WharfRat
Celebrating 9 sober years
You'd think after 35+ years of keeping fish I'd know better.
I failed to follow one of the most basic and important aspects of fish keeping. I didn't quarantine a new Ocellaris clown I got from a store I've never dealt with before. Looked good at the store. No signs of stress or clamped fins, or fin rot..it was a very nice looking clown. So home it came and having family in town I skipped the QT so I could see if the new guy would hang with my rbta and after a couple hours of hiding it started checking out the anemone. Woohoo..short lived. Three days later the clowns missing and so is the lavender dottyback. Next day the cherub angel is dirt napping. Next day the yellow watchman goby is history. And that leads us to whats left. Kole tang is stable with 4 spots of ich that I'm monotoring very closely, the falco hak and the six line wrasse seem to be fine, the coral and CuC are unscathed.
I'm not writting this looking for reasons why they kicked..short of an autopsy its hard to tell. Why I am writting this is to give credence to the need to quarantine even the best looking specimens you bring home. So this next two days being my week end I am putting up a 20H in my bedroom that'll be my QT from this day forward. No more additions due to impulse. On a brighter note though..I got a really nice frag of birdsnest and arco milli from the place I got the clown and will continue to trade with them in the future.
:moron: they need this smiley made!
Fred
I failed to follow one of the most basic and important aspects of fish keeping. I didn't quarantine a new Ocellaris clown I got from a store I've never dealt with before. Looked good at the store. No signs of stress or clamped fins, or fin rot..it was a very nice looking clown. So home it came and having family in town I skipped the QT so I could see if the new guy would hang with my rbta and after a couple hours of hiding it started checking out the anemone. Woohoo..short lived. Three days later the clowns missing and so is the lavender dottyback. Next day the cherub angel is dirt napping. Next day the yellow watchman goby is history. And that leads us to whats left. Kole tang is stable with 4 spots of ich that I'm monotoring very closely, the falco hak and the six line wrasse seem to be fine, the coral and CuC are unscathed.
I'm not writting this looking for reasons why they kicked..short of an autopsy its hard to tell. Why I am writting this is to give credence to the need to quarantine even the best looking specimens you bring home. So this next two days being my week end I am putting up a 20H in my bedroom that'll be my QT from this day forward. No more additions due to impulse. On a brighter note though..I got a really nice frag of birdsnest and arco milli from the place I got the clown and will continue to trade with them in the future.
:moron: they need this smiley made!
Fred
