Check out my new Wrasses!

[FishAddict87]

I am trying to restock my tank after a horrible tank crash a few months back that was caused with a really bad ich breakout :hammer:. I let my tank sit fallow for 4 weeks and took the two surviving fish (one clown and a dart fish) into a QT where I treated with kick ich. After the 4 weeks, I released the two fish into the tank. One day, I walked into petco(yeah I know...lol) to pick up some frozen and I couldnt help but look at their tanks. They had just gotten a shipment and were floating bags so I asked if they had any wrasses and the employee showed me a few and I saw two that caught my eye and I just grabbed them right away before they were doomed. They were placed into my QT and I observed them for 3 weeks and they showed no sign of anything so I released them into the tank and all was well. Very personable. The two wrasses are a male exquisite wrasse(3.5") and a male blue headed fairy wrasse (3") and both are fat and get allong just fine cruising around my tank and begging for food. I love them and I def caught the wrasse bug. Anyway...time for Pictures! sry for crappy iphone pics..enjoy!

 

[Ambition]

Great looking wrasses.

Right now, your fish may not be showing signs of ich, but odds are pretty high that it is still present in you system. As of right now, there are only 3 proven methods, that I am aware of, to treat for ich. They are hyposalinity, copper, and tank transfer. Kick Ich is just a sales gimmick to make money. Also, a tank that has ich needs to be fallow for 8-10 weeks, the latter being better.

 

[FishAddict87]

When it was fallow, I used hypo in the tank just for the extra assurance. I understand what you mean though.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Beautiful wrasses! I hate to make a negative comment when the thread is about a beautiful new fish; but 4 weeks fallow time is nowhere near long enough to have any certainty of eradicating ich. 10+ weeks is needed. Read Snprvich's fallow-time sticky above and that will be obvious. Also, 3 weeks QT time is about half what you need for new fish. 3 weeks is barely one ich cycle and all ich don't follow the rules. Like Ambition said above, kick-Ich does about nothing. It says its reef safe and that is the magic word. There is no reef safe ich med and I really don't trust hypo either. If ich returns, I'd be ready to get all the fish into your QT ASAP and treat with something that works. When caught early, ich is fairly easy to cure in a QT/HT. If your previous tank's fish died very quickly, it could have been velvet. Take your time with parasite control; like most things in our hobby, it can't be rushed.

 

[jhaimes]

hey I just wanted to ask a quick question and by no means wanted to hijack the thread. First those fish are really beautiful. I want both of them. My question though is in regards to QT. I know its a must and such but in some circumstances could it hurt a fish such as a tang or a larger fish? I mean to be put in a small tank for a month just has to be stressful as apposed to its eventual home. That is the only thing that puzzles me about QT fish. I mean i would think a smaller tank for a long time would be way more stressful, and stress brings on ick right, would be far worse than anything? Dont attack me just thoughts going thru my head. I just want happy fish, fish like those wrasses...really pretty fish! Good luck!

 

[FishAddict87]

Thanks, both wrasses are doing great and eating like pigs. With the QT thing, you want to make sure you have a QT tank that will not cram and stress out the fish such as a 7 inch tang in a 10 gallon tank just does not seem plausible. I feel that you need to plan out what fish you want to get while your tank is cycling or get a QT tank that you know will be a decent size. I now have a 20L which I feel would be able to support a medium size fish. As for the stress, you want the QT process to be as least stressful as possible but you want to QT to make minimize introducing unwanted things into your tank. Hope this helps

 

[JohnniG]

Nice wrasse mate