Sailfin Tang

4FordFamily · May 28, 2019

That looks bacterial, as nearly every edge of the fin has been "eaten". I'd try a freshwater dip in a dark bucket, look for "sesame seed" things dropping off after five minutes or so. It could be flukes but it could also be bacterial.

I'd watch that one like a hawk. Great fish, and if you catch it early it should make a full recovery.

vetteguy53081 · May 28, 2019

Fish looks good overall- Cant beat the price. Fins should heal on their own. As salty Lemon indicated- Nori, greens and vitamins- Diet is important with tangs.
IMO- if the fins did not heal to normal shape, they look kind of cool actually. Cant believe Petco allowed the wrasse to do such damage as this obviously was not overnight, but rather over time.

TroyClark · May 29, 2019

Bad news. Came home today to fish breathing hard and darting around. Pale color. Did 50% wc and he died approx an hour later. This is really making me second guess my plans for my 120 gallon in-wall. Might have to go freshwater instead.

vetteguy53081 · May 29, 2019

TroyClark said:
Bad news. Came home today to fish breathing hard and darting around. Pale color. Did 50% wc and he died approx an hour later. This is really making me second guess my plans for my 120 gallon in-wall. Might have to go freshwater instead.

Don't let loss of a fish get you down. Unfortunately, this is typical of specimens acquired from Petco. Many horror stories of Petco fish on this site. It appeared to look good, but hard to tell what the pre-existing condition of fish may have been

L0stmykeys · May 29, 2019

Most of our fish are petco purchases, as the store is closer than decent private owned stores the drive would be an extra hour atleast on top of our hour and a half to get to the petcos :( With that being said we have had a few loses with there fish. 2 clowns.... 1 seemed to be doing very well and dead over night smaller was fine and both came from the same tank... and 1 scopas tang that only made it 24 hours looked healthy in store and just didnt eat at home. Other than that most other fish we got from there look 10x better than they did in the store a few weeks after bringing them home the blue hippo was a big 70 dollar question mark for the first month til she got comfortable enough to come out of the rocks and her ribs stopped showing! but all in all they are doing very well. Im not agreeing with how they take care of them or what corp will allow them to do and not but im just saying give it another chance i felt the same way about the scopas when he died it was one i actaully picked out instead of the kids or the wife. lol

Michael Gilbreath · May 29, 2019

I agree don't give up Petco is the only place close to me to and it is 150miles away. I buy my fish there I have only lost a chromis and a 6 line wrasse so far. I'm setting up a 180gl right now so i'm sure I will have other loses but I love this hobby and will do my best to keep them to a min. My other fish I have in my 70gl or doing great healthy and very active. I know a lot of people have issue with Petco but from what I have seen some of them or trying to improve.

Eve · May 30, 2019

TroyClark said:
Ok. Brought it home and got it floating in my QT. Little did I know the QT tank was 91 degrees. Frantically fixed the problem and drained and refilled QT to right temp and salinity of 2.023. Re floated and dripped then released. He was black in the bag and lying on his side but now is recovering in the QT and swimming normally ad eating spirulina flakes already. Doesn't seem to be breathing hard or anything. Keeping my fingers crossed I didn't kill him.... He was at a high temp of 91 for approx 10-15 minutes. Headed to a family movie so I will setup a spare tablet and use a surveillance app I have to check on him while I am at the movie LOL.

I do the same. I leave cameras just to look at them thru out the day. Isn’t it funny how these little creatures can stress you out?? And you just want to make sure they are OKAY! Lol

Eve · May 30, 2019

TroyClark said:

So beautiful wow[emoji173]️

Eve · May 30, 2019

TroyClark said:
Bad news. Came home today to fish breathing hard and darting around. Pale color. Did 50% wc and he died approx an hour later. This is really making me second guess my plans for my 120 gallon in-wall. Might have to go freshwater instead.

Oh no I am sorry to hear that!! But it happens even to experts on the hobby..Trust me. You did your best! Don’t let it stop you. [emoji174]