The trials of adding one last fish.

[evolved]

@evolved... I though you wrote something somewhere about where the Claudia is collected. I can’t find the post now, does Marshall Islands sound right?

Fiji, actually.

I know H. ornatissimus is restricted to Hawaii. Read through evolve’s posts before purchasing lol

Right.

But as you've already determined, this one is actually biocellatus.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Sorry for your loss. Hope the next one works out.

 

[4FordFamily]

I’m sorry for the loss Iridis are probably one of the most delicate halichoerus species.

For future reference, antibiotics should be run for a minimum of 10 days. Regardless if the fish looks better sooner. Can run as long as 14 days if still symptomatic.

Agree on both fronts

 

[Gareth elliott]

Thank you @evolved @mdbannister @4FordFamily
He came out, ate a cube of hikari brine .

But how i been controlling ammonia in the qt for anyone else that reads the thread. Have used this for the 1 Lubbocki, 1 coral beauty and the one radiant wrasse that i lost via my overflow.

2 wrasses were ttm and the coral beauty was CP treated.

Using replacement reactor sponges, filled up an empty reactor on the dt. Every month rinse all but one sponge in wc water to remove film and put back in. When want the qt running add the sponges to a tetra 10 filter where the filter pad would normally go. Ttm was doing tank transfer every 24-30 hours. Before external parasite treatment feed gc with frozen food. Do 50% water change every 24 hours during this angelfish continued during cp had mixed up all the water i would need at once for each fish so always matched the same parameters. With cp added directly to the make up water at once so was always the same concentration.

Water changes are done via a drip acclimation as to minimize stress slow but no sudden movements that might spook them.

After fish leaves qt sanitize the sponges with 171-180f freshwater return to the reactor. This is an assumption based upon my knowledge of food safety having worked in restaurant management for 12 years now. Probably not the safest way if dont have the proper tools and thermometers on hand so dont copy that part

filters themselves , tank etc sanitize with a 75f bleach solution at 5000 ppm and let dry.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Fish still doing well, but its sleep schedule and my schedule are kinda opposite.

It is out and about when i am sleeping. I try to feed early morning around 4 when i get out of the shower before i leave for work and its still swimming. There is light in the room from windows during the day.

Because it is difficult to tell if it is eating enough due to its awake period. I started with fluke treatment first instead of doing hoping this would also help with internal parasites slightly as same meds just not food based.

Today is the final dose of prazi then going to move to a larger observation tank with rock and a light on a timer. Perhaps a more natural environment will help get it off its asian timezone?

Afraid if it isnt eating enough then i do ich/velvet treatment could stop eating entirely.

Thoughts?

 

[Gareth elliott]

Ok so went ttm, after this post for 13 days. Did a transfer every 24 hours.

Spent another day in acclimation box, rewound the pi camera and no fish paid attention to him so let him out.