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calvertbill
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Every time I react quickly and decisively to any problem in my tanks it invariably turns out to be wrong.
I get up this morning to find the corpse of one of my favorite fish, a 5" female Clarkii, tightly wedged between two rocks in the reef. I pulled up a chair to check for any movement at all and for almost 3 minutes there was none. I reasoned that if she was really dead I could just grab her tail with a pair of tongs and yank her out but if she was alive and just trapped that might injure her on the way out so I'd have to start disassembling the top of the reef. Boo hiss!
No movement. I still couldn't figure out how the current (it's pretty strong there) could have wedged her in there, she had to do it herself.
So I pull up a ladder, turn off the HQI and prepare to invade their world. As soon as my hand breaks the water's surface, however, she starts wiggling and after about 10 seconds works her way out and swims off to join the male. Strange fish!
I get up this morning to find the corpse of one of my favorite fish, a 5" female Clarkii, tightly wedged between two rocks in the reef. I pulled up a chair to check for any movement at all and for almost 3 minutes there was none. I reasoned that if she was really dead I could just grab her tail with a pair of tongs and yank her out but if she was alive and just trapped that might injure her on the way out so I'd have to start disassembling the top of the reef. Boo hiss!
No movement. I still couldn't figure out how the current (it's pretty strong there) could have wedged her in there, she had to do it herself.
So I pull up a ladder, turn off the HQI and prepare to invade their world. As soon as my hand breaks the water's surface, however, she starts wiggling and after about 10 seconds works her way out and swims off to join the male. Strange fish!
