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Old 03-24-2006, 11:45 AM   #16
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Maybe if you did all the waterchanges in the sump this would reduce the queennies stress...
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Old 03-24-2006, 01:16 PM   #17
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I may have to get a tank for him when he gets older.
that might be a plan from what I hear they are one of the more aggressive triggers!
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Old 03-24-2006, 02:19 PM   #18
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Since lights out means they behave or go to bed for you, why don't you save your hands in tank stuff until the lights go out? That is what I do with my tank (not because its aggressive but because they are all scaredy cats). That way you aren't changing their routine. He may still get upset but its less likely to disturb him then during the day.
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Old 03-24-2006, 07:50 PM   #19
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Since lights out means they behave or go to bed for you, why don't you save your hands in tank stuff until the lights go out? That is what I do with my tank (not because its aggressive but because they are all scaredy cats). That way you aren't changing their routine. He may still get upset but its less likely to disturb him then during the day.
This may be an idea, just have to watch my hands in the tank. He will nip at them.
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Old 03-24-2006, 07:51 PM   #20
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and if you are moving rocks around
don't want to squish anybody... I've done it to a fighting conch... sad times
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Old 04-02-2006, 08:29 PM   #21
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or, do the easy approach, drill the sump at its highest water level, and put a valve there.
run hose from there to drain or out the door, bucket whatever.
then from water change barrel use pump with hose over the top of tank, turn on pump..
Make sure if you're putting more water in than the size your draining to that laws of physics still apply.
But, you'll really need to have good flow with this to keep any detritus from building up on the bottom. Otherwise the lack of siphoning the bottom will become a disaster.
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Old 02-03-2007, 03:24 PM   #22
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Purpleback Pseudochromis: Aggressive or community safe?


i recently lost a maroon clown and a domino damsel. when they died their fins were shreded, all of them. i thought it might be a parasite like fin rot. i took both in to the lfs at separate times and talked to 2 different employees each time. the 1st guy told me my snowflake eel was the cause. the second time the other guy told me it was my dottyback because it was the only other living thing in the tank at the time. but i never witnessed any agression by either the eel or dottyback. plus, when the fish died they seemed to be trying to escape from the tank by swimming to the top fast and then becoming weak and floating back to the bottom. can anyone offer me some insight please?
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Old 02-04-2007, 01:27 AM   #23
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I think the eeel wouldve just swallowed these fish. If it was aggression I would suspect the dottyback especially if you are talking about a Bi-color dotty. These are especially aggressive and will fight many times its size.
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Old 02-04-2007, 09:30 AM   #24
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Pseudochromis are mean motors. they were the craze back in the mid-late nineties untill people learned exactly how aggressive they were. pretty fish, but they can pack a temper.

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Old 02-04-2007, 02:00 PM   #25
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wut would be something that the dottyback wouldnt go after? only fish that are alot bigger, like a puffer? im gettin a cleaner shrimp and baby crabs and id like to get atleast 2 more fish. wut would go well with a dottyback when i only have a 10gal tank?
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Old 02-04-2007, 11:05 PM   #26
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in a 10g tank you are stuck with the dotty back only. the tank is way to small to have more than one aggressive fish in there. just think. there are coral heads that would not fit in a 1000g tank. a 10g is not even a normal territory for some of these aggressive fish. there are few fish you can stick more than one of in a 10g tank.

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Old 02-05-2007, 12:56 AM   #27
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I`m sorry...I didnt realize this was a 10 gallon tank. Do you have an eel in this tank?. I may have missed something along the line but if so you will have trouble with this eel very soon IMO. It will polute the tank everyday. You may want to reconsider the live stock...there are a lot of cool smaller fish and symbiotic type animals you could experiment with.
The dottyback will also likely go after any small shrimp/crabs you put in there....I`m sorry if I misunderstand your set up....but it really souns way to small for the plan....Just dont want to see you get too frustrated and loose all your stuff
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Old 02-05-2007, 09:28 AM   #28
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no, i dont have an eel. i was taking care of it for awhile but now my friend has it. all i have is a tank wit a dottyback. unfortunatly, he didnt look good this morning. he hasnt shown any abnormal signs until today; in fact he seemed really healthy and strong. i went to feed him and he was pressed tightly against the top of the powerhead. i shook the powerhead a little bit but he swam back to the same tight position against it. i just did a water check 2 days ago. wut is wrong with him? there is nothing in the tank other than him, a fake plant, the powerhead and the filter. and wuts an IMO?
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have you tested the water lately?

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Old 02-05-2007, 10:03 PM   #30
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yea, everything is at 0ppm or very close. and ph levels are between 8.0-8.3 salinity between 1.022-1.023 (i just checked everything less than 2 hrs ago). but wut i thought was him being weak might just have been him hiding or resting because when i came back from class at 1pm he was swiming around like always. and when i fed him for the 2nd time he ate it all. isnt it weird behavior tho for him to be pressed up hard against the powerhead like that?
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