tassod
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Update
Haven't posted to this thread in a while so I thought I would give an update on my tank and recent events with it, good and bad.
First the bad: Lost my LTA when i was away on vacation for a week. When i returned, it had moved and got caught in one of my mp40's it seems and I found it face down in the sand. When i turned it over, this is how it looked:
A few days later, my RBTA also got caught in the mp40 (you would have thought that i learned my lesson and put my foam covers on...not!) but he is recovering nicely i believe. Anyhow, right now he attached himself under my Goniopora. Here is a pic when he first attached after the encounter with the mp40:
I also picked up last week a six line wrasse, put him in and all seemed fine but that day was the last i saw it. It will be one week tomorrow and its still MIA.
Loosing my LTA was very dissapointing but I understand this happens with these animals. My most recent loss (today) is really disheartening. Going on 4 and half weeks now, i have been keeping a beautiful powder brown tang in my QT. I put him in the QT the day I got him and been following a preventative treatment for him which included the use of Prazi Pro the first week followed by 2 weeks in Hyposalinity. He was doing great during this treatment and was eating very well. Things changed this week for the worst though. As of this past Monday i started noticing that his appetite was diminishing to nothing and he was acting lethargic. I decided to end my hypo treatment one week early and start bringing the salinity up to match my DT so I can transfer him. I brought it up over the next 4 days and he was still acting the same way more or less. Here is a short video on his behavior:
http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/tassod/media/IMG_0437_zpseb7e49e5.mp4.html
Often he would lay flat on the ground. In anycase I transfered him today to the DT. He kept to himself for the most part in one end of the tank but took a few strolls. Found it odd that he actually tried to pick at some of the corals. He was like this for a couple of hours then I noticed he started acting very eratic and was going I would say bonkers, spinning may times and slamming to the ground! The last time he did it, he stayed on the ground and looked dead. I took him out and put him back in the QT and started a dose of Prazi pro thinking it may be flukes or something. I then had to step out for a bit and when i returned, to my dreadful discovery I found him on the floor dead. He had jumped out to his death. Here are some pics of him in the DT (very short lived) and then back in the QT and then out:
I must say this was one of the most unbelievably saddest experiences I've gone through. I did loose a blue hippo tang a while ago but that fish was sick to begin with. This powder brown was healthy and my QT experience was going well so I don't know where things went wrong, makes me even question the use of QT at all. I have a cardinal fish in my QT as a permanent resident to keep it cycled and it is doing fine with no issues and water parameters are fine. Oh well.
Now the good. Added some new corals and clams and they are doing great. Here are some pics:
This is my update. I'm hoping this string of losses with my fish does not continue. Although i did also add a royal gramma and it is doing great so not a string but nonetheless.
Update
Haven't posted to this thread in a while so I thought I would give an update on my tank and recent events with it, good and bad.
First the bad: Lost my LTA when i was away on vacation for a week. When i returned, it had moved and got caught in one of my mp40's it seems and I found it face down in the sand. When i turned it over, this is how it looked:
A few days later, my RBTA also got caught in the mp40 (you would have thought that i learned my lesson and put my foam covers on...not!) but he is recovering nicely i believe. Anyhow, right now he attached himself under my Goniopora. Here is a pic when he first attached after the encounter with the mp40:
I also picked up last week a six line wrasse, put him in and all seemed fine but that day was the last i saw it. It will be one week tomorrow and its still MIA.
Loosing my LTA was very dissapointing but I understand this happens with these animals. My most recent loss (today) is really disheartening. Going on 4 and half weeks now, i have been keeping a beautiful powder brown tang in my QT. I put him in the QT the day I got him and been following a preventative treatment for him which included the use of Prazi Pro the first week followed by 2 weeks in Hyposalinity. He was doing great during this treatment and was eating very well. Things changed this week for the worst though. As of this past Monday i started noticing that his appetite was diminishing to nothing and he was acting lethargic. I decided to end my hypo treatment one week early and start bringing the salinity up to match my DT so I can transfer him. I brought it up over the next 4 days and he was still acting the same way more or less. Here is a short video on his behavior:
http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/tassod/media/IMG_0437_zpseb7e49e5.mp4.html
Often he would lay flat on the ground. In anycase I transfered him today to the DT. He kept to himself for the most part in one end of the tank but took a few strolls. Found it odd that he actually tried to pick at some of the corals. He was like this for a couple of hours then I noticed he started acting very eratic and was going I would say bonkers, spinning may times and slamming to the ground! The last time he did it, he stayed on the ground and looked dead. I took him out and put him back in the QT and started a dose of Prazi pro thinking it may be flukes or something. I then had to step out for a bit and when i returned, to my dreadful discovery I found him on the floor dead. He had jumped out to his death. Here are some pics of him in the DT (very short lived) and then back in the QT and then out:
I must say this was one of the most unbelievably saddest experiences I've gone through. I did loose a blue hippo tang a while ago but that fish was sick to begin with. This powder brown was healthy and my QT experience was going well so I don't know where things went wrong, makes me even question the use of QT at all. I have a cardinal fish in my QT as a permanent resident to keep it cycled and it is doing fine with no issues and water parameters are fine. Oh well.
Now the good. Added some new corals and clams and they are doing great. Here are some pics:
This is my update. I'm hoping this string of losses with my fish does not continue. Although i did also add a royal gramma and it is doing great so not a string but nonetheless.
