New coral - fish issue...

Discussion in 'Soft Corals' started by Froc3, Oct 22, 2008.

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  1. Froc3

    Froc3 Fire Goby

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    Well, after checkin all params a few times last week with everything checking out perfect i bought a few large frags off of a local reef keeper. GSP and a couple leathers. Everything has opened up slightly and looks pretty healthy, other than one leather they are all showing good signs in terms of color. My problem is my clown fish. He seems to think they're anemone food... He's been pulling small pieces off the frags out of the elastics and trying to feed them to the anemone... how can i stop this?
     
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  3. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    glue the frags to a larger rock, the clown cant pick up

    not a very good answer i know, but its the best i could come up with
     
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  4. PharmrJohn

    PharmrJohn The Dude

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    Wow. Tough one. My clown never moves far from the anenome.....Try moving the frags to one end of the tank and the anenome to the other. Best I can do.
     
  5. ziggy222

    ziggy222 Fire Goby

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    you could try giving it some large food it can feed to the anemone.
     
  6. Froc3

    Froc3 Fire Goby

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    Well, my anemone isn't that big... maybe the size of... i dunno .. i guess... a smaller cell phone.. it wont even bother with larger food.. he got stuck in a powerhead so i had to cut him down to size.. these frags he's taking are about the size of the clown fish..