Velvet.... 6 tangs to Qt what would you do?

[topdogreefer]

As an update i havent lost any additional fish. Everyone seems to be doing OK n I t much appetite but they are eating. My hippo tang however is not eating. How long before I should be worried about the lack of appetite.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

As an update i havent lost any additional fish. Everyone seems to be doing OK n I t much appetite but they are eating. My hippo tang however is not eating. How long before I should be worried about the lack of appetite.

It’s only been a few days, it can take up to a week to reduce the disease and get the fish back to feeding.
Jay

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Did you make those dividers yourself? I've used egg crate before, but I found that some fish would ram into it and damage their snouts.

I used to have a number of those compartmentalized "retail systems" - three rows of divided acrylic chambers about 10" x 12" - those were great for quarantining large numbers of incompatible fish.

Jay


Jay

I bought them on amazon. LOL

This method has always worked for me for when QT multiple fish at a time

 

[jmichaelh7]

sorry for the loss.

Hopefully you take the lesson learned for future experience. If i may ask , how did you get velvet in the tank

 

[topdogreefer]

I was getting the new gem tang from a fellow reefer. I saw the white tail at the LFS and got that too. I did not qt the white tail in favor of adding them simultaneously. Big mistake that I won't be making again. I presume the white tail tang brought in the disease as the gem had been living happily for many months before I got him.

 

[topdogreefer]

I thought i would update everyone on the situation. 6 weeks of quarentine is up tomorrow, I can't wait to get this fish back into the display. I thankfully have not had any additional losses. Thanks for the advise everyone