I've never tried this bubble trick, but it sounds like a cool idea. Regardless, when you go to the fish store, I'd recommend also picking up an air pump, airline tubing, and a big sponge filter. These are great to use in a QT (in addition to your HOB). An air driven sponge filter will populate with bottled bacteria very quickly and gives huge surface area for colonization. In a 10G QT, your HOB plus the sponge filter would be all the biological filtration that you'd need for keeping a few fish with no problem. Plus, since you don't have a sump, if you can find a place in your DT to cram/hide the sponge filter, it'll always be ready to go for your QT with no need for bottled bacteria (and will add more biofiltration capacity to your DT).
I agree with this statement. I don't know what else you have in your 75G, but even if the sailfin and the tusk are your only two fish that will get big, you probably will have to rehome at least one of them eventually. By the way, I've always wanted a harlequin tusk. However, I need to keep a lot of snails for my CUC and I keep porcelain crabs for my anemones, so that beautiful fish is out of the question for me
I should’ve put a disclaimer in. They will be going into a bigger tank, they’re all small. I forgot people be policing
I don’t have any CUC or inverts. Theyll be going in a bigger tank soon.
+1 on all of that
So, this morning the tusk came out of the corner. The Sailfin bothered him a little. Not as much as yesterday.
Sailfins are not all that aggressive. You should be fine, especially if you put them in a larger tank, which you should. Keep the lights off for a day or two to keep the initial aggression down.
Yea that was my thinking on the aggression. It’s like he goes to seek the tusk out. It’s weird
as I mentioned, its the first 24hrs. By day 3 it should be virtually no bother to the tusk
Dude I came home and it’s like somebody performed an exorcism on the Sailfin. he’s bothering nobody now
