Ok so put your pitchforks away and hopefully you can shed some insight (I didn't quarantine, there, it's out of the way).
Dropped by our LFS after finding out they got a fresh shipment in. This included captive bred fish from Biota. We picked up a juvenile tang and a mandarin goby. After talking with the folks there we liked the idea of captive bred for having a VERY small chance of any issues or parasites. Obviously they didn't say outright "don't QT", but i felt in this circumstance since they'd been in the store for 24hrs in a copper dosed tank and captive bred that things would be fine. There would be such a slim chance they could have picked up anything.
He's healthy otherwise, pale in color (still very young and small) but picking away at rocks for algae, not breathing hard or showing any distress. We did a long acclimation drip. It's day 2 and we've noticed our Yellow Tang rubbing rocks. I do not see any signs of ich anywhere. He will swipe by a rock on both sides, and sometimes he'll brush his tail on rocks too. After doing some searching everything keeps pointing to ich or flukes. I've not seen any indications, but know some have said it could be in the gills in the early phase.
I'm starting up a QT tank as i type but i seriously doubt I'm going to be able to catch him without destroying my tank. I know my other fish could be at risk now too, and that feels bad. Should I take the easiest route first and feed API general cure + focus to rule out flukes?
In the meantime I'm going to make sure to keep them happily fed and low stress.
Dropped by our LFS after finding out they got a fresh shipment in. This included captive bred fish from Biota. We picked up a juvenile tang and a mandarin goby. After talking with the folks there we liked the idea of captive bred for having a VERY small chance of any issues or parasites. Obviously they didn't say outright "don't QT", but i felt in this circumstance since they'd been in the store for 24hrs in a copper dosed tank and captive bred that things would be fine. There would be such a slim chance they could have picked up anything.
He's healthy otherwise, pale in color (still very young and small) but picking away at rocks for algae, not breathing hard or showing any distress. We did a long acclimation drip. It's day 2 and we've noticed our Yellow Tang rubbing rocks. I do not see any signs of ich anywhere. He will swipe by a rock on both sides, and sometimes he'll brush his tail on rocks too. After doing some searching everything keeps pointing to ich or flukes. I've not seen any indications, but know some have said it could be in the gills in the early phase.
I'm starting up a QT tank as i type but i seriously doubt I'm going to be able to catch him without destroying my tank. I know my other fish could be at risk now too, and that feels bad. Should I take the easiest route first and feed API general cure + focus to rule out flukes?
In the meantime I'm going to make sure to keep them happily fed and low stress.
