Advice for Sailfin Tang Quarantine

[Shilpan Patel]

Hey guys! 100gallon soft coral DT with 2 clowns a shrimp and a chromis.

I’m getting my first tang tomorrow! A sailfin tang. Well this will be the first tang I’ve quarantined. The last one I didn’t quarantine and lost all my livestock to disease. I plan to quarantine for 6 weeks and only Medicate if I see ich.

I’ve got a 40 gallon long cycled (tested with ghost feeding and no amm or nit spike). im using a canister filter which I cleaned before use. Some decorations to hide in there and a bubbler.

I have algae sheets, pellet food with garlic, and veggie rounds. I have cupramine, a copper test kit and I don’t have cuprasorb but I’m getting some next week.

My question to you guys is:
1) is there anything important I’ve missed to quarantine this tang successfully? I’ve never quarantined a tang before. It’s been in the shop for 3 weeks and no ich, but I know most tangs get ich hence I have meds ready.
Most other diseases we don’t get in NZ cause we have a mandatory 1 month quarantine period at customs but I’ll watch out for those anyway.

2) can a blue hippo tang be added later if I wanted to? Or will it more than likely fight?

 

[tdileo]

Both of those fish will outgrow a 100G in a couple years, and that’s assuming they’re small now. However to the point of QT.
Tangs don’t need anything special. Ensure they have ample hiding spaces and food and they will be good, assuming there is no disease present. Good luck

 

[Shilpan Patel]

Thank you for your reply!
I have been reading online and it seems most sailfin tangs tolerate cupramine for 4 weeks. I wanted to try TTM but I don’t think my 10 gallon tank is a good idea to use for a sailfin tang. I’d probably need to buy another 40 gallon plus equipment. Also I know people say it’s cheap, but I ended up using $$$ worth of RODI water and salt for the last fish since the tank was 40 gallons to drain and replace every time. Hoping it stays disease free, but you can’t rely on hope so I’m preparing dosing equipment. Lol I’ve got needles and syringes to dose accurately and I’m measuring the tank to calculate exact water volume.

Ah yes thank you for that advice. The plan is to upgrade to a 150 gallon next year if I pass my fellowship exams haha, better study dang hard then if I want that tank!!

 

[Shilpan Patel]

One more question, I wanted to get a red headed fairy wrasse. But they’re not good with copper right? Better to get it another time without a tang which likely will need copper treatment?

 

[tdileo]

Some say wrasses don’t do well with copper, but I’ve found that they do fine as long as the dose is lower than recommended. However it’s probably good to quarantine fish separately unless you’re in a hurry.
Good luck with your studies by the way!

 

[Shilpan Patel]

Cheers
Ok I’ll do it one by one, hurry has only brought me catastrophe in this hobby.

 

[Shilpan Patel]

Just a quick update, he’s been in there for half a day now, and he’s doing fine.
Not eating just chasing his reflection. I’ve put a piece of nori on a clip for him to nibble on

I assume this reflection chasing is a tang thing because they’re territorial? Does this eventually wear off?

 

[mcpeachy]

Hey guys! 100gallon soft coral DT with 2 clowns a shrimp and a chromis.

I’m getting my first tang tomorrow! A sailfin tang. Well this will be the first tang I’ve quarantined. The last one I didn’t quarantine and lost all my livestock to disease. I plan to quarantine for 6 weeks and only Medicate if I see ich.

I’ve got a 40 gallon long cycled (tested with ghost feeding and no amm or nit spike). im using a canister filter which I cleaned before use. Some decorations to hide in there and a bubbler.

I have algae sheets, pellet food with garlic, and veggie rounds. I have cupramine, a copper test kit and I don’t have cuprasorb but I’m getting some next week.

My question to you guys is:
1) is there anything important I’ve missed to quarantine this tang successfully? I’ve never quarantined a tang before. It’s been in the shop for 3 weeks and no ich, but I know most tangs get ich hence I have meds ready.
Most other diseases we don’t get in NZ cause we have a mandatory 1 month quarantine period at customs but I’ll watch out for those anyway.

2) can a blue hippo tang be added later if I wanted to? Or will it more than likely fight?

How does customs qt the fish? They can’t possibly die the fish out? But they can’t possibly keep them in a bag for a month??? How do they do it...?

 

[Shilpan Patel]

Hey there!
They have holding tanks for them, they have to be there for a certain number of weeks. And then the store has to quarantine for a certain number of weeks before they can legally sell the fish.