jeffbrig
Premium Member
Okay, now for the bad news.
Take a close look at the side of the achilles tang.
Nope, those aren't bubbles. :mad2:
So, after tearing the tank apart, hyposalinity, then copper, and letting the tank sit fallow for a full 8 weeks, we still have ich. In fact, these started to pop up on the achilles just 2 and 1/2 days after he made it back into the display. Kinda blows that "2 months fallow" treatment out of the water, eh? I can't tell you how frustrating this is to see...
The good thing is, he's fat and healthy, so this isn't really a threat to him. At this point, we have no real options other that to just try to maintain the best conditions possible and let the fish fend it off themselves. I just can't help thinking about all the time and effort we wasted with a quarantine that was completely ineffective at ridding ourselves of this problem.
:uzi: ich
The next piece of bad news is that achilles' aggression towards the PBT has increased tenfold since we put them back in the display. For the last day or so, PBT hasn't been able to leave the safety of the rocks. Achilles spends all day going from one side of the rock to the other, backing in scalpel first, hounding the PBT mercifully. Unfortunately, PBT wasn't in great shape coming out of QT, and was looking very thin. Now he's being hounded around the clock and not getting much (if anything) to eat. And I was worried that achilles would go after the similarly colored tomini, which he hasn't even looked at.
At lunchtime today I found the PBT with a nice cut on one side, but couldn't catch him with a net before he made it back to the rocks. Tonight, he ventured out in the open again, with achilles on the attack. I was able to net him this time, and he had a very deep cut on his other side. It's almost as if achilles senses the PBT's weakness and is going for the kill. :sad1:
Tonight, the PBT is in the safety of the refugium. We're going to hold him in there and let him (hopefully) recover, then try to find a good, safe home for him. It's very sad, he's been such a docile fish, and pbt's are typically known for aggression.
Take a close look at the side of the achilles tang.
Nope, those aren't bubbles. :mad2:
So, after tearing the tank apart, hyposalinity, then copper, and letting the tank sit fallow for a full 8 weeks, we still have ich. In fact, these started to pop up on the achilles just 2 and 1/2 days after he made it back into the display. Kinda blows that "2 months fallow" treatment out of the water, eh? I can't tell you how frustrating this is to see...
The good thing is, he's fat and healthy, so this isn't really a threat to him. At this point, we have no real options other that to just try to maintain the best conditions possible and let the fish fend it off themselves. I just can't help thinking about all the time and effort we wasted with a quarantine that was completely ineffective at ridding ourselves of this problem.
:uzi: ich
The next piece of bad news is that achilles' aggression towards the PBT has increased tenfold since we put them back in the display. For the last day or so, PBT hasn't been able to leave the safety of the rocks. Achilles spends all day going from one side of the rock to the other, backing in scalpel first, hounding the PBT mercifully. Unfortunately, PBT wasn't in great shape coming out of QT, and was looking very thin. Now he's being hounded around the clock and not getting much (if anything) to eat. And I was worried that achilles would go after the similarly colored tomini, which he hasn't even looked at.
At lunchtime today I found the PBT with a nice cut on one side, but couldn't catch him with a net before he made it back to the rocks. Tonight, he ventured out in the open again, with achilles on the attack. I was able to net him this time, and he had a very deep cut on his other side. It's almost as if achilles senses the PBT's weakness and is going for the kill. :sad1:
Tonight, the PBT is in the safety of the refugium. We're going to hold him in there and let him (hopefully) recover, then try to find a good, safe home for him. It's very sad, he's been such a docile fish, and pbt's are typically known for aggression.
