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How well do lionfish and clownfish go together?

I am setting up a 30 gallon FOWLR tank. I am looking into what I want to stock it with.

Right now, I am almost positive I want ocellaris clownfish. I have always loved those little guys. Besides, they are great beginner fish.

I also have a weak spot for aggressive, poisonous fish. The deadlier, the better. I would have sharks if I had the tank for them. I like anglers, scorpionfish, lionfish, boxfish, I friggin’ love jellyfish, and I enjoy anemones.

I also enjoy symbiosis between marine critters. I want a clownfish for the classic anemone/clownfish symbiosis and I would like a watchman goby and a pistol shrimp for the same reason.

Any other symbiotic relationships y’all know of?

I know that lionfish with eat anything they can put in their mouths. That’s why I want to get a dwarf lionfish. Maybe they won’t have the ability to eat any of my clownfish. I don’t know about the pistol shrimp. I think the goby is supposed to help against that.

I love blennies and gobies but I also want to keep a lionfish. I love those guys just about as much as I love clownfish. I don’t know what to do. Is there a small enough lionfish that won’t be able to eat ocellaris clowns?

How about anglers? I like the orange-banded stingfish. Or just some really small angler. Would that work?

I want my live rock to grow out. Sponges, critters, algae, et cetera. I also want some inverts to keep the algae growth down. Would my other fish pose a threat to them?

Thanks in advance.

Freshwater fish tank has reddish tinge?

I switched to a 10 gallon tank for my goldfish from a 2.5 gallon tank (I adopted him from a family member who kept it in the small tank). I let the large tank cycle before adding him in. I began having problems with cloudiness in the water…I added some fish tank chemical made to clear it up, followed instructions and ended up doing several rounds of the treatment to no success.

Now, my tank has a reddish tinge to it along with being cloudy. I’m not sure if the tinge is just left over from the water treatment (it turned the tank water a florescent pink color when first added), but I have not treated it for over a week and it’s still this murky color and cloudy.

I do partial water changes regularly, have an adequate filter for the tank size…I assume this is some sort of bacterial thing? I don’t know the PH, I don’t have a test kit (I know, I should get one I’ve been meaning to). I’d just like to know what I should buy to treat the water to fix this problem. Thanks in advance.

new fish tank help ?

Hi, my name is Adam and i just got a new 60g tank to put my fish in from a 20g. After filling the tank i put top fin water conditioner and let the heater and filter run for about a day. Then i started to put my new fish in the tank.. i accidentally hit a decoration and noticed tons of baby convicts. I then moved all the fish into my new tank so that they didn’t eat the baby’s. My fish in total are 1 baby Oscar, 3 convicts, 2 African assorted, 2 baby jags, and a pleco. Now about a day later my tank is very clowdy and one of the african assorted looks like he is out of breath and isent moving much. I went out and bought some start zyme by jungle and cloudy clarifier and put some of that in the tank. i also took some gravle from my old tank and put that in. Is there any other suggestion u guys could give me. Or should i move my fish back into the old tank? thanks and sorry about the grammer

foggy water wont clear up, what’s wrong?

my small goldfish just died yesterday, but his water was perfectly clear, all water test results were normal. today i woke up and the water looked like the setting of a horror film, and it’s still pretty foggy now. after i noticed the cloudiness i: did a 50% water change, de-chlorinated the entire tank, added accu-clear, replaced the filter cartridge, cleaned out the filter parts individually, and let it run for about two hours. but the water is still foggy! i want to be putting a black moor in there this weekend but im not sure what killed my other fish. all of the nitires and nitrates were good, as well as the ph and hardness and the kh. could it be ammonia, i dont really know how i would test for that, but i really doubt it was because all other the tests were fine? please help, any reason for the sudden cloudiness? is it safe to put in a black moor?

Ever wanted to annoy someone in the office?

Thanks to new inspiration, this is my new post on annoying people. (Again, sorry it takes a million years to read, trust me, it took a million years to TYPE!!)
By the way, most of my posts are from GetAmused.com

“Hi-lite” your shoes. Tell people that you haven’t lost your shoes since you did this.

Agree to organize the company Christmas party. Hold it at McDonald’s Playland. Charge everyone $15 each.

Ask people what gender they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

Arrive at a meeting late, say you’re sorry, but you didn’t have time for lunch, and you’re going to be nibbling during the meeting. During the meeting eat entire raw potatoes.

Attach a sign that says “FAX” to the paper shredder. Sit and watch to see how many people fall for it.

Bring in dishes that you tried to cook but didn’t turn out quite right as special treats for your co-workers.

Change the message on the company voice mail system. Get “Creative”.

Compose all your e-mail in rhyming couplets.

DARE: Run three laps around the office at top speed

DARE: Ignore the first three people who say “Good Morning” to you

DARE: Skipping is better than walking

DARE: After every sentence, say “Mon” in a really bad Jamaican accent – “Thank you, Mon”

Decorate your office with pictures of Cindy Brady and Danny Partridge. Try to pass them off as your children.

