Quarantine question?

[kien]

Originally Posted by fishytime

^^^ very nicely put! bry&sha....and welcome out from the lurking closet.......I think that certain fish can successfully be treated in a QT tank.....but IME tangs aren't one of them (Unless the QT tank is LARGE)....I've said it here before and I will likely say it again.....I think we grossly underestimate the stress a fish goes through when we try and net it....some fish seem to have a better capacity for handling the lactic acid build up that happens in their muscles,then others......Tangs dont, tangs stress bigtime......and netting them and putting them in small QT when they are already weakened in most cases is a death sentence.......I think if the fish is eating and otherwise acting normal, leave it in the display and start feeding garlic and vitamin soaked foods......if it has stopped eating then try and get it out because its likely on its way out anyway.......FWIW my regal gets a "flare up" every couple months.....

p.s. raising the temp does nothing for marine ick......so save the stress on your corals.....

I'm in full agreement with you there brotha.

My blue tang gets ich (a few spots here and there) every once and a while too and it makes a great snack for all my cleaner shrimp.

[the marine apprentice]

ive read a few times that the engineer goby eats ich. am i mis informed? or do they really eat it? i have never had an issue with ich in my tanks, my regal had it for a very short time and was gone in a few days and never returned and i have an engineer goby in my tank

[bry&sha]

Thanks guys. It feels good to know we aren't completely out of sync with deciding not to go with a QT. We do understand how important they are and still have one on stand by for that reason. However what Fishytime said about tangs not doing well in them makes sense and sadly we have seen it first hand.

As for the fish, it is doing great minus the fact that it looks like someone dumped a saltshaker on it. It eats, explores and so far it hasn't 'itched' itself a whole lot. I personally worry that it will eventually get it on its gills and stop breathing.

What would switching from flaked food to frozen mysis do? We occasionally feed the frozen food but I am wondering if it would be better to only feed them that. Would it have more nutrients enough to matter?

Again thanks for all the help. It is definitely brighter outside the closet.

Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

ive read a few times that the engineer goby eats ich. am i mis informed? or do they really eat it? i have never had an issue with ich in my tanks, my regal had it for a very short time and was gone in a few days and never returned and i have an engineer goby in my tank

I have read this also but the neon gobie is suposto be a better choice as it is a natural cleaner. Yes they eat theick and not just pick it off like shrimp some times do. I like the neon gobie as they add more color than the engineer gobie dose. White stripe veres a neon blue stripe both are nice fish and you can have a group of them but add as all at the same time.

Bill