[Chaloupa]

You want a horror story? How about 2??

#1-50g FOWLR....well established, Niger Trigger, True Percula, Orchid Dottyback, and Yellow Wrasse. The last fish I was to add was a Kole Tang. The tank was doing exceptionally well, all healthy, got the Kole Tang...didn't QT and it wiped out everything but the Niger. It came from a fantastic place BUT it had Velvet. Can't see it, but WOW does it spread like crazy! Watched our Perc die, our Dottyback die...it was nasty! Pretty upsetting...to say the least

Should've learned my lesson......

#2-120g FOWLR.... several months old and doing well. Pair of Blue Throats (very small), CBB, Golden Spotted Rabbitfish, Valentini Puffer, trio of Saddleback clowns, Rusty Angel, got a tiny Sailfin Tang, Cleaner Wrasse and my much awaited Moorish Idol.....no QT, Moorish Idol came with Ich, wiped out the Idol, Tang, and Cleaner Wrasse. Then I had Ich on each and every fish to try to deal with. They were all very very sick, I tried everything that I could do to deal with it or treat it other than actually medicating with drugs. With the fish that remain I still take risks as the Porcupine Puffer I added after it "looked" gone for several months comes down with spots every now and then....I have added Neon Gobies to help deal with it...another Cleaner Wrasse, and a 40W UV sterilizer. The wrasse and gobies succumbed to Ich and it's complications. If I could do it all over again I would have had a QT tank, treated any problems and would have those fish still.....I HATED looking at the tank after the Ich infection, and the devastation that it caused....now I have a QT tank...I won't take the chance again...

Sorry long post but you wanted horror stories. Now you have 2