Moorish Idol Rescue for my first fish - a roller coaster ride
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60ish days.
Full 30 days in chelated copper (copper power)
2 doses of API General Cure.
10 days of Metroplex/focus soaked food.
14 day observation.
Mine eats like a pig. It eats my frozen blend of several cubes, and tons of nori!
Not yet! I have tons of zoa's, some LPS and softies.
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A little off topic, but what do you recommend for a CUC (apart from snails) - do you have urchins? Other threads say they destroy nuisance algae but Coralline too which makes it a challenge to get your initial good coverage going
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I have urchins. I don't know how much cleaning they do though!
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If the rumours are true, they might be the true heroes of your CUC and do the bulk of the work in the dark. Those slow **** snails then take all the credit. If you youtube Urchin eating Algae, looks like they move pretty fast. Are yours Tuxedo or long spine?
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2 longspine and a pencil for now. I used to also have a shortspine and a Halloween.
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I also have 3 tuxedo urchins in our setup. A small group of snails (astrea, Trochus, nassarius) and 2 fighting conch. Oh, and 1 blue legged hermit that made it over from the old tank! Ha!
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The most beautiful fish ever.... I’m so envious. I lost two mandarins years ago and I had a very established 500 gallon tank. They just wouldn’t eat. So now I stay away from fish like mandarins and MI. Kudos to you both. Enjoy them! So pretty....
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I had an urchin eat through the protective plastic part of an electric wire once. It was in my sump so I didn’t find it until it was too late. Either the resulting electrical current or the copper in the wire killed EVERYTHING in a matter of days in a 300 gallon DT. Corals bleached and fish dead. I will never have another. Be careful with urchins!
8 months on this guy is thriving, check out his streamer
I’m not going to say I’ve seen a ton of Moorish Idols in captivity, but even amongst those I’ve seen in public aquariums, that is one LONG streamer!!
Glad he’s doing well!!
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