ThePaliga
New Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2015
- Location
- Amherstburg
Good Morning Guys.
So yesterday, as I'm sure everyone is aware, there were some pretty good deals out there... Including a Kole Tang for $25 in the states. Fish was swimming around the giant tank like nothing, picking at rocks and loving life. I will admit, I didn't fully examine the fish before my girlfriend decided we had to have him. First opps... The border guard was more interested in how he could start a saltwater tank than he was on bothering me about the fish. Seems like a great day.
Well, we got him home. As I was setting up the QT, I asked my girlfriend to float the bag until I could get everything ready. To her this meant float the bag, watch the fish get stressed trying to escape the bag, feel terrible that this wild creature is stuck in a little plastic cage and decide to free the tang so that he could go swim freely. Second opps.
My parameters are on point but I had no idea what the FS' water looked like. Worried all night until this morning when the new member was swimming freely, checking out all the new rock, testing out hiding holes and such. Sounds like I lucked out. Wrong.
The tang is covered in ich. Probably close to a dozen or so spots on him and I can't seem to catch him without ripping ALL of my LR out. He set up camp under one of the huge base pieces (almost 2 feet long piece at the very bottom, supporting the majority of the scape on that side of the tank).
So I guess I have to ask everyone's opinion. It's a mixed reef with about 60+lbs of live rock, coral, inverts and fish. I can't seem to catch the tang to QT him. What's next?
So yesterday, as I'm sure everyone is aware, there were some pretty good deals out there... Including a Kole Tang for $25 in the states. Fish was swimming around the giant tank like nothing, picking at rocks and loving life. I will admit, I didn't fully examine the fish before my girlfriend decided we had to have him. First opps... The border guard was more interested in how he could start a saltwater tank than he was on bothering me about the fish. Seems like a great day.
Well, we got him home. As I was setting up the QT, I asked my girlfriend to float the bag until I could get everything ready. To her this meant float the bag, watch the fish get stressed trying to escape the bag, feel terrible that this wild creature is stuck in a little plastic cage and decide to free the tang so that he could go swim freely. Second opps.
My parameters are on point but I had no idea what the FS' water looked like. Worried all night until this morning when the new member was swimming freely, checking out all the new rock, testing out hiding holes and such. Sounds like I lucked out. Wrong.
The tang is covered in ich. Probably close to a dozen or so spots on him and I can't seem to catch him without ripping ALL of my LR out. He set up camp under one of the huge base pieces (almost 2 feet long piece at the very bottom, supporting the majority of the scape on that side of the tank).
So I guess I have to ask everyone's opinion. It's a mixed reef with about 60+lbs of live rock, coral, inverts and fish. I can't seem to catch the tang to QT him. What's next?