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04-03-2009, 12:42 PM
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Little Fishy
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What Do You Think?
Ok im planning on the fish selection for my FOWLR.
Its a 55 with 11 gal sump and so i wanted to know what everyone thought about my fish selection if its to much?
2 Clownfish
1 Flame Hawk
1 Potters Angelfish
1 Christmas Wrasse
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04-03-2009, 12:50 PM
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spaceman spiff
 
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should be fine. which clowns are you interested in? the flame hawk may be a bit aggressive, but overall the fish list is reasonable.
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04-03-2009, 01:09 PM
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Little Fishy
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Well i was thinking about two Percula Clowns.
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04-03-2009, 10:30 PM
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spaceman spiff
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Quote:
Originally Posted by quick_murdoc
Well i was thinking about two Percula Clowns.
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those are pretty benign, a good choice. Some of the other choices (such as the Tomato or Gold Stripe) are rather territorial and can be very aggressive, so they don't always make the best addition to smaller setups, but the perculas should be fine.
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04-03-2009, 11:24 PM
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Shark
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Are you planning on keeping any shrimp like peppermints, cleaners and such? If so, you may want to skip the hawkfish.
The Ornate wrasse will also need to be watched with inverts.
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04-04-2009, 09:50 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jadinop
Are you planning on keeping any shrimp like peppermints, cleaners and such? If so, you may want to skip the hawkfish.
The Ornate wrasse will also need to be watched with inverts.
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He said FOWLR.
I'd put in the Hawkfish last because he is the most aggressive of them all!
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04-07-2009, 11:41 PM
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Shark
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So nobody puts inverts in FOWLR's. No cleaner shrimp, hermit crabs or snails? That's news to me, I thought it simply implied no corals.
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04-08-2009, 09:23 AM
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spaceman spiff
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jadinop
So nobody puts inverts in FOWLR's. No cleaner shrimp, hermit crabs or snails? That's news to me, I thought it simply implied no corals.
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I often assume the same thing, and I don't think either way is implied by simply stating FOWLR.
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04-08-2009, 11:57 AM
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Little Fishy
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Well to be honest i am a little on the fence about the hawk. I had one before and he was one of my favorite fish to watch, but i know that i wont be able to add any crabs or snails. 
Plus im thinking that if i decide to go to a reef later he would be a pain to try to catch.  |
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04-08-2009, 12:51 PM
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spaceman spiff
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flame hawk won't touch snails or hermits, it's ornamental shrimp that you have to be worried about. and even then, I have a flame hawk in my mixed reef tank with 4 shrimp and it's never been a problem.
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04-08-2009, 01:09 PM
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Little Fishy
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So is it sort of a guessing game then? 50/50 chance that he will or is it because you have a larger system?
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06-23-2009, 02:23 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Clownfish help
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Originally Posted by crvz
those are pretty benign, a good choice. Some of the other choices (such as the Tomato or Gold Stripe) are rather territorial and can be very aggressive, so they don't always make the best addition to smaller setups, but the perculas should be fine.
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Can anyone help me I have seen two beautiful tomato clownfish at this fish store and I asked if I could have them and he said sure but I just remembered I have two common clownfish tank bred and I asked if they would fight and he went to check in his book and he said the tomatoes would beat the **** out of the common is this true but I also have a bubbletip anemone that's right under the big common clownfish home euphillya coral would this be a problem waiting to happen can you tell me please 
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07-01-2009, 02:37 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dodge250
Can anyone help me I have seen two beautiful tomato clownfish at this fish store and I asked if I could have them and he said sure but I just remembered I have two common clownfish tank bred and I asked if they would fight and he went to check in his book and he said the tomatoes would beat the **** out of the common is this true but I also have a bubbletip anemone that's right under the big common clownfish home euphillya coral would this be a problem waiting to happen can you tell me please |
the tomatoes would still fight the common clowns because there isnt a way for them to hide or stay away from them tomato clowns just dont get along with other clowns
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07-01-2009, 02:39 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by quick_murdoc
So is it sort of a guessing game then? 50/50 chance that he will or is it because you have a larger system?
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its probably more of a guessing game because if you had a 100 gallon tank and you had food at one end and you did the same thing with a 50 gallon the result would be the same it would get eaten so it probably depends on the fishes personality or what not
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