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As long as it takes until established fish quit acting aggressive toward them.
What is the longest you have kept a fish in an acclimation box?
That's what I use.The largest kritter keeper works.
I had a small hippo tank , little bigger yellow tank and I added a purple tang. My small hippo tang started biting off the yellow tang and yellow ended up death.I made the mistake of thinking 1 day was enough with a recent addition, a Chevron tang. I thought that everything was fine to put him in the tank, but that was a HUGE miscalculation. I have a purple, yellow, sailfin, 2 blue tangs in my tank. Also have a pigmy and flame angel. The one fish that brutalized the Chevron was the pigmy angel. Once that happened, the PT steps in and helped out. So now I am leaving the Chevron in the fish trap in the tank as long as it takes. I do feed it in the fish trap so now just have to wait it out. Will never add a smaller fish directly to my tank ever again. Not even a big one honestly.
I had/have ich in my system, but never is a major problem unless I introduce a new addition. I will always use acclimation box going forward. Was always a survival of the fittest type of guy, but I don't want to see expensive fish just get beat to hell and die on me either.
I had a small hippo tank , little bigger yellow tank and I added a purple tang. My small hippo tang started biting off the yellow tang and yellow ended up death.
my question ,I got a new yellow tang now and it’s even litter bigger than purple ,i added him to the tank and purple was so aggressive as well as my small size hippo, im keeping him in the acclimatization box ? Do you think any chance he will make it to do tank back ? Or should I return the yellow tang back to LFS?
I would go with the starcki in the box, rearrange the rocks whilst the damsel is in the box then let him free after a few days. I would be careful, eventually the clown will try nip at you when you try and work in the tank. Mine started this habit yesterday… never before had she nipped at me but yesterday when moving a rock around she went at me. If you have a venomous fish in the tank you may drop the rock in fear (I have a foxface in my tank so thought I was close to the spines - He was on the other side of the tank but I didn’t process that). This is because damsels and clownfish fall under the same family.Sorry to bring this thread back... but
I have 3 fish (Clown, Royal Grammer and a Starck Damsel) in a Waterbox MP 25. The Starck is being a real j/o. Constantly picking on the RG and even the Clown gets chased.
If I was to get a box, should I toss the Starck in the box or the RG who gets most of the attack?
Thanks!
Gaspare