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Doni
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After doing three formalin dips, I decided to remove them from the 60 cube and treat them with Cupramine in a quarantine tank.
They have since completed all dips and Cupramine treatment and are doing very well. I really like them. They have fabulous personalities and are quite bold. I am allowing the 60 gallon cube to remain fallow for a full 8 weeks before I put them back in it.
I will get some updated photos of them. While in the QT, the male has developed the white stripe on the end of his caudle fin and soft dorsal fin. Very pretty!
Here is a photo of them in the QT back on 9-16-09.
After doing three formalin dips, I decided to remove them from the 60 cube and treat them with Cupramine in a quarantine tank.
They have since completed all dips and Cupramine treatment and are doing very well. I really like them. They have fabulous personalities and are quite bold. I am allowing the 60 gallon cube to remain fallow for a full 8 weeks before I put them back in it.
I will get some updated photos of them. While in the QT, the male has developed the white stripe on the end of his caudle fin and soft dorsal fin. Very pretty!
Here is a photo of them in the QT back on 9-16-09.
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hyperboy
Premium Member
Thanks for asking
After doing three formalin dips, I decided to remove them from the 60 cube and treat them with Cupramine in a quarantine tank.
They have since completed all dips and Cupramine treatment and are doing very well. I really like them. They have fabulous personalities and are quite bold. I am allowing the 60 gallon cube to remain fallow for a full 8 weeks before I put them back in it.
I will get some updated photos of them. While in the QT, the male has developed the white stripe on the end of his caudle fin and soft dorsal fin. Very pretty!
Here is a photo of them in the QT back on 9-16-09.
Good news! :thumbsup:
Doni
New member
Here are a few pics I took this morning.
They are out of the hospital tank and in a 40 gallon refugium tank. I will most likely put them in one of my 100 gallon rubbermaid sumps so they will have more room. I hesitate to do so because I will only be able to observe them from a top-down view but I think they will enjoy more space. They are very active clowns!
Female
Male
They are out of the hospital tank and in a 40 gallon refugium tank. I will most likely put them in one of my 100 gallon rubbermaid sumps so they will have more room. I hesitate to do so because I will only be able to observe them from a top-down view but I think they will enjoy more space. They are very active clowns!
Female
Male
WDLV
Skunk Hybrid Freak
Here's a little info on mine. I've had them about a year. I started them off in a 10 gallon QT with 1.009 SG water, a 50W heater, a Whisper EX45 and two 6x6 soapstone tiles. I used Formalin III at twice the base dose as a precaution.
They have lived for about the last 10 months in a 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank connected in tandem to two others. One is a sump packed full of liverock.
They live in one or more E. quadricolors at 75F + 3F.
The only problem I've had occured last night. The female thrashed the male and I moved them both back to the ten gallon where they will remain until the male heals.
All in all I would compare them in terms of husbandry and disease succeptability to A. polymnus.
I have kept seven of them in the last two years and had all my losses when my house temp spiked and the system went into the low 80s. They get a weakened immune system at normal reef temps. Keep close tabs on that.
I'm gonna be a little stern with you now and I hope you won't take it personally. I'm trying to save you and other readers a headache....
A tank that contains liverock, sand and other species of fish is NOT a proper quarrantine tank and I request you never again use it as one or post it online under the guise of one. Keep in mind that every time that you move a fish you further stress it and usually expose it to more micro-abrasions just by chasing it and transporting it from one tank to the next. This makes it succeptable to bacterial infection.
If you use a BB tank with objects that are not particularly absorbant and that are not likely to find their way into a reef later, you will be far better off when (not if) you need to medicate.
Please save yourself the headache.
I wish someone had impressed this upon me 10-12 years ago so I wouldn't have had to rip my hair out as I lost many of my prized specimens. My methods aren't perfect, but they have greatly reduced my losses when bringing in rare clowns.
I wish you the best of luck with your new fish. I think you're on the right track with the tank they're in now. They look much healthier.
They have lived for about the last 10 months in a 100 gallon rubbermaid stock tank connected in tandem to two others. One is a sump packed full of liverock.
They live in one or more E. quadricolors at 75F + 3F.
The only problem I've had occured last night. The female thrashed the male and I moved them both back to the ten gallon where they will remain until the male heals.
All in all I would compare them in terms of husbandry and disease succeptability to A. polymnus.
I have kept seven of them in the last two years and had all my losses when my house temp spiked and the system went into the low 80s. They get a weakened immune system at normal reef temps. Keep close tabs on that.
I'm gonna be a little stern with you now and I hope you won't take it personally. I'm trying to save you and other readers a headache....
A tank that contains liverock, sand and other species of fish is NOT a proper quarrantine tank and I request you never again use it as one or post it online under the guise of one. Keep in mind that every time that you move a fish you further stress it and usually expose it to more micro-abrasions just by chasing it and transporting it from one tank to the next. This makes it succeptable to bacterial infection.
If you use a BB tank with objects that are not particularly absorbant and that are not likely to find their way into a reef later, you will be far better off when (not if) you need to medicate.
Please save yourself the headache.
I wish someone had impressed this upon me 10-12 years ago so I wouldn't have had to rip my hair out as I lost many of my prized specimens. My methods aren't perfect, but they have greatly reduced my losses when bringing in rare clowns.
I wish you the best of luck with your new fish. I think you're on the right track with the tank they're in now. They look much healthier.
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Doni
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UPDATE:
It has been almost 5 months since I got them and they are doing very well!
Here is a video I took this morning of them. They are showing great pre-spawning behavior
As the video begins, the female is on the left.
The male is on the right and has a large white band at the end of his tail.
It has been almost 5 months since I got them and they are doing very well!
Here is a video I took this morning of them. They are showing great pre-spawning behavior
As the video begins, the female is on the left.
The male is on the right and has a large white band at the end of his tail.
sailfintang
Member
What type of tile are you using for them to lay eggs on? I know people use to use the clay pots. Is the tile available from hardware stores?
LargeAngels
Premium Member
That is awesome!
Wow, those look beautiful. There appears to be such a night and day difference between the pics you posted back in September and the video you just posted.
BTW (and I bet I am not the only who does this) I routinely look at all the videos posted on your site just to try to get a glimpse of the Latz swimming by in the background.
BTW (and I bet I am not the only who does this) I routinely look at all the videos posted on your site just to try to get a glimpse of the Latz swimming by in the background.
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
i dont think ive ever wanted a pair more than when i watch them clean that tile.
WDLV
Skunk Hybrid Freak
That's unheard of. Please share your method. There's a lot of us out here that would love to have a bulletproof quarrantine method.
Nice video. That's awsome!
Doni
New member
Thanks everyone!
I have learned all about QT'ing and disease control from Leebca on another forum: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/
(mods remove link if inappropriate).
I started QT'ing about 2 years ago after I had to treat my main display for ICH... twice! (The fallow period was too short the first time)
Since then I am sure to QT and have successfully treated many new fish.:dance:
I have learned all about QT'ing and disease control from Leebca on another forum: http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/fish-diseases-treatments/
(mods remove link if inappropriate).
I started QT'ing about 2 years ago after I had to treat my main display for ICH... twice! (The fallow period was too short the first time)
Since then I am sure to QT and have successfully treated many new fish.:dance:
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