OmarD
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(also posted at 3Reef.com)
(Hey Eric/Johnathan, hope you see this!)
This is so I am almost embarrassed to post it. Has taken me three days to do so.
Following my 3 day "lights out" experiment (which was a total bust as far as I am concerned)...took another 3 days for my colts and leathers to fully extend again & I was missing my blue hippo tang.
No sign of her about tank, I have a full canopy, so she could not hop out. Hermits were acting normal and spread about tank, not disappearing if there was something dead in tank.
Sooo, I thought, maybe she leaped into one of the twin overflows ("All-Glass" 125.) Pulled the canopy off, & holy s#@t I could not believe my eyes...
There, swimming around happily, were two perc clownfish...mature female & a little male.
When first moving to my 125 gal 4+ years ago, I went thru a couple different sets of juvenile clowns...a pair of Ocellaris, which beat themselves to death...a pair of percs (which disappeared )...and finally a pair of juvenile maroons, which have matured nicely over time, regularly laying a clutch of eggs every 8-10 days.
So for 4 plus years the percs have been living in a very dark walled home, getting enough light and food to survive.
In my excitement I grabbed a net and "fished" them out and put them in the main tank.
They never had a chance. The damsels attacked from the right side and the Maroon clowns from the left. Not even the Coral Beauty could defend them.
When I could not stand the sight anymore, I once again netted them (easy, as they were pretty well exhausted from being chased around tank.) And then returned them to the overflow.
If they did alright after all that time, they can live there happily ever after.;D
(will check on them when ever I remove canopy - couple of times a year to change bulbs)
Here a pic of them being chased about tank....
PS...I put a little food in the overflow now every time I feed.
PSS...the tang was in the other overflow (am going to have to use the fishing line/hook trick on her...she is not about to be netted.)
(Hey Eric/Johnathan, hope you see this!)
This is so I am almost embarrassed to post it. Has taken me three days to do so.
Following my 3 day "lights out" experiment (which was a total bust as far as I am concerned)...took another 3 days for my colts and leathers to fully extend again & I was missing my blue hippo tang.
No sign of her about tank, I have a full canopy, so she could not hop out. Hermits were acting normal and spread about tank, not disappearing if there was something dead in tank.
Sooo, I thought, maybe she leaped into one of the twin overflows ("All-Glass" 125.) Pulled the canopy off, & holy s#@t I could not believe my eyes...
There, swimming around happily, were two perc clownfish...mature female & a little male.
When first moving to my 125 gal 4+ years ago, I went thru a couple different sets of juvenile clowns...a pair of Ocellaris, which beat themselves to death...a pair of percs (which disappeared
)...and finally a pair of juvenile maroons, which have matured nicely over time, regularly laying a clutch of eggs every 8-10 days.So for 4 plus years the percs have been living in a very dark walled home, getting enough light and food to survive.
In my excitement I grabbed a net and "fished" them out and put them in the main tank.
They never had a chance. The damsels attacked from the right side and the Maroon clowns from the left. Not even the Coral Beauty could defend them.
When I could not stand the sight anymore, I once again netted them (easy, as they were pretty well exhausted from being chased around tank.) And then returned them to the overflow.
If they did alright after all that time, they can live there happily ever after.;D
(will check on them when ever I remove canopy - couple of times a year to change bulbs)
Here a pic of them being chased about tank....
PS...I put a little food in the overflow now every time I feed.
PSS...the tang was in the other overflow
(am going to have to use the fishing line/hook trick on her...she is not about to be netted.)
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