So, as I am here eating my egg sandwich trying to keep myself stress free in the time before my CPA exam I want to seek some advice on the best way to carry on with my Achilles.
Yesterday I was in the neighborhood of a LFS, did not plan on coming home with anything at all and just stopping by. I saw an achilles tang who I knew was there for a week or so. Except this time he was not so happy and freaking out. Doing a bob and quick jolt forward. Still had most of his color and picking at food sitting there on the glass bottom. He was in a tank FULL of damsels. I immediately asked how much they are willing to do on the "achilles who is freaking out" I than headed right home with him, and dripped him up to a more proper salinity of 1.019 from 1.014. The holding tank he was in was a 2'x2' frag tank with little to no flow.
As of right now, he is in a 40breeder QT (permanent QT) so there is plenty beneficial bacteria among micro inverts. Sponge filter and two powerheads at 400gph each. He has been playing in the current and eating reef frenzy frozen food, picking at nori and colored up quite a bit. He does not seem lethargic like he was in the LFS.
He has been occasionally rubbing himself along the glass bottom or pvc fitting I put into the tank but is not showing any visible signs of a external parasite. I am hesitant to jump onto treating him with Cu.
Those of you who have possibly nursed a Achilles back from a definitive death or just went through the QT process with one please share some Do or Don'ts with this beautiful fish.
Yesterday I was in the neighborhood of a LFS, did not plan on coming home with anything at all and just stopping by. I saw an achilles tang who I knew was there for a week or so. Except this time he was not so happy and freaking out. Doing a bob and quick jolt forward. Still had most of his color and picking at food sitting there on the glass bottom. He was in a tank FULL of damsels. I immediately asked how much they are willing to do on the "achilles who is freaking out" I than headed right home with him, and dripped him up to a more proper salinity of 1.019 from 1.014. The holding tank he was in was a 2'x2' frag tank with little to no flow.
As of right now, he is in a 40breeder QT (permanent QT) so there is plenty beneficial bacteria among micro inverts. Sponge filter and two powerheads at 400gph each. He has been playing in the current and eating reef frenzy frozen food, picking at nori and colored up quite a bit. He does not seem lethargic like he was in the LFS.
He has been occasionally rubbing himself along the glass bottom or pvc fitting I put into the tank but is not showing any visible signs of a external parasite. I am hesitant to jump onto treating him with Cu.
Those of you who have possibly nursed a Achilles back from a definitive death or just went through the QT process with one please share some Do or Don'ts with this beautiful fish.