Jon Fishman
Cleveland Ohio, buy/sell local!
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I guess I’m looking for a general consensus on what to do here.
Had a Tang, lost a tang, swore off tangs, now I am looking at a tang.......
Long story short, I got a Powder Blue with the plan to upgrade from my 75g to a bigger tank (which I have now done)
75g has well established rock, lots of coralline etc, and a big heathy BTA, no algae concerns, it was running great, coral doing fine.
I had quite a bit of rock in the 75 (again planning ahead for upgrade) and it had a 3” or so sandbed.
Everything in the 75 was a culmination of what the previous owner ran for years, plus the 40# of rock from my previous tank that I got used also, that was running well for 12+ years (so all rock was very established lots of growth, etc). Good pod population etc you name it..... tank had it.
well, with 100# of rock in the 75, it was pretty cramped in there. I also had a Lemon Chromis and a Sharpnose Puffer, and pair of Flurry Clowns
I put the Powder Blue in the tank from a LFS that had it in a tank for 4+ months (they write on the tanks) I know that says NOTHING for other fish that may or may not have come and gone in that time.
The powder blue did great. Grazed, etc. never saw a problem with it. I had it 2 months maybe. I went to work, came home 14 hours later, found it with the skin basically falling off like the guy in Indiana Jones....... I also think the cramped tank stressed it, but I’m no fish-whisperer
Within an hour it went from swimming sideways, to floating into the side of a powerhead, to death......
My first and only disease death I have had.
That was about 2.5 months ago...... After it died, the Puffer, clowns and Chromis remained in the tank, and shortly after (not long I would say) I removed both Flurry clowns and my BTA and put them in a Nano. They did fine, but one kept picking on the other (I thought it was a mating thing)
The smaller clown eventually decided to try life on the outside, and my dog brought it to my daughter as a gift........
So, to recap, 1 clown in a Nano (20g RSR) with a BTA that eventually split, and a 75 with a sharpnose and a Chromis
So, new tank is finally done, so 75g gets drained, and rocks/coral and inverts go into the new tank.
I took the Puffer to the LFS and donated him, and put the Chromis in the Nano. So that has been maybe 2 weeks at this point?
So, from 2.5 months ago with the death of the Powder Blue (which I FW dipped and found no flukes) No new fish were added, but also every fish in the tank with it have shown zero signs of disease.
With the take-down of the 75g, the filling of the new tank happened. The rocks were given a quick check-up for unwanted critters and placed in the new tank, which is bare-bottom. So I have 100% water-change, new tank, old rocks + inverts
It’s been about 2 weeks, and the plan, was to just grow coral and keep it fallow for 3 months because I had the Powder Blue die from something I was never able to identify......
Well, a Purple Tang has been offered to me for basically nothing, but the money for the fish is the least of my concerns....... I don’t want to just expose it to ???????????
What is the likelihood of disaster, or I guess, best yet, if I were to add just this one fish, and monitor for disease for a couple months, what do you think the chances are that my tank has ich or whatever, and despite 100% waterchange, my tank absolutely needs 3-months of fallow time or I am basically throwing them into toxic blender of death?
If I had ANY problems with the Puffer/Chromis/Clown that stayed wet, then it wouldn’t make me think twice about waiting for a full fallow cycle.
With a bit of honesty, who here would roll the dice for a free Purple Tang?
Had a Tang, lost a tang, swore off tangs, now I am looking at a tang.......
Long story short, I got a Powder Blue with the plan to upgrade from my 75g to a bigger tank (which I have now done)
75g has well established rock, lots of coralline etc, and a big heathy BTA, no algae concerns, it was running great, coral doing fine.
I had quite a bit of rock in the 75 (again planning ahead for upgrade) and it had a 3” or so sandbed.
Everything in the 75 was a culmination of what the previous owner ran for years, plus the 40# of rock from my previous tank that I got used also, that was running well for 12+ years (so all rock was very established lots of growth, etc). Good pod population etc you name it..... tank had it.
well, with 100# of rock in the 75, it was pretty cramped in there. I also had a Lemon Chromis and a Sharpnose Puffer, and pair of Flurry Clowns
I put the Powder Blue in the tank from a LFS that had it in a tank for 4+ months (they write on the tanks) I know that says NOTHING for other fish that may or may not have come and gone in that time.
The powder blue did great. Grazed, etc. never saw a problem with it. I had it 2 months maybe. I went to work, came home 14 hours later, found it with the skin basically falling off like the guy in Indiana Jones....... I also think the cramped tank stressed it, but I’m no fish-whisperer
Within an hour it went from swimming sideways, to floating into the side of a powerhead, to death......
My first and only disease death I have had.
That was about 2.5 months ago...... After it died, the Puffer, clowns and Chromis remained in the tank, and shortly after (not long I would say) I removed both Flurry clowns and my BTA and put them in a Nano. They did fine, but one kept picking on the other (I thought it was a mating thing)
The smaller clown eventually decided to try life on the outside, and my dog brought it to my daughter as a gift........
So, to recap, 1 clown in a Nano (20g RSR) with a BTA that eventually split, and a 75 with a sharpnose and a Chromis
So, new tank is finally done, so 75g gets drained, and rocks/coral and inverts go into the new tank.
I took the Puffer to the LFS and donated him, and put the Chromis in the Nano. So that has been maybe 2 weeks at this point?
So, from 2.5 months ago with the death of the Powder Blue (which I FW dipped and found no flukes) No new fish were added, but also every fish in the tank with it have shown zero signs of disease.
With the take-down of the 75g, the filling of the new tank happened. The rocks were given a quick check-up for unwanted critters and placed in the new tank, which is bare-bottom. So I have 100% water-change, new tank, old rocks + inverts
It’s been about 2 weeks, and the plan, was to just grow coral and keep it fallow for 3 months because I had the Powder Blue die from something I was never able to identify......
Well, a Purple Tang has been offered to me for basically nothing, but the money for the fish is the least of my concerns....... I don’t want to just expose it to ???????????
What is the likelihood of disaster, or I guess, best yet, if I were to add just this one fish, and monitor for disease for a couple months, what do you think the chances are that my tank has ich or whatever, and despite 100% waterchange, my tank absolutely needs 3-months of fallow time or I am basically throwing them into toxic blender of death?
If I had ANY problems with the Puffer/Chromis/Clown that stayed wet, then it wouldn’t make me think twice about waiting for a full fallow cycle.
With a bit of honesty, who here would roll the dice for a free Purple Tang?
