Well...I started with a 20 gal (which was a mistake in the first place...) and had only cleanup crew, anemone (don't remember what kind, long time ago), and a clown. I was doing a study for a class. Right, so, you know how maxijet powerheads like to fall down? Well, unfortunately, the anemone broke it's fall. So.....MESSY! I was picking anemone flesh out of the motor for about two hours. Hehe, poor guy. So, now I keep my powerheads in strategic locations.
More recently, 6 months ago, I added a second tang to my 75 gal that had a yellow tang already, some chromis, clowns, algae blenny, etc. I knew they may fight, but I had a horrible algae problem and wanted more eaten. So, they fought. The new one died in less than a day, and the yellow was stressed into ich. And I mean, ICH, like a completely white formerly yellow fish!!! 8O So, not wanting to kill my inverts with meds, I lowered the salinity to kill the ich. That worked, and everything was fine, but THEN it stressed my clowns into getting clownfish disease, and they all died. I'd always rather lose fish than dose my main tank, but it sure was a bad idea to add another tang. Oh well.
By the way, this is a great place to hear really funny stories. And to learn. Yeah, we're here to learn, right, I remember now. :lol: :wink:
It's always a while until we can laugh about these things!!!
Sara
