trying again...

[hllywd]

 

[zaireguy]

super nice timmy man I need one of those

 

[hllywd]

Well I haven't had the greatest of luck recently so I have my fingers crossed. I'm going to keep him QTed for quite a while and see what happens...

Tim

 

[zaireguy]

where did you get him?

 

[hllywd]

Of all places.... PSP:eek1:

 

[Spuds725]

I'd put the QT on the other side of the house

 

[zaireguy]

good god man psp

 

[hllywd]

Yeah, well, I was back out there last night and they had a brand new just in 4 - 5" PBT... I need to get over that obsession...:hmm4: They've got a nice achilles too...


Tim

 

[hllywd]

.... and a moorish idol.....

Tim

 

[hllywd]

If I could just get this naso to eat anything besides caulerpa I'd be in good shape...

 

[hllywd]

DEAD.

He had finally started eating frozen Prime Reef the last couple of days and seemed to be doing great till my wife found him this morning. I hand fed him around 10:00 last night and lights off around 11:00, all was well. At 8:00am he was dead.

No new fish have survived since the PBT from PSP incident back in the summer. Guess maybe I'll stay away and be happy with my corals or maybe say screw it and save a ton of cash. I've never in 20 years had this kind of problem or even close to it.

Since August this makes:

1 - 5" PBT
1 - 3.5" PBT
1 - 5-6" Hippo
1 - 3" Hippo
1 - 5" Naso
1 - 3" Naso
1 - 4" pearlscale Jawfish
1 - %&$#ing bucket full of money.

TIM:mad2: :mad2: :mad2:

 

[zaireguy]

are you sure there is no chance there is a mantis in there?seems like you have lost a lot of fish to ich seems there is something eles going on

 

[hllywd]

This wasn't ich. Just up and died over night. The peppermint shrimp in the QT/frag tank wouldn't survive a mantis. What ever is going on started with the PBT last summer. I bought a tiny yellow tang just a few weeks prior to that and it is doing great, probably tripled in size sharing my 30G with the spawning tomatoes. Nothing since then has survived more than two weeks except the smaller PBT I got at Jack's I threw half a gallon of Kick Ich at him and he died of what looked like ich. My smaller fish in the 58 have shown signs of the same thing but pulled through (coral beauty, spotted hawk, six line, and even the Petco false Perc...).

 

[zaireguy]

I would remove the fish from the main tank for a month.that way any thing in there will not live without a host

 

[hllywd]

Say I move the 4 fish to QT and the 58 gets better (if there's something bad in there). Don't the fish have to be carrying whatever it is to assume that if they are gone the tank gets better? What would I treat them for, they aren't sick.

I know PBTs are ich magnets but from what I've read, once established they are pretty hardy just like hippos. I brought the little hippo and naso home, they got sick simultaneously and died within a few hours of each other.

I'm afraid to buy anything else, Can't afford to be throwing cash out the window you know...

Maybe all PSP's fish die within a week hell I don't know...

Tim

 

[zaireguy]

if you put them in qt treat them anyways at least you know nothing will be in the main tank.I would say psp needs tolook at how they house fish

 

[hllywd]

PSP needs to ditch the A-Hole I talked to today...:mad2:

 

[jenghes]

I also doubt that it is a mantis. I have a mantis, he never bothers my free swimming fish. Clowns, Yellow Tang, Hippo, Damsel, Pseudochromis have all been fine for up to 5 years.

Now, rock dwelling fishes like firefish, gobies etc (and shrimp) come up MIA at times.

Good luck on solving the tank issue. I think that you are on the right track letting the tank go fallow for a while.