Determine how many cups of coffee is “too many.”

Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

Email your boss the message: I know what you did last vacation.

Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.

Erect a shrine to your favorite sports team, holding candlelight vigils at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. daily.

Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.

Every five minutes, announce (very loudly) that you have to go to the bathroom

Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)

For a relaxing break, get away from it all with a mask and snorkel in the fish tank. If no one notices, take out your snorkel and see how many you can catch in your mouth.

Hang mistletoe over your desk.

Insist that your e-mail address be: “zena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com” (or “thor_god_of_thunder@companyname.com”)

Install a set of buttons and lights in the arm of your chair. Talk into your daytimer.

Make a roof over your cubical out of old soda cans.

Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. “That’s a good point Sparky.” “No I’m sorry I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi.”

Name all your pens and insist that meetings can’t begin until they’re all present.

Come to work in your pajamas.

No matter what anyone asks you, reply “Okay.”

Page your co-workers to call their extensions so they call themselves.

Page yourself over the intercom. (Don’t disguise your voice.)

Put a chair facing a printer, sit there all day and tell people you’re waiting for your document.

Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it “IN.”

Schedule meetings for 4:14 pm.

Send e-mail messages saying free pizza, free donuts etc… in the lunchroom, when people complain that there was none… Just lean back, pat your stomach, and say, “Oh you’ve got to be faster than that.”

Send email to the rest of the company telling them what you’re doing. For example “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the bathroom.”

Send email to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent debate about the direction of one of your company’s products. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement.

Send emails one word (or a few) at a time. end each one with something like, “more to come tuned to your inbox for further developments…”

Suggest that beer be put in the soda machine.

Talk to your mouse as if it is a C.B. radio.

Wait until a co-worker goes on vacation, then relocate everything they have in their office, and move someone else in their place. When they get back act like nothing has changed since they left.

When an a person tells you that they’ll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: “And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?”

When in conversation, no matter where you are in the office, mutter, “I think my phone is ringing” and leave. Go get a coffee.

When IT support sends you an e-mail with high importance, delete it at once.

Whenever anyone comes in your cubicle insist they knock or don’t speak with them. When they knock, ignore them.

While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.

While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in “Palmolive”.

I think my Betta has White Spot!?

A few days ago, I bought a beautiful apricot Male Betta. He seemed very healthy; lively + no sign of any External parasites. I put him in a brand new 9L tank, with gravel, decorations, live plants (elodea and another that has long leaves off it), and a heat lamp, and he seemed so happy!
Just before I went to feed him and noticed very tiny (smaller than 1mm) white raised spots on him! 1.Could he have gotten this from the plants? His water condition was perfect! Tomorrow I am going to the pet store and Im going to buy a white spot treatment and aquarium salt.
2. Can I use them together? (the salt and meds)
3. Do you think he will make it?
Theres not that many, but Im still really worried. I just lost my 2 yr old betta, Squishy, and Im not ready to lose another!
ALSO:
How can I sanitise the net? Because Im doing a complete water change tomorrow and removing the plants. Do I use 1 part bleach and 20 parts water, then rinse very thoroughly?
Also any other info would be great!

How should I theme and decorate a 55 gallon fish tank for African cichlids?

How should I theme and decorate a 55 gallon aquarium for cichlids? What would bring out there color more? I think I was thinking about getting fake coral decorations and maybe things like fake colorful sea anemones. What do you think I should do? I think I’ll get the tank soon.
Link to pictures or videos of your tanks too if you want so I can see how they’re set up. Where do you buy your decorations, and where can I get cheap but good ones.
I decided to get saltwater but thanks for the answers…

Do I need more or less fish for my tank?

I have a 55 gallon tank… I have 75 gal. filter system in it, a heater with an adjustable thermostat, a thermometer that I just put in there, 55 tsp. of aquarium salt, about 30 lbs. of gravel, and fake plants and a large cave-y type rock as decorations.

The fish I have in it are a 4″ pleco, two fully grown dwarf gouramis, two baby gold gouramis (about an inch and a half long each), and three mixed fruit tetras (I’ll admit that I didn’t do any reading on them until after I got them and now that I have I feel absolutely terrible about getting them — they’re very pretty but I’m sad that they won’t live very long or even keep their color).

Do I have too many fish for this size tank? I may return the tetras (I just bought them a few hours ago, put them in my tank, and then read about the horrible way they got their beautiful coloration…) as soon as possible, but I don’t know if I can take them back to Wal Mart. I’m not sure of the return policy on fish.

Or, should I get MORE fish for the tank? I am starting to really like gouramis, and I’d love to get more varieties if I knew for sure that I had the capacity for them. So, if you think I SHOULD get a couple more fish, what type do you think I should get? Again, I’m leaning towards gouramis but anything else that’s pretty and NOT dyed would be loved. I don’t really like small fish, so that’s out.