My achilles tang

[marie]

He finally made it into the display tank after 8 weeks of quarantine.



The gang



tank pic, this macroalgae took over my tank when I left it fallow for 8 weeks. Hopefully these guys will help me clean it up

[Joe Reefer]

Nice lookin fish. One of my favorite tangs.

[Ruth]

My very favorite fish that I don't have and unfortunately do not have the right tank mates to try and introduce one. Great looking fish. Did you have any issues with it when it was in quarentine like ich?

[MoeReefer]

nice lookin fish, great lookin tank.

cheers

[marie]

Originally Posted by Ruth

My very favorite fish that I don't have and unfortunately do not have the right tank mates to try and introduce one. Great looking fish. Did you have any issues with it when it was in quarentine like ich?

When the poor guy arrived he was horribly stressed and obviously hadn't wanted to be caught because he was badly scraped up. The day after, he had all the symptoms of marine velvet and ich so I started treatment with cupramine.

After 2 weeks he was still not interested in eating so I started adding vitamin b12 to the water, within 4 hrs of adding the vitamin he was picking at the film algae on the glass and by the end of another week he was eating mysis and nori.

I really thought he wasn't going to make it and I was feeling very guilty buying him but lucky for him it all worked out

[Ruth]

Well good for you for sticking with it and getting the fish to eat. He still looks like he could gain a little weight but you are obviously on the right track. Was it just a regular old Vitamin B12 pill? or is this something you can buy at a LFS? Maybe I have been sleeping but I have never heard of this before.

[marie]

Here's a bad, belly shot



I found reference to vitamin B12 when searching on the internet for an appetite stimulant. It's just an ordinary vit B12 1000mg tablet picked up at the health food store. I added 1 a day for a week, it seemed to work

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Is it eating any of that Gracillaria from the group order? Mine are starting to really enjoy that "Tang heaven", especially the Yellow & Powder Blue tang.

Looking good Marie. I got another tang too, but Powder Blue, for my softies tank to munch down on some nuisance algae.

Anthony

[marie]

Hi anthony

All my fish including the clown fish love the tang heaven... except the fish I got it for, the achilles . I did notice him nibbling at it today, mostly because the foxface was trying to keep him away and the achilles isn't going to be bossed around by anybody