stressed in the acclimation box, it looked almost like a full PBT. Very light blue with white dorsal and anal fins.
Once I released it into gen pop, it immediately darkened up. I hope it chills out. It's a really cool fish.
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I have two acclimation boxes. The one in the picture is a Reefing Art. The long magnet in the picture is from my other acclimation box because the two magnets on this one aren't strong enough for my 3/4" glass.
It comes with dividers. So you can have up to four chambers in it. I also like that there are square holes in the lid that are exactly the size of a PE Mysis cube. Makes for easy feeding.
Amazon product ASIN B09XHC6JC8
My other box is a PNWCustom from Biota. The build quality is much better on this one and it can be used as a fish trap, but it is slightly smaller.
https://shop.thebiotagroup.com/products/custom-biota-acclimation-box-pnwcustom
The magnets on neither on of these boxes does well with my 3/4" glass. I usually need to put my magfloat under them to prop them up.
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Thanks! Appreciate the info on both.
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