My C. aurantia

[tcmfish]

Just got home from work. Both still alive. The larger one can still swim pretty good, but rests on the bottom or sponge filter alot...

I added another dose of cupramine and will re-test in an hour or so. I removed the biomedia rocks and left the sponge material in the aquaclear and the large sponge filter and the bioballs in.

I think their days are numbered unfortunately.

I am more frustrated with test kit than the sick fish. I feel like I could save them if I had the right amount of meds in the water. I know I can't save every fish, it just sucks that the parasite is still spreading not just surviving after dosing.

 

[blface]

I agree the Seachem copper test kit really sux to get an accurate reading.

 

[tcmfish]

The big guy finally gave up today. The little one is looking better, and I will try and pair him up again if I find another healthy individual.

 

[tcmfish]

So it has been a week into copper and prazi and the little guy is eating with gusto again. He is doing swimmingly and I will pair him up eventually.

 

[SDguy]

Glad to hear you saved the little guy!

 

[Sheol]

A definite argument for qting new fish! (Something that can be hard to do with dwarf angels though..)

Matthew

 

[tcmfish]

Yes definitely a good idea to QT. If I had put the new guy in a tank full of fish and inverts who knows what the losses would have totaled. But I was able to save the little guy and now he eats like a champ again and comes darting out for his flake food and is more active again. He will be in QT for a while still though and probably go through another round of copper and prazi just to be safe. I will be filling the 58 this week and it will need some time to establish itself.

 

[tcmfish]

Update time!!!!! It has been 8 months now. The little bugger just started eating live blackworms now. He has since been moved over to the 58 gallon and is doing great! Always in view. He doesn't come to the front of the tank when I am sitting there, but when I walk in the room sometimes he is roaming the front.

Here are some pics. I know all you crazy photography people will be dying to ask what camera I am using... state of the art cell phone pics!

 

[tcmfish]

After looking at the pictures, the fish looks much more orange in person. On one side of the tank there is a 10k halide and it really brings out the color in this fish.

 

[tcmfish]

FWIW, the golden angel just took Reed Mariculture's Otohime's EP1 Pellet food (1.7mm)! Pretty cool.

 

[ptychoptera]

Glad to see your golden angel is doing well.
I'm the person who sold you that fish way back then.
That's still the only golden we've had who ate flake so eagerly.
I probably fed him half a dozen times each day.
(I've never been accused of underfeeding fish.)
Keep up the good work.
Nice mowbrayis, btw.

 

[tcmfish]

He now eats spectrum pellets as well. He also nips coral as well but does no real damage to my Sps. I really hope to pair him soon.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

What brand/formula of flake are you feeding?

 

[tcmfish]

I feed him Omega One Garlic Marine Flakes.

 

[flameangel88]

He now eats spectrum pellets as well. He also nips coral as well but does no real damage to my Sps. I really hope to pair him soon.

LA have the golden on sale this week but it's not DD.

 

[tcmfish]

I know and I just got a credit for Foster and Smith through the recent MACI event, BUT in the process of moving and will have to put the tank and fish purchases on hold for a while.