Ok, sounds like you might be doing too much at a
time. Don't add the extra filter, just reach in and
pull out a little hair algae, and then remove some
more the next day, and so on.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


George Patterson wrote on 5/17/2007 8:37 PM:
Wayne Sallee wrote:
Do they not have hiding places so that when you put your hand in
there, they have sufficient places to feel safe?

They have tons of hidy-holes, but I have to hang a filter unit on the
tank to clear the trash out that gets stirred up during this. I suspect
that some of them make a break for it during this time. One time it will
be a firefish; the next time a chromis.

I've got about 120 pounds of live rock, plus a rats nest of dead elkhorn
coral for a small forest in a 125 gallon tank. When I put a scraper in
to scrape the glass, everybody disappears.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.