Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

dangit....

The clowns have never eaten these pellets before but conveniently....

This really isn’t good. This guy needs those pellets bad.
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Great looking clowns!! Are you sure they are eating the pellets, or doing the nose-bonk thing to try and see if they can host it? (If it’s the former, just feed them a lot before you feed the corals, if the latter...you better chase them away!)
 
Great looking clowns!! Are you sure they are eating the pellets, or doing the nose-bonk thing to try and see if they can host it? (If it’s the former, just feed them a lot before you feed the corals, if the latter...you better chase them away!)

1000% eating the pellets. They ripped them from inside the Wilsos mouth....


I’m going to have to work out a feeding scheme. The wilso has started to eat faster but it still takes a good 10 min.

He’s now not eating...
 
Great looking clowns!! Are you sure they are eating the pellets, or doing the nose-bonk thing to try and see if they can host it? (If it’s the former, just feed them a lot before you feed the corals, if the latter...you better chase them away!)
My radiata has been a clownfish bed for 2 years. They nose boink it and regularly lay completely motionless inside the lobes. Like, right down inside where the corals mouths are.

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1000% eating the pellets. They ripped them from inside the Wilsos mouth....


I’m going to have to work out a feeding scheme. The wilso has started to eat faster but it still takes a good 10 min.

He’s now not eating...
Night time. Wait until the clowns are asleep and then feed the wilso...
 
My radiata has been a clownfish bed for 2 years. They nose boink it and regularly lay completely motionless inside the lobes. Like, right down inside where the corals mouths are.

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Do they steal the food from inside it’s closing mouth :/

So sad for my wilso, hopefully this doesn’t stress it out.
 
1000% eating the pellets. They ripped them from inside the Wilsos mouth....


I’m going to have to work out a feeding scheme. The wilso has started to eat faster but it still takes a good 10 min.

He’s now not eating...
Aye, there’s the rub! A mixed reef can be so frustrating when everything doesn’t cooperate. I still have to occasionally remind my cleaner shrimp that the Goni is NOT his own personal buffet. He taunts me by hiding directly underneath it all day, then as soon as it’s lights out he pounces...but does at least leave it alone now when the lights are on. Mostly. My clowns learned much faster, I think it’s because they have significantly better eyesight and knew what was happening. Try just scaring them away from it whenever you catch them in the act.
 
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Do they steal the food from inside it’s closing mouth :/

So sad for my wilso, hopefully this doesn’t stress it out.
I don't really feed it, but they steal food from the mouths of other fish... a stationary coral would be no issue.
 
I don't really feed it, but they steal food from the mouths of other fish... a stationary coral would be no issue.


They were just steaming pellets one by one when the food was half way down the wilsos mouths. I need to distract them next time and maybe feed the wilsos mouths on the backside.

You can see a few of his mouths finishing up dinner in the back:

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Aye, there’s the rub! A mixed reef can be so frustrating when everything doesn’t cooperate. I still have to occasionally remind my cleaner shrimp that the Goni is NOT his own personal buffet. He taunts me by hiding directly underneath it all day, then as soon as it’s lights out he pounces...but does at least leave it alone now when the lights are on. Mostly. My clowns learned much faster, I think it’s because they have much better eyesight and knew what was happening. Try just scaring them away from it whenever you catch them in the act.


I was able to distract them with a half mysis cube pretty quick. These clowns can eat an insane amount of food lol.


I just hope the wilso is okay. They eat much differently than other lps. They sink their tissue down until the food falls in. They thing slowly work on it with 100 or so of their mouths until it’s fully down. It must have hurt a little for him to have a clown stick it’s nose that deep in its mouths to pull out pellets.

I’m sure he’ll be ok. He’s definitely ticked though, I hope this doesn’t impact his next feedings.
 
They were just steaming pellets one by one when the food was half way down the wilsos mouths. I need to distract them next time and maybe feed the wilsos mouths on the backside.

You can see a few of his mouths finishing up dinner in the back:

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I really, really love this coral! I hope he makes it!
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I just dosed some Red Sea a+b but no, it’s not.

I run a uv sterilizer 24/7, so it would take quite a bit to make the water cloudy.
Oh the question is for the salt itself not for your tank, i bought that salt and its foggy... but I havent installed a skimmer yet
 

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