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spit.fire 11-27-2011 09:14 PM

Treating a wounded 12" blue ring angel
 
today i stopped by the local pet store and they recieved a ~12" blue ring angel that had been badly beaten up from shipping, it has some pretty bad wounds to its side just infront of its tail and is missing about 1/3 of its right fin. The owner of the store offered the fish to me for free because ive had pretty good luck with treating all the injured fish he gets in although ive never treated this large of a fish with this large of injuries so any advice would help.


For those who were wondering how it got injured, it was shipped in a leaky box and lost about half its water in shippment. It ended up doing quite a bit of damage to itself by thrashing around. The store ordered small angels and recieved this gigantic angel.

it will be going in a 150g tank for treatment and once it is healed up will be moved to my 360gallon tank

Myka 11-27-2011 09:44 PM

I would do a methylene blue dip before adding the fish to the 150 gallon tank, then watch for signs of disease. Don't forget to have some ammonia detoxifer on hand and a compatible way to measure ammonia like an Ammonia Alert.

spit.fire 11-27-2011 10:15 PM

How much mb/g would you use for a dip?

Myka 11-27-2011 11:07 PM

You can go by the directions on the bottle, but it doesn't matter much. Just make the water mild-medium blue.

Raven34 11-27-2011 11:22 PM

Lets see a pic of this bad boy!

spit.fire 11-27-2011 11:51 PM

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spit.fire 11-27-2011 11:53 PM

My cleaner wrasses swarmed it the second I put it in the tank

Although they swam my hand the second it goes in the tank

I'll get a better pic later

rastaangel 11-28-2011 12:14 AM

Wow what a beauty, amazing score even tho hes injured

Myka 11-28-2011 01:43 AM

Is that glare on his side or injury? Looks like glare. He looks like he's not in that bad condition. Where is most of the damage? Nice big one!

spit.fire 11-28-2011 12:40 PM

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