ACBlinky
Premium Member
Just as soon as the new fish went into the display, they've had to come right back out. Somehow, despite time in the QT with copper, they've managed to contract ich. The yellow tang showed spots first, then the kole and flame broke out the next day.
Spent half a day tearing 2/3 of the reef apart -- good fun, tearing apart nearly a hundred pounds of rock that has been epoxied together -- because despite removing nearly all the water, the darn fish managed to wedge themselves into crevices I simply couldn't extract them from. Try catching a 3/4" clown goby in a 150g tank; he ended up wedged into a lovely porous 10lb rock, getting him out took serious patience, creativity, and toolmaking skills.
Anyway ALL the fish, old and new, are in quarantine. It's a new tank, because the old QT sprung a leak a while back, which was another FUN journey. This hobby is kicking my behind. I feel a bit like one of those punching clowns -- it hits me hard, but so far I keep bouncing back up.
I've decided that if I want to add ANY more fish or corals, I'm doing it now. These damn fish will stay in quarantine, in copper, for a full twelve weeks after I see the last spot drop off the last fish. Nothing else, not a single drop of water, will EVER enter the display after that unless it has been super-duper quarantined, scrubbed, sterilized, dried out, powdered, reconstituted, given CPR and a clean bill of health by seventeen independent doctors.
I strongly dislike dealing with this damn parasite, it's ruining my 'stress-relieving' hobby :S
Oh, and have I mentioned that today's my birthday? Whee!
Spent half a day tearing 2/3 of the reef apart -- good fun, tearing apart nearly a hundred pounds of rock that has been epoxied together -- because despite removing nearly all the water, the darn fish managed to wedge themselves into crevices I simply couldn't extract them from. Try catching a 3/4" clown goby in a 150g tank; he ended up wedged into a lovely porous 10lb rock, getting him out took serious patience, creativity, and toolmaking skills.
Anyway ALL the fish, old and new, are in quarantine. It's a new tank, because the old QT sprung a leak a while back, which was another FUN journey. This hobby is kicking my behind. I feel a bit like one of those punching clowns -- it hits me hard, but so far I keep bouncing back up.
I've decided that if I want to add ANY more fish or corals, I'm doing it now. These damn fish will stay in quarantine, in copper, for a full twelve weeks after I see the last spot drop off the last fish. Nothing else, not a single drop of water, will EVER enter the display after that unless it has been super-duper quarantined, scrubbed, sterilized, dried out, powdered, reconstituted, given CPR and a clean bill of health by seventeen independent doctors.
I strongly dislike dealing with this damn parasite, it's ruining my 'stress-relieving' hobby :S
Oh, and have I mentioned that today's my birthday? Whee!