Tomato clowns

[cooqie]

jus got home frm lfs and bought 2 tomato clowns... before i bought them i told them to put them in the same tank to see if they would fight and they didnt, so ive read they are the best to cycle your tank and im starting now my tank is about 2 months old... so any more info would help plzz, man im happy with them they are da best lol

 

[saltn00b]

if your tank has been up and running for 2 months, it should have cycled. get some decent non - strip test kits and test your own ammonia, nitrate , nitrite, pH, Sg, and alkalinity .
drip acclimate them and you should be fine. before you add more fish , i highly suggest you go through the forum FAQ about the hypo saliinity process, to make sure no fish are introduced to your system with a disease.

 

[cooqie]

yea my parameters are good but the guy i buy my fish frm puts them in qt before he sells them so he doesnt sell it to people with deseases and if the fish die in 1 week he will give you another fish for free... do they eat pellets?

 

[alix2.0]

still i would quarantine them myself when i got them. how do you know that some kid that works there washed his hands before he went to do something in that tank? they could be exposed to something the day before you get them. i guess as your first fish its not such a big deal to put them directly into the DT, but with future purchases, id keep that in mind.

 

[cooqie]

no i say lfs 2 da guy cuz hes sells fish and corals at his house hes a marine biologist and he has a licences 2 sell fish and to bring them frm the united states since i live in the dominican republic... how long should i acclimate them for

 

[alix2.0]

at least an hour if you drip.

 

[cooqie]

im acclimating them with tepuerature and i add sum water of the tank slowly

 

[alix2.0]

dripping is better for the fish and its easier for you, but if you do it just by temping and adding water make sure none of the water in the bag gets into your tank.

 

[cooqie]

yea i know i make sure i dont want 2 mix the water but after a while i dump some of the water out in the sink and put it back in the tank and add more water

 

[alix2.0]

i would do that untill your fairly sur that 99% of the water in the bag is your tank water, depending on how much water you add should take about 45 minutes to an hour.

 

[cooqie]

ok thank u is there nything i need to know about these fish would they eat pellets i have two of them and they are both going in at the same time is this a good idea

 

[alix2.0]

yeah. better to add them at the same time. dont add any more clowns though because they will fight as they get older, even if they get along as juvies. they will probably eat pellets, depending on how big they are. what are they being fed now?

 

[cooqie]

yea i bought my clown fish small and they are both the same species so they wont fight i dont know what they eat at the lfs but i bought pellets frm them because thats all they have there so im guessing they feed them that... but they jut got krill but they look like shrimp so im goin to start buying that its better for them

 

[nycbob]

tomato clowns r pigs. they will eat anything! i hv one that eats everything! he is hosted to a bubble tip.

 

[cooqie]

oo 4 real real that makes me happy i was going to buy an anemone today but didnt have enough money its was small though and i dont kno what kind it was it had green tip and i forgot the main color of it

 

[alix2.0]

be careful with anemones they need super water quality and strong lighting. personally id wait but its up to you.

 

[cooqie]

yea im going to wait for a while first i want to grow my coraline and these are goin to be the only fish for a while and next i get my anemone and just put them in and they look happy they are swimming together even though they were seperatet at da lfs

 

[cooqie]

 

[cooqie]

ok so i think im all wrong i have a cinamon clownfish sorry for the wrong info.