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we have a 720 litre marine tank. 2 400w metal hallide lights. when you look at the clams from the top of the tank the colour is completely different when you look at them through the glass. a brown/blue clam through the glass and the top is brown/green. a mauve colour through glass and the top...

I thought that might be the case with the sailfin. The dumbo at the fish shop said they would be fine with the sailfin. When I picked the fish up, they were in the tank with a sailfin and they seemed fine but when I got them home that was it. I will know now. Maybe they were caught and put in...

:( I have a sailfin tang (zebrasoma) which I have had for a while and we added 2 poor mans idol (heniochus) to our tank yesterday. As soon as they were put in the sailfin started to nip at their fins and therefore stressing them out and eventually they died. He was really having a good go at...

OK! This is what I have done. I rearranged the tank around the anenomes. I bought some LR today and boxed them in so they won't spread out as much. Now both of them look like skateboard ramps. Actually the tank looks much better. It took forever to do it. Thanks everyone for replying.

I haven't moved them yet. I rearranged a few things in the tank away from the anenomes, but the thing is, when they shrink the room they leave looks so empty. I'll look at them tomorrow and make up my mind. Eventually they will have to be moved because they are TOO BIG. My 9 tank raised clowns...

Thanks heaps. I'll give it a go.

I have 2 Ritteri? anenomes. They are massive. 40 to 50cm across. They are in the middle of the tank and I would like to get them out and put them closer to the bottom because they are taking up to much room where they are and also stinging my corals and clams. Any help would be appreciated.

I wouldn't worry to much about what anenome you buy because 4 months ago I bought 10 tankraised clownfish (percs) and I was so worried that they would not go into any of our anenomes. We have nine and I don't know any of their names but after 1 month 5 of them went into 1 anenome and then the...

I thought i would let you know that five of my 10 clowns went into one of our anenomes today. I am totally rapt. I couldn't stop watching them just swimming in and out of it. I had been dangling a prawn over the anenome over the past 2 weeks and I think that did the trick. It made my day. Now...

Thanks very much for replying and I do hope it all works out. Now I can spend $400 on myself instead of giving that guy my money. By the way, we have a sailfish and he has been swimming through the anenomes. Strange!! Thanks heaps.

I like the idea of the clowns in an anenome. Like I said earlier, we had 6 brown clowns and they went to every single one. The anenomes I have ( I think ) are a mixture of Bubble Tips, Sebae and Heteractis magnifica and/or Ritteri. I can't be 100% sure. They all look the same to me. I rang the...

Now that I have 10 clowns that might not go to the anenomes, what happens to the anenomes? Do they just survive on their own? They are very healthy at the moment but I am a bit worried because I thought that clowns looked after them.

We have a 160 gallon (750litres) tank and we've had that 1 year this November. We were told to take our time in filling it up but we could not help ourselves and now it is full of all sorts of goodies.

Hello! Thanks for the advice. I hope they will find the anenomes. They just look lost without them because our other clowns just loved them. The reason why we lost so many fish is because we had filter problems. We went away for 3 days and everything was rosy and we came back and they died...

Hello! I bought 10 clownfish(Ocelaris) 2 weeks ago which were tankraised. We have a huge tank and at the moment we have 8 anenomes which I don't know the names of. My question is will these clownfish go to these anenomes or will they not bother because they were tank raised. We lost 15 of our...