Powder blue tang

sergifed91 · Apr 5, 2022

I'm getting a powder blue tang on Friday. I know there prone for diseases. Should not sure where to begin with the qt process on this. Copper, ich or general cure which is what I usually do. Advise please?

blaxsun · Apr 5, 2022

It sounds like you have everything you need to QT.

sergifed91 · Apr 5, 2022

blaxsun said:
It sounds like you have everything you need to QT.

I know coppersafe will do the work for ich and velvet. So I'm thinking doing the copper first. Then after 14 to 30 days of copper then. A week of general cure after that. Then 2 to 3 weeks of observation.

SchrutesReefs · Apr 5, 2022

gonna feel like this, but with those beautiful tangs you gotta play it safe.

sergifed91 · Apr 5, 2022

It's at the lfs. They just got it in today. Nim picking it up on Friday. I just want to make sure it's eating.

blaxsun · Apr 5, 2022

sergifed91 said:
It's at the lfs. They just got it in today. Nim picking it up on Friday. I just want to make sure it's eating.

Eating is half the battle.

REM2021 · Apr 5, 2022

I got one in recently and had it in coppersafe for a month, then into the DT. Perfectly healthy and ate like a pig. Then it turned into a murder machine. Good news was it eats like a pig so was extremely easy to catch with the fish trap. Now he's waiting back in my QT tank until my next trip to the LFS to trade him in. Tolerated the coppersafe very well and ate flakes, pellets, and nori basically from day 1. Crossing my fingers for you that yours turns out to be a better citizen than mine was! My only thought is whether the 2 to 3 weeks of observation after treatment might be overkill, they are extremely active swimmers and I didn't keep him in QT any longer than necessary, he was glass surfing from stress from the small QT pretty quickly (10G), which went away as soon as he went into the DT.

i cant think · Apr 6, 2022

sergifed91 said:
It's at the lfs. They just got it in today. Nim picking it up on Friday. I just want to make sure it's eating.

As said above, eating isn’t the full battle, the big battles come with:
- Aggression & Getting it into the main display
- Ich/Velvet
- Hunger Strikes (Less likely to have these than a tang in the same complex - Achilles)
- Internal Parasites
- Flukes

I wish you luck with your new addition! Hopefully it isn’t too much of a rocky road. Also these guys if healthy and thriving can combat ich on their own even in a main display.

sergifed91 · Apr 6, 2022

i cant think said:
As said above, eating isn’t the full battle, the big battles come with:
- Aggression & Getting it into the main display
- Ich/Velvet
- Hunger Strikes (Less likely to have these than a tang in the same complex - Achilles)
- Internal Parasites
- Flukes

I wish you luck with your new addition! Hopefully it isn’t too much of a rocky road. Also these guys if healthy and thriving can combat ich on their own even in a main display.

Ich/ velvet and parasites can be dealt with. That's what qt is for. Then I'll deal with the rest as it comes.

nereefpat · Apr 6, 2022

sergifed91 said:
I know coppersafe will do the work for ich and velvet. So I'm thinking doing the copper first. Then after 14 to 30 days of copper then. A week of general cure after that. Then 2 to 3 weeks of observation.

Pretty good plan. I would make sure it eats in QT first, then use copper. I like to go straight from copper into the display, as to not allow any ich to attach, but everyone does QT a little differently.

sergifed91 · Apr 6, 2022

REM2021 said:
I got one in recently and had it in coppersafe for a month, then into the DT. Perfectly healthy and ate like a pig. Then it turned into a murder machine. Good news was it eats like a pig so was extremely easy to catch with the fish trap. Now he's waiting back in my QT tank until my next trip to the LFS to trade him in. Tolerated the coppersafe very well and ate flakes, pellets, and nori basically from day 1. Crossing my fingers for you that yours turns out to be a better citizen than mine was! My only thought is whether the 2 to 3 weeks of observation after treatment might be overkill, they are extremely active swimmers and I didn't keep him in QT any longer than necessary, he was glass surfing from stress from the small QT pretty quickly (10G), which went away as soon as he went into the DT.

I qt them in a 10 gallon tank. Then after all treatments I move to a 75 for the observation period.

sergifed91 · Apr 6, 2022

nereefpat said:
Pretty good plan. I would make sure it eats in QT first, then use copper. I like to go straight from copper into the display, as to not allow any ich to attach, but everyone does QT a little differently.

I have multiple qt tanks set up tank 2 tank transfers

Mkart · Apr 6, 2022

I did the H2o2 dip then copper for a month. Been healthy and strong for 2 years now. I actually let my tank go fallow after velvet and did this process on every fish that entered the tank. First time I have had great luck with adding fish.