mvallee
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just wanted to commiserate with fellow reefers,
Losing fish really sucks, I setup a 90G QT to add a group of tangs to my 180G. I have been adding fish for three weeks and the last fish the one my wife wanted the most a Blonde Naso tang that I finally found last weekend at one of the LFS died this morning. It never looked 100% had strange scratch lines on it's side that were visible under my lighting that I could not see in the store and although it would eat always seemed to spit out more than it would eat and never colored up quite right.
Of course my wife is like I don't even know why you do this just get rid of everything, she gets so attached, honestly I do to but understand a bit more about the stresses these fish go through from ocean to our tanks and no way to tell the full impact of that.
Glad I setup the QT but now I have to wonder about all my other fish in there. Blue Hippo (small), lieutenant tang (small to medium), pair of bird wrasses (medium) and trio of lyretail anthias's all seem to be doing well but without knowing root cause I will have to keep a close eye, I was looking for a chevron tang as well to add to the mix hoping to add all at the same time but have not had luck in that search.
I was doing more of an observational QT and only treat if something came up but am now going be dosing Prazi-Pro at a minimum and thinking about trying chloroquine. I am afraid of copper from past issues of fish losses that I have no idea why it happened but seemed to be copper related. I was doing 10 gallon water changes every 3 days from main system and testing parameters at every water change plus have an ammonia badge so the parameter were good.
The Naso was in a low level copper system at the store for a month + they said and from what I have read this can mask illnesses with out eradicating the things you would dose copper for, so my bad plus really a low level poison for an extended period of time could not have helped. I am not slamming the store because I got a couple other fish from them that are doing really well and they have a great selection I just should have done more observation before pulling the trigger.
kinda sad and now on the lookout for another Naso.
Losing fish really sucks, I setup a 90G QT to add a group of tangs to my 180G. I have been adding fish for three weeks and the last fish the one my wife wanted the most a Blonde Naso tang that I finally found last weekend at one of the LFS died this morning. It never looked 100% had strange scratch lines on it's side that were visible under my lighting that I could not see in the store and although it would eat always seemed to spit out more than it would eat and never colored up quite right.
Of course my wife is like I don't even know why you do this just get rid of everything, she gets so attached, honestly I do to but understand a bit more about the stresses these fish go through from ocean to our tanks and no way to tell the full impact of that.
Glad I setup the QT but now I have to wonder about all my other fish in there. Blue Hippo (small), lieutenant tang (small to medium), pair of bird wrasses (medium) and trio of lyretail anthias's all seem to be doing well but without knowing root cause I will have to keep a close eye, I was looking for a chevron tang as well to add to the mix hoping to add all at the same time but have not had luck in that search.
I was doing more of an observational QT and only treat if something came up but am now going be dosing Prazi-Pro at a minimum and thinking about trying chloroquine. I am afraid of copper from past issues of fish losses that I have no idea why it happened but seemed to be copper related. I was doing 10 gallon water changes every 3 days from main system and testing parameters at every water change plus have an ammonia badge so the parameter were good.
The Naso was in a low level copper system at the store for a month + they said and from what I have read this can mask illnesses with out eradicating the things you would dose copper for, so my bad plus really a low level poison for an extended period of time could not have helped. I am not slamming the store because I got a couple other fish from them that are doing really well and they have a great selection I just should have done more observation before pulling the trigger.
kinda sad and now on the lookout for another Naso.
Sorry to hear about the loss. Sounds like you provided him every opportunity and he just couldn't pull through. I also feel there are a lot of fish that are just not going to make it despite best efforts.
