I've been watching two Longfin Phantom clowns at my lfs (4-6 weeks). They were in their main display reef tank. They were always around each other with minimum cause for concern.
They bagged them together and it was about 3-4 hours before I got home. In the bag they def were rough with each other and specially if watching them. Covered them for a while to make it dark and they did calm down a bit. Rough I mean full out tumble wrestling ( I am not finding marks on the fish or destroyed fins)
Drip acclimated them for 1 hour last night in the same bucket together. Some aggression but nothing like they were in the bag. I have the largest eshopps acclimation box they are in now. I have 3 small pvc pieces in there for them to hide. The larger of the two is extremely active while the slightly smaller one is trying to hide. Every time that slightly larger one sees the other one its an all out war for what seems like last forever.....
Question is......go ahead and release them in the DT...give them room to spread out? (Theres a Wrasse and Purple tang which are also both very young) they will be meeting. OR split them up in the acclimation box for a little while?????
Overreacting or reason for concern?!!?
They bagged them together and it was about 3-4 hours before I got home. In the bag they def were rough with each other and specially if watching them. Covered them for a while to make it dark and they did calm down a bit. Rough I mean full out tumble wrestling ( I am not finding marks on the fish or destroyed fins)
Drip acclimated them for 1 hour last night in the same bucket together. Some aggression but nothing like they were in the bag. I have the largest eshopps acclimation box they are in now. I have 3 small pvc pieces in there for them to hide. The larger of the two is extremely active while the slightly smaller one is trying to hide. Every time that slightly larger one sees the other one its an all out war for what seems like last forever.....
Question is......go ahead and release them in the DT...give them room to spread out? (Theres a Wrasse and Purple tang which are also both very young) they will be meeting. OR split them up in the acclimation box for a little while?????
Overreacting or reason for concern?!!?