Good save! Glad you got him in time. I've had a few triggers jump out on me before, unfortunately I didn't find them in time.

Stupid ass! When I fed the fish this morning he damn near did it again! His gluttony will do him in yet: So eager for the food he jumped out of the water, bounced off the euro-bracing and fell back into the water. Soaked me and scared the $hit out of his tankmates.

Damn! He got lucky last time you were there to save his piggy azz::mrgreen:

Mine wasn't so lucky.. He died overnight in the rocks and I had to tear the rock work apart to get him out.. Damn fish!

:cry: Sorry to hear this Shelley.

PICKLED BRITTLE STARS

Cleaned a couple of powerheads this morning in a vinegar bath. I'm used to seeing a few mini-brittle stars in there but 32 of them! WTF do they do in there anyway? :noidea:

Wow
I guess they get an easy meal in there

Hey! It's been a while since I posted anything on the tank. (have been very busy with this & that)
Not much has changed, except for the fact that I had to treat a red flatworm infestation yesterday. I siphoned out as many as I could and then used a half dose of Salifert Flatworm Exit. Suckers were dying within 15 minutes. There was easily 5x more of them than I thought. I scooped out literally thousands of dead ones that were swirling around in the water column. Via a Fluval 405, and 2x TLF reactors and 1x BRS reactor I ran about 5 lbs. of carbon. Even with this much carbon the corals and Nem showed distress almost immediately. Pretty scary there for awhile! It wasn't until early evening that some of them started to open up again. Everything looks ok this morning. I've never had to treat for flatworms before, should I leave the carbon running for a bit longer?

I would change some of the carbon and let it run for longer.

Ha! I just changed half of it 10 mins ago.

Atta boy!

if you can treat again Lance i would trust me. the big thing that people dont understand is the amount of worms in the tank. they can multiply so fast too. so when people are calculating the amount of water and rock and sand they underestimate. Just make sure you over estimate if you are running that much carbon it wont effect your stuff trust me. GL

Thanks Mikey. I'm going to let things be for a few days first I think. Some of the corals are still pouting.

Three weeks since I treated for flat worms, and they're back. Worse, Bubba the trigger has gone totally blind. I attribute it to the ingestion of dead and dying flat worms. He was chasing them around in the water column and eating them. I tried scaring him off the best I could, and caught up as many as I could with a fine net but I know he ate quite a few. I first noticed he was having trouble several days after the treatment. He was having trouble grabbing pieces of food. He usually gets more than his share at feeding time. As the weeks went by he was getting worse and worse. I started having to use a feeding stick and finally had to remove him to the QT tank. He is now totally blind and except for feeding time, spends all his time with his head in the rocks and his trigger locked in. I suppose the humane thing to do is put him out of his misery, but I wanted to be sure there is no hope for him first. I've been researching blindness in fishes, but can't find a whole lot of info. Anybody run into this before: I know the flat worms can be toxic but there are some fish who eat them regularly. Maybe dead flat worms are more toxic than live ones?

Yes the dead ones are toxic Lance. Thats why its best to siphon out as many as possible first and then have lots of floss or socks in the exit and change frequent and lots and lots of carbon.

I had to treat my 225g several times and usually over suggested dosage to eradicate most of them. My wrasse,s and mandarins cleaned up the rest I imagine or they just died out.

One of my large clowns back then, went bug eyed. Not sure if its the same but he recovered eventually.

Sorry to hear that Lance.

Total bummer Lance. I know how you feel as I lost my male trigger a while ago. Still would like to get another.

It appears Bubba is regaining sight in one eye. He can now see well enough to catch larger pieces of food by himself. I still have to use the feeding stick to get the food within 6" of him so he can see it, but at least he can now find his own food. He now even comes out of his hidey-hole for several slow laps around the tank every hour or so. Go Bubba go! :biggrin:

w00t!! Good News Lance. Hope he makes a good recovery!

......Sigh...........So I guess I'll have to convert the 33g QT to a permanent home for Bubba. No way can he go back into the display with his very limited eyesight. Even if the bullies don't kill him he won't get enough food. :cry:

Note to self: Never, ever hand-feed a 6" blind trigger. "OUCH"

sorry to hear Lance. thankfully you're able to do that before his tankmate's kill him.

Aww bummer, I had high hopes for him. I recently had a wrasse go through the same thing, it had popeye for awhile then it receded but he was blind in one eye. He seemed to do fine and it wasn't until about a month later that I realized he had gone blind in the other eye (without any eye enlargement) and there was no way he could find food even when I was holding it right in front of him. I finally had to put him down. The whole thing was incredibly depressing. Not sure if I could have set him up in his own tank though :neutral:

Damn! Lost my oldest fish today. :cry: Pajama Cardinal I got in 2007. He was full grown when I got him so I'm guessing he was probably about 8 years old.
R.I.P. PJ

Sorry to hear lance.. Its tough losing old timers in your tank.

Sorry to hear man.