metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Is there a Jerk in your tank? Oh the fish stories we could tell. Like the Midas Blenny that bit me. Join in the story telling as Benny and I talk about the Fish compatibility and jerks we have known Listen live! http://tobtr.com/s/8009219 Call in during the show - we would LOVE to hear about the jerk in your tank. (773) 897-6161 Link to comment
ReefSafeSolutions Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I'm too shy to call in, but you're welcome to talk about my stupid clown that attacks my coral...I'm about ready to trade it in for something a bit more reef safe. It picked my green hairy mushroom to near-death. I had to put the mushroom in my Dad's tank so it could recover! It went from about 3" to about 1/2" because of how much the clown would pick at it. Now it dives into the zoas and grabs my frogspawn's tentacles and thrashes around. I can see where some tentacles are missing little purple bulbs...time for the clown to go! Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Wrasse. He kills the snails, especially nassarious! Link to comment
metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Calling in would be fun! You could make a helium gas voice. It's all good. Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I gots nothing... But I do really hate every clownfish... they're all jerks. Link to comment
GTi Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Six Line - chewed the dorsal fins off my Red Firefish and Hi Fin Goby. Traded him and the fins grew back... Is your podcast a regular or one off? What's it called? Link to comment
Fnard Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 My neon dottyback. Was my only fish but he just seemed like an asshole. So I got him a 6 line to play with. Guess the Dotty is winning because I'm constantly fishing the 6 out of the overflow. Link to comment
metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 I'm working on a series. Just recording for now. Link to comment
Psychosis Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Had a blue devil that wasn't very nice, go figure? Link to comment
sangheili Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 No big jerks, the Solarensis wrasse that was a jerk got evicted. The "boss" of the tank though is a male lyretail anthias. He commands over 10+ Anthias of different species and is always out and swimming around when the moonlights are on, even when all other fish are asleep. He's the protector. BTW: I would assume the podcast is titled "Shoes and Fins"? Link to comment
metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Does daytime work for anyone to call in or it should be in the evening? Link to comment
Pinner Reef Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Anytime tomorrow could work for me. Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Got a jerk in your tank? I'd love to hear about it I'm recording a podcast, be great to hear from some of you. Anybody up for calling in? Yes! my 4+ inch female maroon clownfish! She has killed some of my clean up crew ( like my poor tuxedo sea urchin), forced me to rehome my royal gramma that had been with me for 5 years, splashes water on my face when I feed her, forced me to go barebottom because she loved to create sand storms, bites my hand and dive bombs into my hand. What else can I say! I do love her though after 9 years. She's like part of the family. I'm too shy to call in, but you're welcome to talk about my stupid clown that attacks my coral...I'm about ready to trade it in for something a bit more reef safe. It picked my green hairy mushroom to near-death. I had to put the mushroom in my Dad's tank so it could recover! It went from about 3" to about 1/2" because of how much the clown would pick at it. Now it dives into the zoas and grabs my frogspawn's tentacles and thrashes around. I can see where some tentacles are missing little purple bulbs...time for the clown to go! When I put new frags into my tank, I have to play the game "I hope my FMCF doesn't decide to knock it over". She loves to do that! ahhhh.... I gots nothing... But I do really hate every clownfish... they're all jerks. I agree. Even my small B/W CF is a jerk in my 10G. He killed my cleaner shrimp! Link to comment
metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sounds like a good podcast to me. Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sounds like a good podcast to me. But I have a terrible squeaky voice and my crappy accent comes out sometimes . Link to comment
HarryPotter Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Sounds like a good podcast to me. OOO OOOOO I had a coral banded shrimp that would rip apart LPS and would damage the fins of a dwarf coral beauty. How about an Australian accent? Link to comment
metrokat Posted September 25, 2015 Author Share Posted September 25, 2015 OOO OOOOO I had a coral banded shrimp that would rip apart LPS and would damage the fins of a dwarf coral beauty. How about an Australian accent? Shrimp on the barbie Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 all of them. they're all a-holes. Link to comment
jack1978 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Me. I'm the biggest a-hole in my tank. Link to comment
Paleoreef103 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I may have got lucky, but everything gets along very well in the tank. The members of my tank are generally considered semi-aggressive, but my fish rarely even flash their fins at the other members of the tank let alone nip at each other. For the record I have a four-line wrasse, a fridami pseudochromis, two black ice clownfish, a kauldern's cardinalfish, and a neon goby. I believe this is due to the fact that my tank is lightly stocked for fish, they all have areas that are mostly their own, and they are fed every day. The wrasse dominates the caves and passageways of the rocks, the clowns stake out the massive orange crush acan, the neon goby reaaaallly likes clinging to the glass under the loc-line, the pseudochromis has a small territory between the branches of a massive Caulastraea to the Lobophyllia hemprichii, and no one seems to be threatened in the slightest by the cardinal floating into their territory. All come out of their zones to beg front and center for food though. Link to comment
Mojado Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Melanurus wrasse. Has killed two of my clams, emerald crabs, porcelain crab. He's getting the boot tomorrow. Link to comment
Murphs_Reef Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 M female clown, she has been stealing food from my duncans to the end that it hardly opens anymore, and when it dies you can see the bite marks.. Link to comment
righttirefire Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 My green BTA! Link to comment
nidding Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 all of them. they're all a-holes. Same here. Every fish in my tank are complete bastards. Except maybe for the male clown who's quite docile. My sixline tears apart every CUC-member who's not a snail. It has almost wiped out my big population of bristle worms and microserpent stars. It's also acting sort of bipolar towars my cherub angel. Sometimes they look like best friends and then the cherub gets a beating. My cherub angel munches on LPS now and then and my bicolor blenny chews on both euphillae and SPS. And then there's the female clown. She's very much the boss of the tank and hands out random beatings to everyone. It seems to keep the overall aggression in check and so no fish seems to be getting more beat up than they can handle. The other day, however, my Kuekenthali shrimp popped its head out. All five fishes swarmed it and I thought it was byebye shrimpie. It seemed to find hole to dive into. I usually never see the shrimp. I think I got an explanation. ...oh I forgot about my pincushion urchin. Everything has to be nailed down, glued and sealed to the rocks, not to get picked up and tossed around. It even rearranges my rock work. I use a lot of time just cleaning up after it. Link to comment
patback Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 That guy with the tongs and turkey baster that's always in my tank is sort of a jerk. Link to comment
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