Funny you should ask. A year ago, I was searching for a Chevron- it was one of those times when no one had one. Fernando got one in, and he looked pretty nice, and he said he'd eaten. I took him home and put him in QT. This was Fri. He nibbled a little on the rock, but took no food offerings. By Sun. he has just swimming back and forth nervously. I called Fernando who suggested I acclimate him to the reef- "perhaps there was something in my QT, as it's in the laundry room." After a long acclimation- I put him in the reef. When I fed the other fish, he swam around excitedly, but on close observation- ate nothing. The next morning he came out, ate nothing, and died a few hours later. He was really stuck in the rocks, and had to take the tank partially apart. Fernando felt it was myQT tank- as it's in the laundry room (I'm extremely careful). I took the chevron to my vet- who's very knowledgeable about fish ( he once anesthetized my regal, and fixed him). He did a necropsy and could find nothing- could be cyanide- but for that testing, it would have involved sending him out, and considerable more expense. This left me with no resolution. I went to George's at Reef Aquar.- bought a clown- who was next on my list, put him in the QT (along with all the laundry detergent) and he was, of course a- ok. Long story short, Fernando had a Kole that he'd had for a couple of weeks and was fine, so I decided to have him hold him (originally, I was between a Kole and a Chevron) When I came to get him a few days later, something had happened to him the day before, and he had died. I was livid, had I come 2 days earlier, I would have taken home a perfectly fine fish, who would have once again died on my watch! These are the kind of things that make people leave this hobby. It's tough enough- not knowing how things are collected, or at what depth, etc. It took me a while to step foot in the store again. A couple of weeks later, I bought Daphne, my current Chevron, from Rich at Boardroom. That was about a year ago.
Probably more info than you wanted to know!
The orange sponge looks nice in the tank- but I can' find him in the books. What is his scietific name? Regards, Dawn