I've had a pair of picassos for about a year and a half and when I got home from a family vacation yesterday they ended up looking like this:
Please excuse the particles in the water, I just got done doing a water change.
Those two pics are of the female, the male is hanging out on the back side of the rock where the anemone is stationed, which is very unusual for him. He does not look as bad as the female. Both are eating like pigs and the female is acting perfectly normal. They were showing some signs of potential spawning so I'm really hoping the male is tending to some eggs, especially since he does not look anywhere near as infected as the female. I'm pretty sure this is wishful thinking and I would really like to believe that he'll be ok
While on vacation I also lost a tailspot blenny and a midas blenny, as well as a blue tang (which was not QT'd and was recently added...a stupid mistake that I regret making).
What are your thoughts on these two? I've been soaking their food in garlic and feeding them small meals several times daily. I'm concerned that taking them out of the tank and putting them in a QT tank would be more stressful than leaving them in their home and hoping they can get over this just with good nutrition.
Please excuse the particles in the water, I just got done doing a water change.
Those two pics are of the female, the male is hanging out on the back side of the rock where the anemone is stationed, which is very unusual for him. He does not look as bad as the female. Both are eating like pigs and the female is acting perfectly normal. They were showing some signs of potential spawning so I'm really hoping the male is tending to some eggs, especially since he does not look anywhere near as infected as the female. I'm pretty sure this is wishful thinking and I would really like to believe that he'll be ok
While on vacation I also lost a tailspot blenny and a midas blenny, as well as a blue tang (which was not QT'd and was recently added...a stupid mistake that I regret making). What are your thoughts on these two? I've been soaking their food in garlic and feeding them small meals several times daily. I'm concerned that taking them out of the tank and putting them in a QT tank would be more stressful than leaving them in their home and hoping they can get over this just with good nutrition.
