AdamHorton
Aquarium Advice FINatic
Hi,
This Friday I'll hopefully be picking up two angel fish for my FOWLR tank -- a flame angel and an emperor angel. I already have a quarantine tank set up for them, but I've never had angel fish before so I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. I've quarantined tangs before and I've learned that I should just do preventative treatment for ich (hyposalinity), is there something of that nature I should know of about angel fish?
Are there any diseases or parasites that I should be looking out for, or just a standard 6-week quarantine where I keep a close eye on them? Also, I assume the standard marine pellets I'm feeding the main tank will suffice for them, or should I get some other type of food?
Here are the details of my setup, in case you're curious:
Display tank: 150G glass with about 30G worth of sump/refugium. 150-200 pounds of live rock and a 2-inch layer of live sand at the bottom, I use a bio-pellet reactor and a protein skimmer along with some mechanical filtration in my sump/refugium. The tank has been up for over 7 years, hasn't had any problems. The tank currently has 3 damsels who are older than the tank and a porcupine puffer I've had for 3-4 years or so. I'm planning to add some more fish after these two angels -- lawnmower blenny, probably a school of chromis, and some tangs, but the angels will come in first.
Quarantine tank: 20G tall tank, no substrate. I have a piece of live rock from the display tank and an HOB AquaClear 20 filter. There are some large PVC joints in there and I plan to put some egg-crate in there to separate the two angels while they're in quarantine. The quarantine was fishless-cycled over the past two months using pure ammonia (I've done this many times before) and I did a full water change a couple of days ago. I can put in 3-4ppm ammonia and it will be gone with no nitrites in 24 hours.
I'll answer any questions here as best I can, I'm just trying to be responsible and not miss anything. Thanks!
This Friday I'll hopefully be picking up two angel fish for my FOWLR tank -- a flame angel and an emperor angel. I already have a quarantine tank set up for them, but I've never had angel fish before so I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. I've quarantined tangs before and I've learned that I should just do preventative treatment for ich (hyposalinity), is there something of that nature I should know of about angel fish?
Are there any diseases or parasites that I should be looking out for, or just a standard 6-week quarantine where I keep a close eye on them? Also, I assume the standard marine pellets I'm feeding the main tank will suffice for them, or should I get some other type of food?
Here are the details of my setup, in case you're curious:
Display tank: 150G glass with about 30G worth of sump/refugium. 150-200 pounds of live rock and a 2-inch layer of live sand at the bottom, I use a bio-pellet reactor and a protein skimmer along with some mechanical filtration in my sump/refugium. The tank has been up for over 7 years, hasn't had any problems. The tank currently has 3 damsels who are older than the tank and a porcupine puffer I've had for 3-4 years or so. I'm planning to add some more fish after these two angels -- lawnmower blenny, probably a school of chromis, and some tangs, but the angels will come in first.
Quarantine tank: 20G tall tank, no substrate. I have a piece of live rock from the display tank and an HOB AquaClear 20 filter. There are some large PVC joints in there and I plan to put some egg-crate in there to separate the two angels while they're in quarantine. The quarantine was fishless-cycled over the past two months using pure ammonia (I've done this many times before) and I did a full water change a couple of days ago. I can put in 3-4ppm ammonia and it will be gone with no nitrites in 24 hours.
I'll answer any questions here as best I can, I'm just trying to be responsible and not miss anything. Thanks!