So I bought a trio of maldives lyretail anthias, they were all healthy despite a ripped fin. I put them in QT, and they are fine for a week. I went on vacation for a week, and came back to find one of them with a cloudy eye. I looked it up online, and it was just the cornea, and likely a scratch over an infection. A week or so later this healed. In another QT at the same time, with a bi color angel, I came back from vacation to find one of its spines bare of tissue, likely some minor fin rot ( the fish were fed herbivore diet when I was gone :mad2
That has not healed yet, and is still underobservation. If I had not QTed, all of this would have happened in my reef tank, and not an empty 40B. Luckily this was minor, but who knows what could happen! The moral of the story, always QT your fish for a minimum of 4 weeks, If I only waited 2, the angelfish would be in my reef with the fin rot, and the anthias in a giant tank with a cloudy eye.
That has not healed yet, and is still underobservation. If I had not QTed, all of this would have happened in my reef tank, and not an empty 40B. Luckily this was minor, but who knows what could happen! The moral of the story, always QT your fish for a minimum of 4 weeks, If I only waited 2, the angelfish would be in my reef with the fin rot, and the anthias in a giant tank with a cloudy eye.
