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Posted: April 24 2011 at 3:56am |
My flame angel started nipping at my acans and bothering some of the SPSs. Is there any way or ways to subdue this fish?
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Posted: April 24 2011 at 4:30am |
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Have you tried algae sheets?
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Posted: April 24 2011 at 9:04am |
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Yes, I agree. Give it all kinds of algae, especially allowing it's favorite soft algae to grow by feeding more, or removing some snails, or not scraping the algae off of one side of the tank.
Also, fish training works, using a stick or a bright light to scare it away when it even just looks wrong at a coral.
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Posted: April 24 2011 at 12:59pm |
I will try it, but the problem is the Blue Tang is chasing off the Flame when I put the algae sheet in. Putting a stick next to the Acans now, the fish is swimming away. Hope this help.
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Posted: April 24 2011 at 3:51pm |
Use the stick to scare away the Blue Tang. You have to show all your fish who is boss. The other day I was cleaning a friends tank. I had never had my hand in this tank before. She was totally surprised to see Big Mama Clownfish stay completely away from me. It's an 18 year old 5" Maroon Clown. Also, you could put Nori in two places at once on opposite sides of the tank. The Blue Tang can't easily control both locations. 
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Posted: May 08 2011 at 2:00pm |
I tried the methods suggested but still having problem with the Flame bothering the Acans. Any other suggestion?
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Posted: May 08 2011 at 7:27pm |
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You could bring it to my house and I will give it back after I have trained it. LOL
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Will work for frags.
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Posted: May 08 2011 at 8:38pm |
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I guess I am the negative one. Once a fish finds out that coral is good, you are doomed. Rarely do they break the habit. Unless you are home all day it will nip when you are away.
That is the risk with keeping an angel.
As hard as my uncle tried to get his fish stop, they still went through at least $5k in corals before he figured out that the fish were the problem.
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 10:48am |
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Ryan, can you tell us what your Uncle did to get it to stop? Like what he did, for how long etc?
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 10:57am |
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Ryan, can you tell us what your Uncle did to get it to stop? Like what he did, for how long etc? |
Yeah, he tore apart a 350 gallon tank and got rid of the fish! LOL
I know he fed Nori really heavy for a while. I don't know exactly what he did to fight it but he eventually just got the fish out. He originally pulled out of all his top LPS pieces and put them in the sump. The fish just moved onto different corals when he would do that.
They loved the $400-$500 scolymias!
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 11:04am |
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So he didnt really try anything but just pull him out?
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 11:10am |
disneymania wrote:
So he didnt really try anything but just pull him out? |
I am not totally sure what he tried. I know that for months he couldn't figure out what was wrong with the tank. All parameters were great but things kept getting worse and worse.
He had Brad from The Aquarium even try to figure it all out and it took some time.
Next time I talk to him I will ask him about it more.
It was more than just one fish. It was two or three tangs, a potters angel and some other herbivorous fish.
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 11:22am |
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Thanks Im just curious as to what didnt work so I dont waste my time if I have a problem.
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Posted: May 09 2011 at 2:31pm |
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I used Mark's fish training technique (modified version) and it has worked. My coral beauty was nipping at my SPS corals and every time I saw her go close I ran over and waved my hand next to the tank like a crazy person. It worked. Now she doesn't bother them at all. HA, I also feed a little more and add algae sheets to the tank, so maybe that helped too. Either way, she stopped and life is good again.
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