Clown Fish evicted by damsel

Griffin · #1 08-06-2004, 04:03 AM

My damsel has evicted marlin and nemo (can you guess my daughter named them) from a our first BTA- are they not covered by a renter's agreement so they can have it back. This is my first salt tank - daddy daughter (6yrs old) project - and wanted to say thanks for all the posts. Makes life alot easier with reading what others have gone thru.
If anyone in the Vancouver area has anything live for sale please feel free to pm me - it's a 65 gal plexi with approx 50lbs of live rock (thanks to Dougtheslug - great rock bud - thanks a ton) 2 clownfish, BTA and some damsel's - looking to bare though - i will have some pic's up soon. Anything for sale out there??
Have a awesome day everyone.

Rich

Quinn · #2 08-06-2004, 04:17 AM

Welcome to the board.

Damsels are fairly well known to be particular brutes. You may be forced to remove it, which can be difficult. Is the damsel living in/around the BTA and fighting off the clownfish, or is the damsel just plain picking on them?

Generally an anemone in a one month-old tank is perilous. Please keep us updated on your progress.

I'm not a father, but I think sometimes you have to ignore the "daddy, daddy".

Griffin · #3 08-06-2004, 05:21 AM

They seem to be having a power struggle who is going to win but i can solve that - the tank is split with two 6" tubes joining the two sides so with a couple of nets he will be gone to a new home. LOL on the daddy daddy - i said no to the " Please can we get dori too" not at the current dollar value. Lets make sure all is going to live first - The tank is not young, my buddy gave me a up and running tank right down to many buckets of the water that we had to siphon out. The BTA is happy no matter what - he loves small chunks of prawn (how many times a week should i give him that). We are looking forward to years of ups and downs but loving every minute of it

ed99 · #4 09-01-2004, 04:30 AM

I was just reading some old posts and saw that you had a question hanging here. I feed my BTA a small chunk of prawn every second day and it is doing well for it and has grown some after shrinking for awhile (I wasn't feeding it enough). As for Dori, I would suggest leaving her until you have a much bigger tank. Blue tangs grow up to about 12" so 6 foot tanks or so are generally recommended.

Ed