RocketSeason
Aquarium Advice Addict
Hello all,
Well here is my story. I bought a Beautiful Coral Beauty Angel on Wednesday and brought him home. I was not exactly prepared for the new arrival so I did not have a quarantine tank setup and ready to go. So I drip aclimated him in the proper way for about 2 hours and then added him to the tank.
My Clowns were both scared and at the same time very curious. It was very cute watching them try and decide what to do about the new intruder. My purple firefish hid in her hole for about a 15 minutes till she decided it was alright and my Coral Banded Shrimp decided right away that he did not like this new intruder at all. The CBS started to kinda chase him around the tank. There was nothing I could do, so I just decided to wait it out and see if he would calm down.
I arrived home from work the next day to find my CBS still being extremely aggressive toward the new arrival. Also the Coral Beauty Angel had developed 3 white specks on its right side.
EEP! is Ick?, Velvet?, a fungus? an injury? All I knew was that I needed to get him out of there and fast. I went out and bought a 10 gallon tank, a powerhead and sponge sleeve, a small heater, and a piece of PVC pipe along with some medication.
The Coral Beauty is now much more relaxed. He can peacefully explore and learn about his new life as an aquarium inhabitant, He can learn what Formula 1 and 2 is and how its yummy and good and something he needs to eat. (fingers crossed.) and I am treating him the best I know how. (as soon as I get a pick of the spots I will post them in the sick fish forum. All I know is that I am sure its not ick.)
The good news is that I had an excuse to upgrade my display tanks powerhead from a maxi-jet 400 to a maxi-jet 1200. The 400 is now in the QT, and hopefully has enough beneficial bacteria on it to do some good. Also, The heater I got can be used with my old powerhead in the future to properly cure live Rock and age water.
So anyways, the moral of this story is do it right the first time. Save yourself and your fish alot of stress.
here is a good article on setting up a quarantine Tank: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/showquestion.php?faq=2&fldAuto=17
Well here is my story. I bought a Beautiful Coral Beauty Angel on Wednesday and brought him home. I was not exactly prepared for the new arrival so I did not have a quarantine tank setup and ready to go. So I drip aclimated him in the proper way for about 2 hours and then added him to the tank.
My Clowns were both scared and at the same time very curious. It was very cute watching them try and decide what to do about the new intruder. My purple firefish hid in her hole for about a 15 minutes till she decided it was alright and my Coral Banded Shrimp decided right away that he did not like this new intruder at all. The CBS started to kinda chase him around the tank. There was nothing I could do, so I just decided to wait it out and see if he would calm down.
I arrived home from work the next day to find my CBS still being extremely aggressive toward the new arrival. Also the Coral Beauty Angel had developed 3 white specks on its right side.
EEP! is Ick?, Velvet?, a fungus? an injury? All I knew was that I needed to get him out of there and fast. I went out and bought a 10 gallon tank, a powerhead and sponge sleeve, a small heater, and a piece of PVC pipe along with some medication.
The Coral Beauty is now much more relaxed. He can peacefully explore and learn about his new life as an aquarium inhabitant, He can learn what Formula 1 and 2 is and how its yummy and good and something he needs to eat. (fingers crossed.) and I am treating him the best I know how. (as soon as I get a pick of the spots I will post them in the sick fish forum. All I know is that I am sure its not ick.)
The good news is that I had an excuse to upgrade my display tanks powerhead from a maxi-jet 400 to a maxi-jet 1200. The 400 is now in the QT, and hopefully has enough beneficial bacteria on it to do some good. Also, The heater I got can be used with my old powerhead in the future to properly cure live Rock and age water.
So anyways, the moral of this story is do it right the first time. Save yourself and your fish alot of stress.
here is a good article on setting up a quarantine Tank: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/showquestion.php?faq=2&fldAuto=17