Fish - May 2007

Do clownfish sleep in their Anenomeas?
I have a marine tank with
*3 Damzels
*1 Anenomea
*2 clownfish ( the smaller ones)Tamato i think or the oposite
Anyway When and Why do Clownfish go into their anenomea i got myne today and they havnt gone in it yet it is by the filter nozel but nothingcan get sucked up or caught in it because it is a special kind of nozel and can yu just give me info on how they react and stuff and anything about damzels i have 2 that are yellow with a blue stripe on the top and one that is all blue with a diffrent shade of blue spot on his tale

Additional Details

14 minutes ago
Oh it isnt a tomato one it looks like this just not so bright cause they are not verry old
http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/climatekids...

7 minutes ago
This is what the anenome looks like but with pink dots on the tip i have a 34 litre tank its very good great setup http://www.wetwebmedia.com/cnidarians/an...

2007-05-05 22:09:54 · 6 answers · asked by K.Wilson 1

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2007-05-05 17:22:10 · 2 answers · asked by sprstud6969 1

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2007-05-05 17:10:40 · 5 answers · asked by pi_fan2004 1

2007-05-05 16:30:25 · 3 answers · asked by mildura_ozy 1

I have 2 tanks, a 30 gallon for my reef/fish tank, and a 10 gallon for my sea horses and sea pipes a.k.a pipefish. Sea horses and sea pipes come from the same family, and are closely related. They have the same snout, and the males also carry the babies like the male sea horses do. About an hour ago my sea pipe gave birth to about 50-75 fry (babies), so i quicky shut the filter off and hooked up the bubble boxes (airators) so the fry dont get sucked in the filter. Right away the adult sea pipe started to go after the babies and eat them. Because of this I took my 2 adult sea pipes out of the tank and placed them in the other. Now it is only the fry sea pipes and the adult seahorses. I have read on several different websites that sea horses do not eat their own fry, but does anyone know if the sea horses will eat the fry of the sea pipes? I have watched them closely and they dont seem to be interested in eating them, but has anyone ever heard of them eating sea pipe fry? Thanks

2007-05-05 16:29:33 · 2 answers · asked by xsweetemptashnx 2

i bought a female beta a few days ago and she doesn't seem to want to eat. She doesn't seem to like the beta pelets even after i crushed them so that they were small enough for her to eat. i fed her some goldfish flakes. will it harm her? she spit them out again but i don't know if it was just too big or just that she didn't want it. I'm also wondering if i can put her in with my two goldfish. the tank is only a 1g and it has a bubbler. I'm wondering cause i once read that they don't like a bubbler and I'm also wondering if 1g is large enough for 3 fish.

2007-05-05 16:06:42 · 5 answers · asked by Heidear 1

I think I have about a 55 gallon tank. I want to create a lake or a river tank. I want to have fish in there from canals or lakes. Right now I have some oscar and blue gill in there.

What else do you think I should get?

2007-05-05 16:03:03 · 6 answers · asked by Michael 2

fish tank to start out with I have plenty of room, but I dont want to get something toooo large that I start hating to clean it. And about how many fish should I put into one tank?

2007-05-05 15:56:55 · 6 answers · asked by Simply Fabulous! 2

I have a 29 gallon tank and originally had 2 gold gouramis in it. Today I added a dwarf gourami, 2 kissing gouramis, and 2 other gouramis w/black spots(can't remember the name @ the moment). One of the gold gouramis has been very aggressive from the beginning to the other gold gourami. Now it is aggressive to everything in the tank, even the one that is bigger than it. It doesn't actually hurt any of the fish, but it seems that all of the gouramis are forced on one side of the aquarium because the aggressive one goes after anything that comes on the its side. Sometimes the other gouramis dart at each other too, but not near as much as the gold one. Is all this chasing by the gold one going to stress them out or is it just normal territorial behavior?

2007-05-05 15:55:50 · 7 answers · asked by Smiles 3

2007-05-05 15:50:54 · 6 answers · asked by David M 1

I just got back from my vacation and my next door neighbors were watching my gold fish.When I got back I noticed that on my goldfishes nose there is this white bubble like thing there and there is a little red.What is wrong is it normal??!!??

2007-05-05 15:46:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Our betta died yesterday, and we replaced him with a Crowntail betta. We had been feeding our betta about 4 pellets a day, usually all at once. We have recently been told that he should be fed 4 pellets throughout each day. Other people say it should be 4 pellets every 2 days, and different combinations thereof. What do you do to keep your betta happy and healthy? Thanks!

2007-05-05 15:36:01 · 10 answers · asked by lizardmama 6

2007-05-05 15:06:04 · 14 answers · asked by JJ 2

Well not too many details, just heard from a fish store that I could leave the sand in and it was actually better too to avoid killing the stuff living in the sand. Do I trust this persons opinion... nope so im asking here. Is this a sure fire way to crack my tank or is this a doable method (would be much easier). Technicle info:
Tank-75 gallons (4 by 1.5 by 1.5 feet)
Sand-60 pounds
Manufacturer-All glass
Let me know you all are batting a thousand.

2007-05-05 14:51:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently rescued a black moor who lost its eye (thanks to a petstore overcrowding the tank) and I would like to make its life as comfortable as possible. Any suggestions??

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2007-05-05 14:31:36 · 3 answers · asked by Richie 3

2007-05-05 14:22:09 · 5 answers · asked by Derchin 6

my fish are really sick looking. the one has a really bad what looks like a bacterial infection in it's tail and is really skiddish and acts like it is hurting him--when he swims by the bubble maker thing.

the other ones have red infection things at the base of all their fins and their fins are all scraggly and gross.

the newest fish, a few weeks ago addition, is the healthiest looking but i think it may have brought the illness

they all hide below the bridge and i don't want them to die because i ve had them for about a year and 1/2

the vet said to treat the water with salt (whole process) but does anyone know what they might have (fin rot is a possibility) and if there is anything else i can do?

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We have set up a marine tank with live coral and rock. Initially 2 chromis and a tang. Introduced an algae sucker and two more. Changing water every weekend because of algae growth. Took sample to aquarium, did what we were told...nitrate and nitrite is correct. One chromis died during week - did anothewr water change and dipped them all in fresh water for 20 seconds as per instruction from aquarium. Found clown fish dead this morning (awww)....other 3 are not feeding as usual, very slow, lethargic...what to do, can anyone help?

Regards Vikki

2007-05-05 12:31:53 · 5 answers · asked by Vikki H 1

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