Hey all,
In another post, I described the crazy that ensued after our 240 gallon tank cracked wide open and spilled out all the water and fish into the condo. That post was about our Cowfish but I have another question:
When this happened, we gathered most of our livestock which included a lot - tangs, butterflies, gobies, mandarins, Lionfish, clowns, firefish, decorator crab, sea star and things I probably can't even think of right now, and put them all in a 20 gallon tank for 3 hours until we could get them to our LFS where they promised they would take very good care of everything, not to worry. But... realize some fish won't deal well with the stress...
After 3 weeks, we went back to get our fish and less than 1/2 of them were alive. We had 3 clowns, a watchman goby, dog face puffer, powder blue tang, sleeper goby and maybe a couple of other things come home. The puffer and the power blue were COVERED in ich. The Scopus had popeye pretty bad and the sea star had lost a leg.
I know many of these fish are super sensitive and we did expect to lose some but this kind of seems like a lot. We ended up losing the powder blue, the pearl scale and sleeper once we got them home.
It's done now and it can't be changed but wondering if this seems normal? I think my mom could have kept them in the bathtub and have done just as well. Thoughts?
In another post, I described the crazy that ensued after our 240 gallon tank cracked wide open and spilled out all the water and fish into the condo. That post was about our Cowfish but I have another question:
When this happened, we gathered most of our livestock which included a lot - tangs, butterflies, gobies, mandarins, Lionfish, clowns, firefish, decorator crab, sea star and things I probably can't even think of right now, and put them all in a 20 gallon tank for 3 hours until we could get them to our LFS where they promised they would take very good care of everything, not to worry. But... realize some fish won't deal well with the stress...
After 3 weeks, we went back to get our fish and less than 1/2 of them were alive. We had 3 clowns, a watchman goby, dog face puffer, powder blue tang, sleeper goby and maybe a couple of other things come home. The puffer and the power blue were COVERED in ich. The Scopus had popeye pretty bad and the sea star had lost a leg.
I know many of these fish are super sensitive and we did expect to lose some but this kind of seems like a lot. We ended up losing the powder blue, the pearl scale and sleeper once we got them home.
It's done now and it can't be changed but wondering if this seems normal? I think my mom could have kept them in the bathtub and have done just as well. Thoughts?