POWDER BLUE TANG suggestions pls

[Gogandantess]

this may be wrong, but when i bought my PBT or for that matter any other fish all i do is make sure it looks healthy when i buy it, take a real good look while acclimating it and just drop it in the tank when it is done acclimating.

i have never once had an ich outbreak. my PBT ate mysis the first day and grazed the rocks for algea. only thing i noticed with mine is how aggressive it is if you introduce a new fish to the tank. my wife just had to have a new flame hawk after seeing it in the store and it barely survived the first night. the PBT turned into a shark that was in a feeding frenzy. beyond that the PBT is pretty shy, a pretty good eater and friendly to all the other tankmates.

Knock on wood. It's bound to happen sooner or later. Tangs definitely need to be qurantined especially the ich monster such as a PBT.

 

[gwlaws]

I think you are reducing your salinity just fine... Reducing over a 3 day period worked for me. However, when you increase salinity do it more slowly as the adjustment is harder on fish.

I have use hypo twice with good results on a tang and wrasse. For me, the hardest part was adjusting the PH and salinity when making water changes in the QT. I had a 20 gal QT and perhaps 10 gal is too small. Good Luck.

 

[NexDog]

Thing with hypo is it takes a while to rupture skeletons of inverts. I once hypo'd a bunch of live rock and after 2 weeks stuff started to ooze out the rock, hence I believe it takes 2 weeks to work.

So if you get a fish and it breaks out in ich before then the ich will beat you, and the fish.

Therefore, what I do, is Formalin dips when I first get a fish. This seems to knock off a good proportion of any ich poplation, buying the fish the time it needs if it has Ich already. I also dose Formalin in the QT for the forst few weeks of hypo.

The PBT is an incredible active fish. It paces up and down my tank non-stop all day so I think an ich infected PBT would do better in a larger QT. If it doesn't have ich, and therefore can handle more stress, a smaller QT would be viable.