anarchyx914
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Hey all,
I recently acquired a Harlequin Tusk from my father so I proceeded to setup the QT tank for it. My QT is a 55gallon long with a HOB filter and a square sponge in the filter seeded from my display. I also added a piece of live rock from my tank for extra bio filtration.
Anyways, The tusk was eating like a pig when I put him in, and then I saw him flashing so I decided to use cupramine on the tank. I did the first half dosage on Saturday of last week, and added the rest 48 hours like the bottle says. He hasn't really ate anything since Monday of this week and he has me a bit paranoid. I have tried Krill, Clam, Scallops, Shrimp, Mysis, and Mussels and I am not having much luck. He physically looks great, and hes nice and fat because he was well fed in my dads tank. There is a clown trigger in the tank as well but there is no aggression between the two, they both lived in the same tank at my fathers. I run a relatively big air pump in the QT with 2 big air stones that are sunk to the bottom, I have lots of air/water movement at top of the tank breaking the surface tension.
SG 1.025
Temp 78.5
Ammonia 0
The only symptoms I see are as follows:
- Occasional flashing, I have maybe seen him do it 2-3 times over the past week.
- Excess swimming, he doesn't really seem to relax except at night. I have a few PVC pipes in the tank for hiding spots.
- Occasional bobbing up at the top of the tank, I can see his top fin/head sticking out of the water.
- Doesn't really want to eat. He sucked up a large krill today, but then spit it out and didn't seem interested.
Do you guys think that maybe its the cupramine that's getting to him? I know it suppresses appetite but its been a week almost and he's making me paranoid. I'm wondering if I should put some carbon in the filter and take it all out.
I recently acquired a Harlequin Tusk from my father so I proceeded to setup the QT tank for it. My QT is a 55gallon long with a HOB filter and a square sponge in the filter seeded from my display. I also added a piece of live rock from my tank for extra bio filtration.
Anyways, The tusk was eating like a pig when I put him in, and then I saw him flashing so I decided to use cupramine on the tank. I did the first half dosage on Saturday of last week, and added the rest 48 hours like the bottle says. He hasn't really ate anything since Monday of this week and he has me a bit paranoid. I have tried Krill, Clam, Scallops, Shrimp, Mysis, and Mussels and I am not having much luck. He physically looks great, and hes nice and fat because he was well fed in my dads tank. There is a clown trigger in the tank as well but there is no aggression between the two, they both lived in the same tank at my fathers. I run a relatively big air pump in the QT with 2 big air stones that are sunk to the bottom, I have lots of air/water movement at top of the tank breaking the surface tension.
SG 1.025
Temp 78.5
Ammonia 0
The only symptoms I see are as follows:
- Occasional flashing, I have maybe seen him do it 2-3 times over the past week.
- Excess swimming, he doesn't really seem to relax except at night. I have a few PVC pipes in the tank for hiding spots.
- Occasional bobbing up at the top of the tank, I can see his top fin/head sticking out of the water.
- Doesn't really want to eat. He sucked up a large krill today, but then spit it out and didn't seem interested.
Do you guys think that maybe its the cupramine that's getting to him? I know it suppresses appetite but its been a week almost and he's making me paranoid. I'm wondering if I should put some carbon in the filter and take it all out.
