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02-27-2008, 03:22 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 24
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 |  Lesson Learned
Just got back from the LFS where I acquired a baby Neon Goby, got him all acclimated....released, and BAM Diamond Goby chased him down  and slurped him up.  I'll just have to make sure I get a much larger one in the future.
Lesson Learned! _________  55 gal All-glass
760w MH
Remora Pro HOB skimmer
Rena 55 Smart Filter & Heater Combo 3 Zebra Dart Fish, 3 Yellow-Blue Damsels
3 Skunk shrimp, 1 Blue Neon Goby
1 Sailfin
50 lbs Live Rock
2 Frogspawn
1 Colt Coral
1 Pulsing Xenia Colony
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02-27-2008, 03:29 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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OH no man that sucks! I gotta laugh though sorry but, the way you put it...... Did you name it Dinner before you dropped it in?
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02-27-2008, 03:35 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Jersey
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Wow, I never acclimate the food before I drop it in Karma to you for going the extra mile.  | |
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02-27-2008, 03:35 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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That does suck...sorry for your loss. putting two gobies together is definitely taking a risk especially in a smaller tank... _________ 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
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2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
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02-27-2008, 03:39 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 24
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Originally Posted by BaxterS80  That does suck...sorry for your loss. putting two gobies together is definitely taking a risk especially in a smaller tank... | Yea I've actually seen these two particular Goby's doing just fine together the problem I had was not taking into account the #1 rule of fish tankery. If one fish can fit in another fish's mouth prolly not a great idea. | |
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02-27-2008, 03:44 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Sorry for your loss dude, Karma _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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02-27-2008, 04:03 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Originally Posted by Crabby Jim Wow, I never acclimate the food before I drop it in Karma to you for going the extra mile. | Oh man, thats cold, funny but really cold!
Sorry about the loss, and yeah I know all about that rule and not paying attention to it... I had a spotted grouper once, about 8" long. Saw the prettiest little shrimp one day, just had to have them...
Bought 3 of them set me back 75 bucks. Took them home, acclimated them and feed the tank while waiting, figuring it would make them less likely to bother these little beauties. Got out the net and captured all three and dropped them into the tank...
Whoosh, a flash of white and black went by and bam! two shrimp gone in a wink of an eye! he turned around eyeballed the third as it sank to the bottom and whoosh he flies by again.. but this time he missed!
It took me 3 days to take all the rocks out, find and remove that little shrimp and return it to the pet store, All this after I moved "spot" to a 59 cent plastic bucket with holes in it floating at the top of my tank, actually left him there for a few days wondering how he would taste! _________ I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.
Every morning is the dawn of a new error.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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02-27-2008, 04:09 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Myerstown, PA Age: 21
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...sorry for the loss...I used to have an orange pike cichlid in my FW 75gallon cichlid tank, he was the same way, had to get rid of my green pike that almost ate the orange, anything he could swallow was toast, he'd eat 6 feeder goldfish in 10 minutes. and he was one of the fastest fish I have ever seen
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02-27-2008, 05:00 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Minot, AFB Age: 24
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Thanks everyone, it is always hard to lose that first fish. I'm sure it won't be the last. Again thanks all | |
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02-27-2008, 08:31 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Hey bud, sorry for your loss, it really hurts when you go to all the time and effort to find, buy and acclimatise a fish that you would really like to have in your tank, only to have it die... or eaten in your case. Dont forget about the survival and predator/prey instincts of marine fish.
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