Thank you, Steve :cry
I just hope we can save a few of our fish babies. This is a horrid experience, but a lesson I will never forget....
My one hope is that everyone here that is not putting every fish they buy in QT, will do so from now on. Go look at your beautiful fishies swimming around in your tanks...think about how you would feel if they were systematically taken from you one by one - stricken by this most horrible/virilent disease...and remember that EVERY time you buy a fish...a 30 day QT is a MUST. If you can't afford a QT tank, or simply do not have room for it, find a LFS or a friend that can do it for you.
I'm fairly positive the Atlantic Blue Tang was the carrier. The sad part, is that she was an impulse buy...I'd never seen one in a LFS before, and had always wanted one (she was sooo beautiful). Our QT tank was set up and running, but the filtration media was fairly new. When we brought her home, she was put in the QT tank, but after about a week or so, the system started going through a heavy cycle - probably because she was a good sized fish with a lg. bioload...she broke out in some ich spots (not bad), so we felt she would be better off in the display rather than in a QT going through a cycle. We *should have* just done daily water changes, and hoped for the best in the QT...but we didn't. She actually looked really good for awhile...eating, playing. Now she is gone, the green mandarin is gone, one of my clowns is gone, the remaining clown is probably not going to make it, and my beautiful Hippo is getting worse. My intent is not to bum anybody out, but to save as many people as I can from going through this heartache. PLEASE, people...QT each and every fish that goes into your tanks, no matter HOW reputible the LFS or friend is that you get it from!
Wendy
