Holly

Welcome!! Keep the pics coming! =)

I was feeling particularly punny this morning

Tres magnifique! Got any more shots? I'm clammering for more photos..!

It's no wonder the clam's OK with it - I hear bivalves go either way. (And he mollusk like your clown very much!)

Well, you know, that type of work is kinda dicey... (whistle)

Looks great! Congrats!

Sorry it took a day to reply Dave... You have a PM.

Thanks! PS That's my fav Sinatra quote EVER!

I need to sell a 12g Eclipse System because we're moving and I just had a baby so we're too busy to mess with it. I've had it about a year. I'm selling the whole shebang: about 10# LS about 10# LR (nice coralline) 1 MJ 1200 1 firefish heater in-water thermometer a few small hermits a couple of shrooms 50/50 Actinic/10K lamp that's only a few months old a new in-the-box extra replacement lamp 8 unused replacement carbon filters (if you wanna run carbon) No stand I never put on a fuge, sump, or little skimmer but ran it as-is. It has scratches on the front inside (a cleaning gone wrong) that'll need to be removed. It also needs to be cleaned (has algae on the acrylic). I haven't cleaned the acrylic recently because I knew it had to be broken down to sell it anyway. Whoever wants to buy it will have to come break it down to take it and do so soon since we're soon outta here... We live in Salmon Creek. I paid $160 for the Eclipse, $8 per bulb, $7 per 3-pk of filters, $20 for the MJ1200. I'm selling the whole thing with all the stock and extras for $100 since it's scratched. 'Don't want to break it up and sell off pieces because I need it all out of here for the move. You can respond here or PM me... 'Thought I'd list it here before putting it on Craigslist. Thanks! Holly

I do mine from 10-6 and bracket it with actinics for 2 hrs on both ends and I do fine. I'm with Andy- if your stock looks good, it's fine! Happy Bunnyday everyone!(clap)

*warning sirens* Don't do a 6-line! I was almost relieved when mine disappeared mysteriously. I'll never get another one, and my tank is 180g. They're 100lbs of mean packed into two inches of fish! (scary)

I've only ever found ONE cadaver of a fish that died in my tank and I've had many disappear forever. (Well, not many but quite a few.) All else have just vanished into thin air. I've theorized what everyone else is saying--that the clean-up crew devours the fish as soon as it dies and you just never see the bones. Like jadams said, clowns are very territorial. Heinously so. I had a pair of clarks and the male died, so I put in another smaller one (a smaller one in a group at the marine shop), and she chased it non-stop until it 'disappeared' forever. A week or so later, I added another smaller one. She dive-bombed him, too, for about 2wks, but he managed to survive. Eventually she accepted him, but it was a longggggg ugly process. I wouldn't give up entirely on acclimating another fish to the one you have, but there might be some collateral damage before you land the right fish to withstand the pressure long enough to be accepted by the resident one... Good luck! I'm with the rest of the folks. The smaller ones were prob chased to death and eaten by the cleaners.

Wow Cool! Here's a pic of sea hare eggs from google image search. Looks like that might be it..? http://www.seafriends.org.nz/enviro/habitat/f025832t.jpg

Diet? How so? The tank gets mostly mysis with a little bit of spiru-enriched brine each evening, plus their romaine for nibbling (which the clowns usually don't touch, of course). I also occasionally feed little cut-up pieces of silversides too. What else should I be doing? ... This is the first spawn for this pair. My male of the original spawnings mysteriously died in early Dec so I got another little clark for her around Xmas. The female hatefully dive-bombed him nonstop from across the tank for the first 8 days (I thought he'd die from the stress) and then it took another 7 days before she allowed him to share one end of her anemone with her. Almost two months later, they finally laid this first batch. Seemed like a long transition time but he was a tenacious little bugger

I'm sure they won't make it even if they DID hatch. My tank is kinda "survival of the fittest" and I don't have any way to remove the big rock they're on to try to relocate them. I was just hoping to enjoy the maturation process... I like watching the male harp over them. More than half of the eggs disappeared today, I just noticed. Not sure what's happening to them. The pair are very territorial and I haven't seen them letting anyone get near their area, so maybe it's the clowns themselves that're pecking at them..? My tank vasillates between 77-79 usually... Thanks for the info -8 days. I'll remember that, in case they lay some more!

How long for clarkii eggs to hatch? My pair laid eggs overnight last night... Online I read "6-11 days" but that seems like a really wide spread. Thanks!

maybe the cardinals enjoy being licked (whistle)

I love that little gobie!

Tunzes are 'spensive but they kick(censored). I have 2 in my 180g (plus 4 Rios, a Sieo, and another pump behind the rocks). Tunzes provide SERIOUS current, and Andy's right about the mounting--with the magnetic mounters it's a breeze and you can move them anywhere. Just my 2cents IMO I'd put SPS in the top 1/2 of the tank. Mine flourish in the top 1/3 of mine (which is 24"D and has 750MH & 624W Actinic03s), and they also seem to like a fair bit of direct current... Good luck!

We reside in Vancouver WA (Salmon Creek) but do all our "living" in Portland. Portland's THE BEST But I'm a originally a Hellalabama native--ROLL TIDE!! Been to Eugene a few times...seems like a nice, easy-going place with great peeps =)

Since Fenner didn't say if it was fungal, viral, or bacterial, I emailed back and asked if he had any more specific ideas and he responded : Bacterial.

My sister bought it for me, so it was new. I was going to add a thing or two to the tank anyway, and she offered to buy it for me as part of my Christmas. The Copperband was the addition. We happened to show up at Saltwater FantaSeas when they received their shipment, so the Copperband was never removed from the shipping bag he arrived in. He never even touched FantaSeas water. He looked fine when we got him but a day or two later we noticed the darkening bump forming under his dorsal fin, so I assume he was probably already infected when the distributor shipped him to Portland (not that they knew necessarily). He was the same size as my yellow tang and the tang perceived that as a threat, so the tang harrassed the Copperband ceaselessly. I'm sure the stress of being chased constantly probably hurried the infection along. I should've thought to get a small Copperband, as our tang seems to ignore smaller fish. *Another lesson learned* I was told when I got him that the shipment came from a distributor in Los Angeles CA.

Thanks Joel - good to know. Bob Fenner DID respond to my email. He said the following: with a veterinarian in your area? Please have them contact me through this email address. A shot or two of Chloramphenicol might save this animal... but I am dubious. Bob Fenner> I've been shopping around for UV or ozone to use periodically as a cleaner/preventative (not because I had any particular issues prior to this one) but I haven't gotten it yet. It's a good idea probably. Thus far the rest of the main tank is going along great as usual,and no signs of any issues. *knock on wood* Thanks guys

Good luck! Have a good time with it! The setting up of a new tank is soooo much fun =)

RIP Copperband. Thank god his misery is over. It looked like he committed fish suicide. He'd crammed his entire nose straight down into the sand all the way up to his eye and his body was sticking up vertically with the tail up: "Goodbye cruel world!!!" (Side note: A full-grown copperband doesn't really fit down a standard toilet(whistle)) I hope that's the end of the killer alien infection(scary)