Kind of funny the "is this already being discussed" is one of my posts when I first got this fish " IT'S HUGE" lol
I have a full grown blue eyed kole tang who is far and above the largest fish in my tank. Be nice, I introduced her into a 75 gallon tank, after placing the order for a 2-3" fish online. When the fish was received, it was bigger than that. It was full grown. Now I know what you think "ya right it's probably just a little chubby" but I mean this is a big fish.
I want a CBB in my tank, I have kept a leopard fat and happy so I think I have a nice mix of many types of gourmet fish food items all combined and soaked and freezed and it's healthy and the fish love it. However the aggression from the tang was an issue. I tried moving, adding, stacking rocks. I made a little egg crate cage for the CBB. I did the mirror, I turned the lights off, I fed tremendous amounts of frozen food, I took the entire week off of work so I could monitor and intervene when needed. It lived for 8 days, and I believe the aggression from the tang caused it to stop eating.
So I've started the process of trying to rehome the tang. First attempt was a FB marketplace post. I had an extremely high amount of interest. I am upfront about the situation. It is an aggressive (to smaller fish, larger fish TBD) fish, and it is a full grown fish, and it only poops in one corner of the tank. I kid you not, I have to get a turkey baster and keep a single corner of my tank's sandbed turned over, or it turns a brownish tint. She poops in a corner. I have only ever seen her poop in the corner, and she poops a lot.
I had every single one of the buyers back out of FB marketplace, and said it was too big. Well DUH I said that it was big, idiot. No I’m just kidding they were nice and I do not blame them one bit.
Fast forward to my LFS, and also a few fish store I do business with online. None of them want the fish either. It is too big. I don’t know what to do with this fish. Can I drive it to a coast and return it to the water? That sounds like a horrible idea.
I purchased the fish for $60. I would like to purchase another CBB fish, and would like to get the 60 from the tang to purchase the CBB. It works out in my head, trust me.
I am in the Lafayette area in Indiana. That is northwest of Indianapolis about an hour fifteen. I would drive 2-3 hours in any direction if there was someone who wants my fish. Bonus points if you want to come to me. I do not want to ship the fish – she is too big. It would have to be shipped in a huge bucket or something, a big just will not do.
What are the other options, if no one local and no LFS wants the fish ?
I have a full grown blue eyed kole tang who is far and above the largest fish in my tank. Be nice, I introduced her into a 75 gallon tank, after placing the order for a 2-3" fish online. When the fish was received, it was bigger than that. It was full grown. Now I know what you think "ya right it's probably just a little chubby" but I mean this is a big fish.
I want a CBB in my tank, I have kept a leopard fat and happy so I think I have a nice mix of many types of gourmet fish food items all combined and soaked and freezed and it's healthy and the fish love it. However the aggression from the tang was an issue. I tried moving, adding, stacking rocks. I made a little egg crate cage for the CBB. I did the mirror, I turned the lights off, I fed tremendous amounts of frozen food, I took the entire week off of work so I could monitor and intervene when needed. It lived for 8 days, and I believe the aggression from the tang caused it to stop eating.
So I've started the process of trying to rehome the tang. First attempt was a FB marketplace post. I had an extremely high amount of interest. I am upfront about the situation. It is an aggressive (to smaller fish, larger fish TBD) fish, and it is a full grown fish, and it only poops in one corner of the tank. I kid you not, I have to get a turkey baster and keep a single corner of my tank's sandbed turned over, or it turns a brownish tint. She poops in a corner. I have only ever seen her poop in the corner, and she poops a lot.
I had every single one of the buyers back out of FB marketplace, and said it was too big. Well DUH I said that it was big, idiot. No I’m just kidding they were nice and I do not blame them one bit.
Fast forward to my LFS, and also a few fish store I do business with online. None of them want the fish either. It is too big. I don’t know what to do with this fish. Can I drive it to a coast and return it to the water? That sounds like a horrible idea.
I purchased the fish for $60. I would like to purchase another CBB fish, and would like to get the 60 from the tang to purchase the CBB. It works out in my head, trust me.
I am in the Lafayette area in Indiana. That is northwest of Indianapolis about an hour fifteen. I would drive 2-3 hours in any direction if there was someone who wants my fish. Bonus points if you want to come to me. I do not want to ship the fish – she is too big. It would have to be shipped in a huge bucket or something, a big just will not do.
What are the other options, if no one local and no LFS wants the fish ?