Clowns and yellow tail have beef

[ReeferMan24]

Seeing my clowns and yellow tail blue damsel acting pretty territorial towards each other after adding a coral banded shrimp(which moved into the damsels nesting area) should I pull the shrimp or damsel out? Or will this naturally take it's own healthy course?

Thanks!

 

[mta_morrow]

Clowns are damsels as well. What kind of clowns are they?

Some are far more territorial than others

Also, how big is your tank?

 

[ReeferMan24]

45 gallon. I'm pretty sure they're just standard clowns..

 

[James M]

Is this the sane tank that’s only 2 weeks old ?

 

[mta_morrow]

They look like Ocellaris clowns.

45 is fine for 2 clowns and a yellow tail damsel.

I would not add any more damsels to the mix.

 

[ReeferMan24]

Is this the sane tank that’s only 2 weeks old ?

Yes

 

[James M]

Yes

It’s everything completely brand new ? Has you cycled finished?

 

[oceanfreak09]

You may be setting yourself up for disaster.Tanks need to cycle before stocking.(remember the saying,nothing good happens fast in this hobby) As far as for the territory problems, I would suggest more liverock for hiding and for more territories.

 

[ReeferMan24]

No live rocks have been cycled in previous tank. I'm not sure if the tank has cycled completely I'm not really sure how to find that out

 

[ReeferMan24]

You may be setting yourself up for disaster. Tanks need to cycle before stocking. As far as for the territory problems, I would suggest more liverock for hiding and for more territories.

Thanks

 

[James M]

Where they given to as dead live rock or where they wet .

 

[ReeferMan24]

Where they given to as dead live rock or where they wet .

Wet

 

[oceanfreak09]

No live rocks have been cycled in previous tank. I'm not sure if the tank has cycled completely I'm not really sure how to find that out

Lots of question and reading. (And then research, research, research) Unfortunately I don’t have time right now to tell you the right way because I’m working.

 

[James M]

Wet

You may get lucky because you got established rock with bacteria , but adding so many fish within a two week span may cause a crash because the bacteria can’t keep up with the bio load .
This thread shows you the whole process of cycling.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cycle-process-and-stages.284898/

 

[ReeferMan24]

You may get lucky because you got established rock with bacteria , but adding so many fish within a two week span may cause a crash because the bacteria can’t keep up with the bio load .
This thread shows you the whole process of cycling.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cycle-process-and-stages.284898/

Thanks very much. Gonna read this noe

 

[ReeferMan24]

You may get lucky because you got established rock with bacteria , but adding so many fish within a two week span may cause a crash because the bacteria can’t keep up with the bio load .
This thread shows you the whole process of cycling.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/cycle-process-and-stages.284898/

Definitely have diatoms

 

[ZoWhat]

 

[James M]

Definitely have diatoms

Do you have any test kits ?

 

[ReeferMan24]

think its the API reef master kit.. is it time to test?

 

[ReeferMan24]

Do you have any test kits ?

think its the API reef master kit