Tank size/Fish compatibility

Aquattro · #1 06-15-2013, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

I don't buy the bit that this fish just dies for no reason

Have you kept a powder blue? I've gone through probably 8 of them over the years, they like to die. It's their thing -lol The one that I bought "used" lived, but turned into a major bully and had to be removed to save my Achilles..one of the more difficult fish, IMO.

kien · #2 06-15-2013, 03:49 PM

I too have had lots of PBTs in my time and it has also been my experience that PBT are very fragile fish. You may get lucky and find one that is more robust than most, but generally speaking they have a bad track record for long term survival. We could solve this by doing up a poll though :-)

As for your tank size, those are great dimensions Adam! Looking forward to your tank journal

reefwars · #3 06-15-2013, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

Have you kept a powder blue? I've gone through probably 8 of them over the years, they like to die. It's their thing -lol The one that I bought "used" lived, but turned into a major bully and had to be removed to save my Achilles..one of the more difficult fish, IMO.

yes and mine didnt die for unknown reasons it starved.... pretty simple to determine why that happened, im sure there are good reasons why the fish dies when it does but because of the fishes nice baby blue color it attracts alot of people who dont know when a fish is starving , sick or infected so when the fish dies its unknown.

i never said this fish was for beginners but i also dont buy it that they just up and die in mass numbers for unknown reasons either.

out of the eight you had i bet most of their deaths was explainable