... beginning of the wek I went to my LFS to see if he had anything nice. In one of the tanks a small C. tominiensis was hiding in the far corner, gasping and looking really bad. An A. japonicus was really bullying him. The shop owner said there was no need to put him into a different tank, as he wasn't expecting him to make it until the evening.
I know... buying a fish bcause you feel sorry is bad, but I just couldn't leave the little guy in there. I paid 10,-€ for him and took him home.
His back fin was really torn. So I decided (after a friend recommended it) to cut the edges smooth and put him in some medication to clean the wound. He stayed in there for about two hours while I drip adjusted him to my tank water.
I put him into my smaller frag tank toghether with a small foxface I cared back to health, a rock mover wrasse and a blenny. They are in a 100g tank. The first few days I didn't see the tang. But now he's comming out more a swims around a lot. Just as soon as anything moves in the room he's gone. He's eating like a pig (flake food, frozen brine shrimps, fresh brine shrimps and mysis, algae sheets (green, purple, red and brown), wakame algae and banana. I dose vitamins daily and soak the food in garlic once a day. His fin is looking good. I can see no signs of an infection (as far as can check... can't go too close or he will hide. But luckily he's brown so any spots would show right off). Today I took some pics. Sorry for the crappy quality. Had to use a zoom lens. Ignore the Aiptasia... I've got loads of them and my peppermints are really slow eating them :lol2:
I know... buying a fish bcause you feel sorry is bad, but I just couldn't leave the little guy in there. I paid 10,-€ for him and took him home.
His back fin was really torn. So I decided (after a friend recommended it) to cut the edges smooth and put him in some medication to clean the wound. He stayed in there for about two hours while I drip adjusted him to my tank water.
I put him into my smaller frag tank toghether with a small foxface I cared back to health, a rock mover wrasse and a blenny. They are in a 100g tank. The first few days I didn't see the tang. But now he's comming out more a swims around a lot. Just as soon as anything moves in the room he's gone. He's eating like a pig (flake food, frozen brine shrimps, fresh brine shrimps and mysis, algae sheets (green, purple, red and brown), wakame algae and banana. I dose vitamins daily and soak the food in garlic once a day. His fin is looking good. I can see no signs of an infection (as far as can check... can't go too close or he will hide. But luckily he's brown so any spots would show right off). Today I took some pics. Sorry for the crappy quality. Had to use a zoom lens. Ignore the Aiptasia... I've got loads of them and my peppermints are really slow eating them :lol2:
