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They were only actually agressive day one the blackice grabbed the snowflake as soon as I dropped it out of the bag and tried to swim around with it in its mouth this lastes about 1 second and then the reverse happened and then the blackice did the twitching move and they went on their way. The snowflake has never bitten the other clown since, it just rushes up to the other at random no agression while eating. Just seems to me like the snowflake is checking the blackice. Im concerned because the blackice is growing faster than the snowflake. Used to be that the snowflake was 2x the size of the blackice not the case anymore.

There hasnt been any significant quarrels since day 1 the snowflake likes to swim really fast up to the blackice every once and awhile 

Twitching has to do with showing dominance or submission. My blackice does it practically everyday. 

Im under the impression that my clowns didnt pair they dont behave like what ive seen with mated pairs. Or how id expect either

I got my first clown a blackice clown back on the first week of june and the second a month later a snowflake clown about 2 times the size of the blackice.

Well now 2 months later the snowflake is using the bta the blackice is not they sleep on opposite corners of the tank they are both the same size now the snowflake still bickers at the blackice and the blackice still does the twitching move back.

Im just starting to think I might need to separate them before things go bad or is this all in my head? Everyone of my fish is in qt right now and their behavior is all the same 

Ive been testing biweekly since month 2 im on month 3 now. Nitrate and phosphate were pretty steady at 16ppm nitrate and 0.08 phosphate, up until my nitrate spike I then just slowly worked it down to what it is now

Nitrate 16ppm

Phos 0.04

Temp 78

Salinty 36ppm

Redsea test kit

Just got my nitrates back down after a big spike 64ppm and 0.08 phos as well

I also have a fist sized chaeto ball in a acclimation box in display as well

9 hours ago, reefbandit said:

I’ll check in a bit but I think I have what your looking for it’s either a 15 or 20.  Should still have an upgraded sicce return pump.  How’s $75 sound

Not trying to hijack but is it 15 or 20 gallons? 

Bummer I work weekends!

Glad you had a good trip !

All my fish snack on them all day to the point they have been eating less daily. Had me worried that there was an issue but close observation showed that they were eating practically all day even after lights out they were hunting. 

Anyone else have a huge population of these guys?

  Also it seems alot of people call them copepods? But they do not at all resemble the copepods I added.

What kinda pump do you use for the di stage?

Alright since I just realised that ive givin no information.

I have a 4 stage 150 gpd brs rodi system my input tds is 174tds out of the membrane is 2-3 tds 

Im on well water 

Iron is 4ppm

Hardness is 9gpg

Ph 7

I go through a resin refill in about 250 gallons of water

Has anyone made a degassing chamber for their rodi? Im burning through di resin really fast

Bummer I work weekends ! Glad everyone had a good time!

Only 4 more years until their current patent is up if they dont get an extension. 

20% off on brs. Just sharing! 

Yeah I also did but their shipping was 120 bucks for 5 of them lol 

In search of some. Not sure if we have any local breeders.

It will be for eradication. I plan to personally qt all fish that go into my larger tank and just want to be setup as good as I can be.

Say hi to march from fragbox! For sure 

Should I even bother with salifert copper test or just get the hannah? Im setting up my qt right now. And other than prazi/copper power/metro and formalin or ruby is there anything I should be trying to get ahold of?

Okay I have a few smaller nice pieces of dry rock that I wanted to put some plug holes in.

On 8/2/2022 at 9:06 PM, islandVib3s said:

Use a stepper drill bit, it drills into acrylic better than a regular drill bit.less chances of cracking.

When drilling dryrock do you use masonry bits or standard bits ?

Yes this is for my 20g aio. I havent tested a fresh batch of salt yet. Though that would be good to do. Actually all three bags of salt I have are from different batches after looking

There is a donate option of adopt a coral where is was explained that you would be sent a frag from the gbr with an rfid tag it was explained in a livestream from reefbum with one of the guys running the organization.