Powder Blues...?

[naesco]

Originally Posted by DJ_drew

i have 2 cleaner shrimp
and honestly im not trying to prolong the life of the fish im trying to get rid of the ick all together
lol
so i gave him a freshwater dip and then put him in QT with ick meds and now hes just laying on the bottome of the tank???

i know they are hard fish to keep but up until today ive not had this hard of a time
lol

Your tang is stressed from the ich in the main tank, the stress from its capture and transfer into a freshwater dip, and the medication you have given it.

Hopefully, the salinity, temperature and PH is the same in your QT. If not adjust it slowly.
What medications did you use and were you 100% precise in the measurements. If not use carbon to remove the meds from your QT.
The lights should be off in the QT and the tang should have a place to hide.

Put a bubbler in the tank so there is lots of oxygen. Feed garlic extract soaked food.
Except where absolutely necessary avoid approaching your tank to 'see if it is still alive' as you are only stressing the tang further. Observe it from a distance.

It is good that you removed the powder blue tang. These fish often do well for a while than get sick and die in the tank often taking the powder blue's tankmates with it.

[DJ_drew]

i used exact measurements for the neds its called ick-x
and the lights were off in that part of the hosue and i was staying away but in any case it died within 3 hours of moving it to the QT

So disappointed
exspensive fish

[DJ_drew]

my thoughts exactly about the fourth aswell
they are to gorgeous a fish to keep trying over and over

so anyways im gonna keep fish out of my DT for about a month to get rid of the ick
will the inverts get ick by the way?

[naesco]

Originally Posted by DJ_drew

i used exact measurements for the neds its called ick-x
and the lights were off in that part of the hosue and i was staying away but in any case it died within 3 hours of moving it to the QT

So disappointed
exspensive fish

I am sorry to hear this. You tried your best to keep it alive but it is an extremely difficult fish to keep. Please do not replace the Powder Blue with another.

You should be treating the fish in your tank because they will have ich and will also be stressed.
Soak your food (preferably dry food because it absorbs more) with garlic extreme or garlic extract and selcon. Feed very often and do this for several weeks.

[EmilyB]

I think the worst experience I ever had with a fish was the powder blue.

Beautiful fish.

[Johnny Reefer]

I must have gotten lucky. Come late April, I will have had my Powder Blue for 4 years. It has survived the the intial move from the store to the 135 I used to have, and two other tank transfers...the second of which involved a 20 minute car ride in December '06. I've seen a few spots of ich on it only twice, and that was in the early going. The only thing that frustrated me about it was it used to splash at the surface. But I solved that by putting a partial glass top on the tank. I take your guys word for it that they are difficult. Mine is a success story. Lucky, I guess.

Cheers,

[phreezee]

I think it comes down to tank size and mates. I've had little trouble with keeping PBT, they're just as easy as a Yellow tang if provided with the right environment.