Clownfish pair sleep in my skimmer cup!

[nycmarisol]

Hello everyone,

This is my first saltwater tank and my first post so I thought I'd make it an interesting one, courtesy of Puddin and Peach, my little pair of ocellaris clownfish. The other night I went into a panic when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't find them :Yikes: of course, I finally found them- in the cup that hangs in my tank that collects stuff for the skimmer (sorry- I don't know the officially terms for a lot of things yet!). Is this normal? I can't find anything online about it. Should I worry?

 

[Dre]

Dead or Alive?

 

[nycmarisol]

Good point! Alive and they do it every night! They get in and out by themselves.

 

[albano]

in the cup that hangs in my tank that collects stuff for the skimmer

???? for the skimmer, or from the skimmer????... doesn't sound like it's 'set up' correctly...need pics

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Are you talking about the overflow box? We need a pic to ID

 

[nycmarisol]

Uh oh! Feeling like my mom with her new iPhone. How do I post a pic?

 

[nycmarisol]

 

[nycmarisol]

Yippee! So it's that cup thing on the right...

 

[Arati]

I was thinking the little box that comes with the CSS skimer that has a sponge in it for "micro bubble reduction" that the return flows into.

not sure what that is, just make sure its not an intake.. IE they cant be sucked into a pump.

obligatory .. "why do you think we call em clown fish" rotflmao

but ya they sleep in a safe spot and this type of behavior is not uncommon

 

[nycmarisol]

You're so right! The are little funny bodies! So this over flow box, it has little "vents" but not something that they our ever slip into. I would love to get rid of some of the micro bubbles, even though red sea max says its normal. Should I start a new thread to ask about that?

 

[al0ha]

i would superglue strips of gutterguard there to prevent them from slipping in and out

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Isnt that water level really high? Those teeth on the overflow box are useless with water passed it that much

 

[greybolt03]

You're so right! The are little funny bodies! So this over flow box, it has little "vents" but not something that they our ever slip into. I would love to get rid of some of the micro bubbles, even though red sea max says its normal. Should I start a new thread to ask about that?

Reef sanctuary.com has a section just for red seamax owners I would search there for answers on your micro bubbles...

 

[lnevo]

Isnt that water level really high? Those teeth on the overflow box are useless with water passed it that much

+1 the teeth are way to low...water should be passing between them not over. Can you adjust the height of that?

 

[Flushtown Reefer]

I have a red sea max.. It's not a big deal if they sleep there since they can't fall into the back.. as far as the water level it might be that you have too much media in that 3 tray thing in the back causing reduced flow which is also causing the water level in the last compartment to be too low making the water drop down over the last baffle causing bubbles which get sucked up by the return pump. You might also want to put hoses on the bottom of the return pumps

 

[Flushtown Reefer]

i'll post a pic in a minute

 

[Flushtown Reefer]

the camera in my phone is acting up.. this is basically what i did except i put the hoses on the end the pulls water into the pump.

 

[Flushtown Reefer]

Oh yea forgot to mention.. that cup is called a surface skimmer.. raise it up to the top

 

[nycmarisol]

Wow. I'm so grateful to have you guys to count on! I topped off the water two days ago and I thought it was a little high, though the water level indicator on the side says its fine. I will make sure to not run it so full. I also raised the surface skimmer as high as it can go, but still not high enough. Is it okay to just wait til water evaporates more? Flushtown, I think you're right. There's a bag of carbon in the back and if that thing shifts at all its bubble central in there. I don't quite understand the hoses in bottom of return pump thing, but I think that's because I kind of don't know what's back there. I will say that I made a "silencer" for the skimmer hose because that thing is so loud- and it did nothing :/ I will look for Red Sea max forum. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

 

[cody0709]

Red Sea has a sight glass on side of aquarium, water level should be about an inch from top, a little trick is to mark the spot on sight glass and only top off to that line.
This is very cool though, clowns are so funny!