HELP ME i need to sort out my tank :O

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  1. Atmos

    Atmos Astrea Snail

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    -100+ brittle baby star fish. 1 giant green one.
    -1 mandarin dragonet
    -1 lawnmore blenny
    -1 maroon clownfish
    -2 orange clowfish
    -2 blue damselfish
    -1 shrmip, 1 peppermint shrimp
    -3 snails, 2 turbo snails
    -7 hermit crabs (3 blue, 3 red leg, 1 vacuum crab)
    -2 tiger cowries (Cypraea tigris) Family: Cypraeidae (for sale)
    -4 feather dusters
    -??? common bristleworms
    -almost no aspasia <<killed regularly
    -1 Sailfin tang
    -1 Arrow Crab 6-8"
    -1 Sandsifting Starfish

    -1 hard coral polyps
    -2 green star polyps
    -3 actinia equina anemones (2red, 1pink)

    its a 90gal mh lighting (800+w) with LR and LS 2 protein skimmers, sump, fans

    so i need to sort this out i dont know whats compatible with what the maroon clown and orange clowns are getting along. aside from that my crabs have been eating my live seasifting starfish :( so i need to make changes. also i have a few black long spiked sea urchins on the way...
     
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  3. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    Your Maroon is getting along with "Orange's"????????????????? Either the maroon has got to go or the "oranges'"...can't have both....... Also, you need to decide which is more important to you and your tank, the sand sifter star or the crabs? I'd say the crabs gotta go, the star does more for you. I'd get rid of the green one and it sounds like the 100+ are getting out of hand. Urchins are cool. How many are on the way.

    How are your parameters??
     
  4. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    well to start out your maroon may kill your percula clownfish when it gets older.
    im worried that your brittle stars may be starving and may try to catch fish. as 100 is alot if there not the micro brittle stars
    the green ones have been known to catch fish even when it has plenty to eat
     
  5. Atmos

    Atmos Astrea Snail

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    the brittle stars are the baby small ones that live inside the rocks. (id say probably the micro ones that hitchike) i could make the big one go but its pretty cool looking and i havent had any troubble with that im sleeing all the clownfish because im getting 4 black ones. it looks like ill be gettin rid of the crabs but does the arrow crab kill sandsifting starfish too? because i need him to finish killing the brittleworms :(
     
  6. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    i would watch the clown you getting also as the pair of oranges(perculas) may not except the extra black(assuming there percs too). if the others arent juvis there will definitely be a problem. as a clown family is set up as, one male, one female(the boss), and the rest are unsexed juviniles.

    since your maroon isnt a perc it will become a female regardless(which is when things may turn bad).

    your arrow may eat the sand star but i think its more likely to take a swipe at your clowns. so once the worms are gone i would take it back.
     
  7. Atmos

    Atmos Astrea Snail

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    alright. there are still a bunch of bristle worms and the starfish is dead so it became food. :( what a waste of money
     
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  9. Ishymishy77

    Ishymishy77 Peppermint Shrimp

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    Is it even possible to have blck clowns with the perculas? From my understanding only one species should be kept otherwise they fight to the death.
     
  10. Dr.Fragenstein

    Dr.Fragenstein Panda Puffer

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    Black clowns can be many things... Could be a tank raised ocellaris that has been bred black, it could be a very dark sebae clown, I have seen very dark lazonatus clowns as well, if you have a black ocellaris it will be fine with other ocellaris, but if it is one of the others, then yes, most likely they will fight...
     
  11. cdeboard

    cdeboard Montipora Digitata

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    Hmm... how well do sebae get along with maroon?
    LFS (not the good one, the other one) sold me a clown stating it was a tomato.. but it turned out to be a maroon... I have two sebae clowns
     
  12. Atmos

    Atmos Astrea Snail

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    they mind their own business i have them all sold this wednesday :)
    would an actinia equina fight with a Heteractis crispa ?