Clarion Angel experience?

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in 1999 I picked up a great 5" Conspic from Phil @ Quality... they had received about a half dozen and they'd sat around for awhile. They haven't been $400 since... Thing'd still be alive if it wasn't for a chiller failure.

jon
 
Still wasn't my most expensive fish purchase... I paid $450 in 1989 or 1990 (don't remember) for an Asfur that I got from Steve @ Cortez back when they were new in the country.

Hmmm... actually he more I think about it, the Wrought Iron Butterfly may have been more than that... or the Hawaiian Dragon Eel. Or even the pair of Japanese Anthias...

Ok I admit it. I used to have a really bad rare fish addiction :D
 
"They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no."
Amy has now taken up scuba diving....perhaps we can get her into marine fish as well.
 
Bad news to report on the Clarion front. All four that i received turned out to have both Amyloodinium AND Cryptocaryon. The one i kept for my aquarium seemed to be doing fine with the ich, eating and racing around. Then he suddenly went into hiding and was dead within 24hrs. The three i donated to the Steinhart aren't doing much better. Despite being in QT and getting treatment from their vet team 2 of the 3 died. It looks like the last will make survive. A quote from Matt "When they died we performed a necropsy, which includes snipping a portion of their gills off and scraping their skin to observe them under a microscope. There we can see the actual parasites and identify them. The outward appearance of the fish strongly suggested both of the diseases, and the necropsy confirmed it. "
 
Ouch!

The very worst and most stressed fishes were held back and are still recovering nicely. They will sell before long.
The system they are in cleans up fish well and the attention to detail, daily keeps pathogens from spreading. Amyloodinium and Cryptocaryon are not hard to treat for!
I dont get it. Is there something immune to freshwater dipping or UV...or copper/malachite ?
or did the fish contract the bug and it spread unabated?
They were days out of the ocean and not harbored in some dingy water faciity .
Steve
 
Mine is doing really well now. Its got over its initial problems, of white stingy poop and some bacterial infection along the lateral line, and is eating really well now. eating even the larger mysis shrimp. The fish has put on some weight and does not look skinny anymore.

Here is a picture taken today.

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sanjay.
 
every time I think of Clarions I think of Passers, and remember how a few years back I was diving near San Carlos at this little offshore island and you'd see HUGE groups of Passers, from bright orange juvies to black adults... not quite Clarions of course... but very cool.
 
I was a bit thrown off by the ich, which responds well to hypo. It's the much more visual of the two. Hypo doesn't work with velvet. Had I gotten lucky and treated with copper, which is the direction i just about took, likely would have had a different result. I think pretty similar outcome for Steinhart. Their vets said they've never seen this parasite strike so quickly.
 
Mr T-
so so sorry to hear the news of your clarions!
Of the 2 that I kept, the small 1 died about a week later.
The larger one is doing great feed on fortified mysis shrimp. Matt was here this weekend and didnt mention the casualties
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11894868#post11894868 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Berkeleyaquaman
why?
do you want one?
Good water quality +variety of nutritious foods + low stress level = healthy happy fish
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Hey Erin,

I sent you a PM regarding the Clarion. Do you have any?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11825378#post11825378 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tylorarm
My appologies Matt, that was pretty big miss. Thanks for correcting me Gresham. Oh, and not 100 but 10 not exactly small error either. Leafy or weedy? I should have taken notes. I believe they had both but I'm losing confidence in the story by the minute. Not only that, i was so engrossed in the story i forgot to take pics. Geesh.
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No worries, there are lots of worse things I've gotten called in place of "Wandell". :D

We do have leafies (Phycodurus eques) and weedies (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) doing very well...and growing like gangbusters! So far only eating live mysis but we do hope to wean them onto frozen eventually. As far as I understand there is a legal market for weedy sea dragons. Leafies are only legally collected once per year, one male's offspring, which are then reared to a larger size.

Hope this helps, Matt
 
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