How can I make a pair of Lemonpeels?

[Idle Moor]

Small update on a small fish. She is still in her overflow box and eating 4x per day, plus picking at a nori sheet I always have hanging in there. It's working well as I can target feed her large amounts of small sized food. She has grown a noticeable amount in the past week and looks more beefy and substantial, and less delicate and tiny. I could probably move her to egg crate but as I said this is working for now. I'm guessing a couple/few more weeks of feeding her like this and I can release her to the tank at large.

The large lemonpeel does make lunges at her on occasion, but it's about what would be expected from a fish showing dominance.

 

[Idle Moor]

This thread has now become about bringing up baby. Unfortunately, she has now decided to no longer eat, after two weeks of being a pig eating four times a day. Now she will touch none of the food she used to love. She just looks at it and swims away, sometimes taking a peck at the side of her container that has started to get a bit of algae growth. I have been putting sheets of nori in with her and although I don't see her eating it, it does disappear.

I put a half a clam shell in with her that had some shreds of meat still clinging to it and she did indeed tear at that. I'm not convinced she ate any however as I saw her spitting out some shreds she had pulled loose.

She seems otherwise healthy. Her poop has been stringy, pretty much from the start, but that's the only anomaly.

I'm busy hatching some brine shrimp to tempt her with now. No idea what's going on.

 

[Toddrtrex]

What color is the stringy poop? Is it "breathing" any faster?

Might want to pick up some prazi pro.

 

[Idle Moor]

What color is the stringy poop? Is it "breathing" any faster?

Might want to pick up some prazi pro.

The stringy poop was fairly light colored although I wouldn't say white. The fish was supposed to have been treated w Prazi at DD.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I would try it again, I have had those symptoms (( or I should say that my fish have )), and dosed some prazi and had good results. Plus, it won't hurt anything -- I have used it in my reef tank, with anemones, clams, SPS, etc and didn't have any issues.

 

[Idle Moor]

I would try it again, I have had those symptoms (( or I should say that my fish have )), and dosed some prazi and had good results. Plus, it won't hurt anything -- I have used it in my reef tank, with anemones, clams, SPS, etc and didn't have any issues.

Interesting. I still have the angel isolated so getting her out and treating her separately wouldn't be a problem. Just have to get some of the stuff.

 

[Idle Moor]

I put a fresh piece of live rock in her enclosure and she is actually picking at that fairly enthusiastically. She has refused everything else, only picking at clams and scallop a little bit. Maybe it's time to just let her go into the main tank and see how she does.

 

[Idle Moor]

And now suddenly as if by magic, she is flashing against the rocks. Great. After two weeks. Whoever suggested quarantine, I salute you. These fish suck sometimes.

 

[Idle Moor]

She is in quarantine now. I just lifted her and her box out of the tank and put her in her new home. Not sure what to do next. Trying to get some prazi asap.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Not sure where you live, but I know the PetSmart by me carries it, so you might want to check there if your LFS doesn't have any.

 

[Idle Moor]

Not sure where you live, but I know the PetSmart by me carries it, so you might want to check there if your LFS doesn't have any.

Thanks for the tip, I am going to have to go to PetSmart today for salt and I probably wouldn't have thought to even try to find it there.

She is swimming around fine this morning. No flashing, but these things come and go by the hour I know. No interest in food. I have on hand Melafix and Cupramine, and hopefully Prazipro by lunch.

 

[Idle Moor]

Went to Petco (not PetSmart as my friend there reminded me, lol) at lunch and no prazi. Called PetSmart and checked their website and they don't have it either. So I'm waiting on the mail order to come in ... but wasn't going to pay for overnight delivery. This is already ridiculous enough.

 

[Idle Moor]

Ok so here is what I did. She spent the last 24 hrs in a bucket with a heater and a powerhead to which I had added a low dose of Melafix and Cupramine - as I said the only things I had on hand. This morning and this evening she was no longer flashing, but was also still not eating, and is now paper thin. I decided for better or worse that her only hope was to go into the main tank, figuring that whatever she had the rest of the tank had already been exposed ti while she was in her isolation box.

I gave her a short freshwater dip and set her loose. She seems ok, and the other fish are ignoring her. She is also doing some significant picking at the rocks as well. I must say she is adorable in there swimming in and out of the tiniest holes in the rocks. I wish I had more hope for seeing her do that for very long.

 

[Idle Moor]

Well my little girl hasn't been sighted in about 24 hrs and is assumed lost at sea at this point. She had been quite bold and swimming in the open when she was first put into the main tank so I think this is a fair assumption.

Not a great first mail-order fish experience certainly but I don't really know what to blame for her decline. If it was internal parasites then I don't know how she could have picked them up once she got here. None of my other fish seem to be suffering from them and she was always in her overflow box, and was never fed live food. I would hope that the prophylactic treatments that she supposedly recieved at DD would have taken care of anything that she had before she got to me, but if the the stringy poop was a symptom then she had that from the start.

I'll pick this thread up again when I have another prospective mate in my sights. Meanwhile, the (probable) male is growing quickly so finding a fish smaller than he is will only get easier.

 

[Idle Moor]

Ok one last quick update before putting this fish to rest. Live Aquaria has agreed to credit my account with the purchase price of the fish on the basis of her possibly having an internal parasite when she was shipped. That's pretty outstanding of them I think.