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[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Terry:

Was the 10 foot tank that you have made by a commercial enterprise? Anyone that you'd recommend for making a 10 foot glass tank for me?

[AF Founder]

Randy,

I got the tank from a retailer in Fall River, who ordered it for me from a company in TX. They had to make the tank twice, because they couldn't follow simple directions regarding bulkhead locations. I would not recommend them. If possible it's best to have a tank built on site, especially if you use glass thicken then 1/2 inch. It took 7 guys to move my empty tank.

Terry

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Thanks, Terry.

[EdKruzel]

Terry,
Interesting adding the Triggers to your tank. I wish you all the luck possible!!!

I once kept a small (2'') clown trigger in a holding container on the side of my 6' reef.
The fish belonged to a friend and had a severe injury to its mouth.
Once healed I called my friend to retrieve his trigger. The following morning before he arrived the trigger had escaped the acrylic and eggcrate container and was blissfully swimming amongst the corals.

The rock was cabled and puttied together. I tried everything for a week to get that fish out. Seven years later I finally broke down the tank when I moved. That clown was a model citizen whom never touched as much as a snail or shrimp in its 7yr residency.

I tried to repeat the experience several times since then with miserable results.

I hope you have the good fortune I once had.

Take care,
Ed

[AF Founder]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the best wishes, but what was the trouble with the later triggers you tried.

[EdKruzel]

Terry,
I had problems from chasing other fish to eating inverts and tasting corals and sometime all three from the same fish.
I did have a bit of luck in a semi reef/planted tank with some corals and a few of the larger sand sifters, ie Queen Conchs, large Cukes.

Here is the second most passive Clown Trigger I've ever encountered.
This was a 7'' fish in a 210gal tank.
[img]http://home.elp.rr.com/reeftanks/images/1010702%207.jpg

Ed[/img]

[EdKruzel]

Let me try that pic again.

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[AF Founder]

Hmmmm!