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Anyone here have a reef tank? want to see some pics from mine?
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I've got a badass Elegance Coral that's been healthy and growing for nearly a year now. It's gotten so big my Clownfish have began messing with it more than their anemone which scares me a lot. I dont want them to kill it or contaminate it with anemone venom. I dont have a digital camera though so no pics :(
>> Anonymous
I've never kept an anemone with a clown that didn't kill it.
How does you does it?
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>>216972
Hard to get pics of my clown. He gets hyper and leaves where he hosts when the camera comes out. Your clowns probably wont kill the elegance. My clown hosts my frogspawn and it is fine for over a year now. If the toxins the Anemone naturally releases into the water are not bothering anything then the minimal amount in the clowns slime coating will not bother the elegance. What is your system setup?
>> Anonymous
>>216976
How did your clown kill it? I have seen clowns nurse them back to health. Anemones are tough to keep because they are very sensitive to stress and water quality. Also many have their foot damaged in trying to remove them from rocks and it is almost impossible to recover from that.
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>>216980
He borderline raped the damn thing.
Tore a hole in it.
>> Anonymous
>>216983
You get the right species? Different clowns go with different Anemones. sorry to hear that though.
>> Anonymous
The Elegance and anemone are right next to each other. They dont seem to be bothered by it (well I'm sure they're chemical fighting constantly but they're both healthy). They're both in a 20g tank and despite the cramped quarters everything gets along well.
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>>216986
WOW a 20? the first pic is a full tank shot of my 20H. I would love a bubble tip in there but I think it would outgrow it for sure.
>> Anonymous
>>216988
the anemone in the 20g is a BTA. It's over a year old now, once it out grows the 20 I have a 75 it can go into. I should probably just move it there now but I'm too lazy to take apart the rockwork to find where the BTA's foot is. I'm very protective and paranoid about the Elegance since these days its so hard to find a healthy one. My 75g has a Deresa clam and an Acropora colony growing very quickly in it so I'm sure the conditions in their are alright... I'm still scared to move the elegance though.
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>>216989
have you seen this article? http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-01/eb/index.php
I don't have a larger tank to move things to, so I envy you.
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>>216990
oh wow that article is incredibly interesting. Also, bad cameraphone picture time! Here's my Ebli's Angelfish and Deresa Clam in the 75g man that fish is camera shy!
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here's the 20g a few months ago
>> Anonymous
>>216997
Any clam tips? That is in my top 3 choices for my next addition. even with camera phone pics that looks like a nice and healthy tank!
>> Anonymous
>>217021
the 75g is doing pretty well, although I have some brown algae on the sand (the sandbed is very thin so I think it's just a nitrate sink) as for clams the only thing I'd say to do is make sure you give it somthing to root itself onto that you can remove easy. The Deresa is attached to a plastic lid, you really dont want them to attach to the bottom glass, and if they dont have anything to attach to they will be stressed. The 75g has metal Halide lighting which is really nice. Most people recommend MH for clams but I think if you have pretty a pretty intence source from CFs or somthing it shouldnt be a big deal
>> Anonymous
>>217040
I have a 150W MH. Plastic lid is a good idea. I was planing on using a frag plug. What is your feeding schedule like?
>> Anonymous
>>217045
I don't feed any of the invertebrates directly. The fish a fed ocean nutrition formula 1 and 2 pellet foods. Frozen food may be a little healthier but it's so difficult to control portions. All my fish eagerly eat the pellet foods even my Anthias. They even recognize the food cans and can differentiate between the formula 1 and 2 cans (they seem to prefer formula 1 since it's more animal protien but I give them #2 as well for extra greens in their diet)
>> stabby
Your tank is fucking awesome. I've been tempted to start a nano reef, but I think I travel too much :( ...
>> Anonymous
cool. I feed formula 1 pellets too. Cyclopeeze frozen and sometimes mysis frozen. cyclopeeze is like crack for everthing in my tank. was thinking about oyster eggs for the clam
>> Anonymous
I've never fed the clam directly and it's growing very fast (it has a very thick white band of new shell under the mantle). I do have a Refugium so the clam may be getting some nutrition from the micro bugs coming from it. If you get a clam I'd say don't feed it or feed sparingly.