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02-13-2008, 04:53 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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   |  Firefish
I picked up a firefish this past weekend and was considering another...I have read mixed information about keeping more then one. Some say yes, no problem others say only if they are a mated pair. Anyone have experience keeping more then on? The firefish is in an enclosed 24 gallon _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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02-13-2008, 05:08 PM
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| | Millepora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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should be fine!! they're harmless fish!! _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
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02-13-2008, 05:32 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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 Am concerned about compatibility with this calm and passive fish with your other "busy" critters.
Definitely would wait while before getting another until you see how this one does.
Good Luck. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
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02-13-2008, 05:33 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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They might get along initially but if you end up with two of the same sex, they will most likely fight to the death. Happened in my tank so I only keep one since I don't know how to sex them. | 
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02-13-2008, 05:34 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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they are dangerous when you intriduce one at a time and they become territorial.you gotta do it at the same time so they wont gain an advantage over the other.thats as best i know of it. | |
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02-13-2008, 05:40 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Cool, I am gonna just go with the one...I have learned with other fish that it is always wise, for the most part to just keep one of the any family..I had a horrible experience when I tried to introduce a fairy wrasse into our display tank where we already had a sixline who was one of the first occupants of that tank... | |
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02-13-2008, 05:42 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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who won the battle? i bet the sixline cuz i got one too.lmao | |
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02-13-2008, 05:54 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Newtown, PA Age: 20
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6 lines are nasty. _________ 120 gallon mixed reef, 30 gallon refugium, two 250 watt Phoenix 14K DE metal halides in Lumenarc stealth reflectors, Two 48" T-5's in TEK II reflectors, AquaC EV-120 protein skimmer, Mag Drive 12 return pump, one Hydor Koralia 4
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02-13-2008, 05:57 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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mines is calm as hell he hasnt tried anybody in the tank.infact the sixline and the goby share the same burrow.i think its pretty cool. | |
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02-13-2008, 05:58 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Oh Yeah, the sixline....It was less then 24 hours and I had to pull the fairy wrasse out and put her in another tank. If she was in the display tank any longer she would have died...The sixline is docile and has a great personality....He does not bother any other fish in the tank... | |
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