Why do we feel the need to constantly upgrade and add things to a system that is pretty much perfect in the first place? Our 30g has been up and running for a few months and everything was going dandy, hell the mandarin we put in there is fattening up. So our Picasso clowns started to host our frogspawn and this worried us a bit as we know they can be stung by frogspawn and the fish can damage the coral. So what do we decide to do remedy this situation? We bought a bubble tip anemone. What was the convoluted reasoning behind this? We wanted to give something to the clowns to host and get rid of the frogspawn.
So I come home from work today, check the tanks and turn on the lights in the thirty and then go play softball. When I came back I noticed the BTA had moved down closer to the middle of the tank near the frogspawn so we moved the frogspawn out of the tank and into the twenty. I noticed that my older and prettier Picasso had been stung that left a nice sized mark. Don't know who did this, but betting the frogspawn when the BTA got to close. The fish is doing better now and ate tonight so this is good. But when I fed the tank I noticed our cherub angel was missing. So we pulled out most the live rock to no avail. The BTA got a very expensive beautiful snack the first full day in our tank. I wish I could say I was being magnanimous in doing this but I am not that kind to BTAs.
So we are now zero for three with angels. We lost a flame to ich, another flame to we believe a mantis shrimp (was doing excellent then had mysterious marks on him and died), and now our third has become a snack. This was a fish we felt great about getting because it was beat up in its holding tank and we brought it back to full health. I must be part demon if I am killing so many angels.
I guess the moral to the story for those still reading is LEAVE YOUR TANK ALONE WHEN IT IS DOING FINE.
UPDATE: Was just topping off the tank with some RO, which we do in the fuge to not overly shock the tank and found the cherub angel dead sucked into the skimmer powerhead. So we are still zero for three with angels, but this might be on his stupidity not mine. Who knows.
So I come home from work today, check the tanks and turn on the lights in the thirty and then go play softball. When I came back I noticed the BTA had moved down closer to the middle of the tank near the frogspawn so we moved the frogspawn out of the tank and into the twenty. I noticed that my older and prettier Picasso had been stung that left a nice sized mark. Don't know who did this, but betting the frogspawn when the BTA got to close. The fish is doing better now and ate tonight so this is good. But when I fed the tank I noticed our cherub angel was missing. So we pulled out most the live rock to no avail. The BTA got a very expensive beautiful snack the first full day in our tank. I wish I could say I was being magnanimous in doing this but I am not that kind to BTAs.
So we are now zero for three with angels. We lost a flame to ich, another flame to we believe a mantis shrimp (was doing excellent then had mysterious marks on him and died), and now our third has become a snack. This was a fish we felt great about getting because it was beat up in its holding tank and we brought it back to full health. I must be part demon if I am killing so many angels.
I guess the moral to the story for those still reading is LEAVE YOUR TANK ALONE WHEN IT IS DOING FINE.
UPDATE: Was just topping off the tank with some RO, which we do in the fuge to not overly shock the tank and found the cherub angel dead sucked into the skimmer powerhead. So we are still zero for three with angels, but this might be on his stupidity not mine. Who knows.
