Mandragen
New member
So I obtained this beautiful Powder Blue Tang, put it QT, and it was doing really well. The fish looked perfect, great behavior, eating well. There were a couple questionable spots on the pectoral fins, possible ich, but no signs otherwise and no signs on another fish that I have in there which I have seen with ich before, so I know the other fish doesn't have ich. I also read a forum on RC about someone who thought a tang looked good and then added the tang after QTing for a few weeks to display and ended up giving the display crypto. So I figured, knowing this PB tang was a crypto magnet, to treat with cupramine. I brought the levels of Cu up slowely and things look ok, a little labored breathing, but now the tang is just acting a bit nuts, rapid swimming, crazy rapid breathing. Outlook not so good in the QT tank, I don't think it will make it another 24 hrs from what I saw this morning. The Cu levels have been up for 2 days or so, the fish total QT time around 2 weeks. What do I do? Do I let it play out in the QT? Do I water change the QT, or carbon and bring down the Cu levels? Do I try to save the fish by putting it in the DT? Any advice is appreciated.
