4”, and yet they really don’t take up much prime real estate. Other than swim up to grab food, they are generally on a rock or the bottom (as you probably know). Best wishes.
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The owner of the first LFS I used to go to did this with every fish he got in. Ironically I never lost a fish to disease from his store except for the two fish I tried to qt thinking it was the right thing to do.I sold 10 three month old Banggai Cardinal fish to my LFS last week. The guy looked in the bag and said they looked very healthy. I told him that I did a lot of husbandry to get them like this. He paid me $150 then promptly emptied them into a spare tank. No floating. No water mixing.
I never had a sick fish, coral or anemone from this store. Been buying from them for over 2 years. The supervisor said that if anything dies from doing this, they probably weren't fit enough to begin with.The owner of the first LFS I used to go to did this with every fish he got in. Ironically I never lost a fish to disease from his store except for the two fish I tried to qt thinking it was the right thing to do.
But my question was if there is any study showing a correlation between cyanide capture and the weakening of their immunity system?
Which store is that? I’ll have to go have a lookI never had a sick fish, coral or anemone from this store. Been buying from them for over 2 years. The supervisor said that if anything dies from doing this, they probably weren't fit enough to begin with.
I don't QT but I do float and swap water over a ~ 15 to 30 minute period. Then I get the fish eating asap.
Pet Magic Cannington West AustraliaWhich store is that? I’ll have to go have a look
I got a hippo tang last week just so I can say I have a tang. I personally find tangs boreing except for hippo's so I got one as they don't bore me to much. It is a very young one and when he gets big I may give him away.
I got him with this big white mark on him because I just told the LFS owner to catch me one of the many tangs he had in a tank and I didn't look at it.
But in a few days, with no help from me, the mark disappeared. Excuse him as he is pooping here
After a day in my tank he was scratching a little like tangs often do when you remove them from the copper in a dealer's tank, but that is over now and he continues to smile even though I never use a lettuce clip or feed nori. I don't have any anyway.
He eats what the other fish eat and he has to like it or buy his own food.;
Thanks Paul. I was hoping you had another magic bullet and agree that Prazi in the reef is like dropping a bunker buster bomb in a city to clean-up and mitigate an old leaking underground gasoline tank on a busy street corner. Too much potential for collateral damage but effective if the old station absolutely has to be excavated and fuel removed completely by tomorrow. I've been watching him and I think the string problem is going away and I'm going to try increasing food rations in the tank to see if I can bulk him up a bit. Otherwise, I'll have to net and get him into treatment.Kris, I really don't like to put medication of any kind in my tank especially if it's only one fish that I want to treat and I know how impossible it is to catch a foxface but PrizaPro is about the only easily acquired medication thing that may help that fish. Of course it may clear up on it's own. Supposedly you can put Prizapro in a coral reef tank but I personally have never done it. It will kill many types of worms, even worms that you may want to keep as not all worms are harmful. I don't know of a medication that will mix with food but I do recall medicated foods available, but I have never tried them.
If I were you, and the fish looks worse, I would really try to catch him and put him in a spare tank to treat with Prizapro. A week should do it. But remember we are guessing as we don't have fish MRIs and like in people we can't cure everything as the fish may have some obscure affliction .
Good luck.
@LasseIMO - a thin white poop is not automatically a sign of internal parasites. It is basically the fish getting ride of a mucus layer from the digestive tract and could be done of many reasons. The only disease there I have seen a tiny white poop as one of the indications of a disease is infection of diplomonad flagellates (hexamite like flagellates) but always together with other symptoms - the most important - not eating or spitting out food (the first day of the disease) And in this case - only drugs base on metronidazole or its derivatives are effective. And - very important to say - helminth infections (infection of internal worms) in the digestive tract can take place even without a tiny white stringy poop as an indication. If a fish eating good but loosing weight and get thinner and thinner - use anti helminth drugs like Prazi in the food. More discussion of the topic - in this thread
Sincerely Lasse
Do you treat them with anything while they are in quarantine or do you just observe them and treat if anything develops?Nice article but would I try this method?
I setup a new tank, cycled, started adding fish every week up to 10 fishes, then whichever fish got velvet had killed every fish in my tank every single day, I was feeding the flake food only. So based on your theory if i fed bacteria contained food the fish would've lived!
Its been more than a year since and i QT every two fishes i buy for a month before it goes to DT.
Do you treat them with anything while they are in quarantine or do you just observe them and treat if anything develops?
@Paul B
I picked up a Foxface lo a few weeks back because he looked doomed in the lfs and I had some bubble algae to feed him. The algae is gone and he is looking happier now but I did notice some of that "stringy poop" that is reported to be a sign of internal parasites.
Do you do anything special for fish with trail strings? I don't know if they make a fleet for a Foxface lo but I'd like to help him get clear if I can. Any specific help available beyond live nutrition? The fish looks kinda thin and lumpy along the lateral midsections and I hope to help improve this. Thanks.