My H. zoster

[elegance coral]

Sorry dude. That really sucks. Sometimes it's just their time I guess. I'm sure you did everything humanly possible.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Man.....

 

[Lynnmw1208]

oh no! sorry for the loss :sad1:

 

[Big E]

Sorry to hear, but it happens alot with those Indo collected BF's. Unless I have solid info on how the fish was collected & where I don't buy them.

I've lost several just as you have mentioned...............eating great looking healthy & dead the next day.

 

[SDguy]

Are you suggesting something like cyanide, or simply poor handling techniques? I would think a more open water fish like this wouldn't even need to be caught with any drugs. Either way, thanks for the kind words folks.

 

[elegance coral]

From what I've read/heard, the collectors in Indonesia are traveling farther and farther as they over fish local sites. This puts livestock on collection boats, in poor conditions, for longer periods of time. It seems to me that the quality of livestock (not just fish)coming out of Indonesia has dropped considerably over the years.

 

[SDguy]

It's really a shame.

 

[Big E]

Are you suggesting something like cyanide, or simply poor handling techniques?

Both are issues & probably a few more............this is just my opinion. I've been around this hobby too long not the see where the garbage comes from.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Ask them to order another one similarly sized and let it live at the fish store for a month or so before buying it!

 

[SDguy]

We had a reef club meeting at a LFS a couple months back, and they had a zoster. The LFS owner mentioned that it had been there for at least 6 months. Well, I went there yesterday, and they still had it, so I picked it up. It's larger than the one I lost, but still very nice!

 

[Daniel Reef]

We had a reef club meeting at a LFS a couple months back, and they had a zoster. The LFS owner mentioned that it had been there for at least 6 months. Well, I went there yesterday, and they still had it, so I picked it up. It's larger than the one I lost, but still very nice!

Happy to hear about this good news. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

Yes! the little guy would have grown to the one you have anyway!

 

[flameangel88]

Peter,

Glad to see you found another one. If they had it for 6 months that should be pretty good. Any pics?

I was at the lfs today picking up salt and saw one that's about 4" normally that's too big for me but I remember they had it for some time now so I took a chance. It's in QT and ate frozen and flakes & pellets after only 4 hours in the tank. I've two lighting zone where the left side is brighter and the right side lower (one of those par38 18W led from home depot) and it tends to hang in the lower light side except during feeding. If everything goes well in a couple of weeks it will be going into a 120.

Here's a vid eating pellets

 

[geaux xman]

Sad news to report. Came home from work today to a dead fish. He looked perfect... ate like a horse just last night. Not a spot, not a mark, not a twitch.

These fish look similar to Pyramids. I had a 4" pair from LA that was eating like horses for over a week and died overnight due to an unknown reason. I had dose copper, but it was only the initial .25ppm dose and it was 3 days prior.

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

Peter,

I was at the lfs today picking up salt and saw one that's about 4" normally that's too big for me but I remember they had it for some time now so I took a chance. It's in QT and ate frozen and flakes & pellets after only 4 hours in the tank.

Here's a vid eating pellets

That fish is eating great and it looks like a good find. Nice QT. What other fish are in the QT?

 

[flameangel88]

Thanks. I've a pair of dalmatian mollies and a hawkfish in the QT to keep it going. I wanted hardy fish that's not expensive or dull looking and came up with them. They'll show the new fish to eat prepared food and not leaving any on the bottom. More importantly they will not bully the new fish.

You can see them better on this one

 

[Dr Colliebreath]

Interesting, I thought the two with black looked like mollies. I have heard of people putting them in salty or brackish water. Did you have to acclimate them slowly to the saltwater?

Given the other three fish and the rock, I take it that you don't generally treat fish in the QT with Cupramine and just move a fish to a hospital tank if you need to treat??

Sorry to deviate from the thread's topic.

 

[aleonn]

I had a zoster before that ate like a pig for the first 3 weeks in QT. Then one day it was hiding in the rocks with bilateral cloudy eyes, nipped fins, and sudden loss of appetite. Read on this forum that they often come with flukes, so I did a freshwater dip. At least 20-30 flukes came out during the 6 minute dip. That provided immediate relief and he began eating like a pig the next day. The eyes cleared up within a few days, and I did 2 treatment rounds of Prazi-Pro. He was eating well for the next 2 weeks until he suddenly died with no other visible signs or symptoms. I fresh water dipped his corpse to see if any more flukes would appear, but there were none.

I hope the best for your new zoster, and maybe you can prophylatically treat him while in QT in case anything pops up later on.

 

[flameangel88]

Interesting, I thought the two with black looked like mollies. I have heard of people putting them in salty or brackish water. Did you have to acclimate them slowly to the saltwater?

Given the other three fish and the rock, I take it that you don't generally treat fish in the QT with Cupramine and just move a fish to a hospital tank if you need to treat??

Sorry to deviate from the thread's topic.

The mollies were acclimated for about 45 minutes by adding a cup of tank water every 5 minutes then over the next 5 days to 1.022-23. I can treat with prazi in the QT (if the new fish has it then it's already in the water) hand I've another tank for copper but I prefer hypo if it's simply ichs.

 

[SDguy]

A pic of the new one from today. One round of prazi just in case, then into the DT: