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Thanks for the advice Mrfresh! I was honestly hoping everyone would say this fish just has a bad reputation but it's not looking good.
The achilles is an awesome fish. Nicer than the power blue IMO. I have had mine for about 2 years. He's in a 180g with 3 MP40's. He loves getting blasted by their flow. Your 200 should be fine.
Find a nice healthy one that is not to thin. I feed Green and Purple Sea Veggies every day. When I stopped feeding Sea Veggies for a few days he got these weird white marks around his face but as soon as I started feeding Sea Veggies again he was fine so now I feed it everyday. I also feed mysis everyday and NLS Pellets alternating with Ocean Nutrition Formula One and Prime Reef flakes every other day.
I would recommend not quarantining this fish. It's more undue stress on a delicate fish. Mine went right into the display as well as all my other fish. I guess I have been lucky when it comes to that. If you keep your fish fat they will stay healthy.
Here is an old pic. Good luck.
Brett at nicewrasse is the place to buy an achilles from. He does a great job getting the fish eating and healthy. I put mine in a QT and did the TTM for ich and he did fine. I just went through 10 weeks of fallow on my DT to get it ich free, so I wanted to make sure the achilles didn't have ich either. I recommend a QT for everything, even sensitive fish. Send Brett a pm and he will set you up with a healthy fish.
Look you have to take everyone's advice.... Lightly.
Each fish is its own... Just like some people love living in big city's where others love the open country.
I had mine in a 60 with a maxijet on one side and a hang in the back filter on the other... No skimmer. He lived and THRIVED in there
If I was to listen to everyone my 90 gallon reef would have 200 lbs of rock and one chromis bc it's to small for a tang....
Here's a pic of my egg crate cage I built to hold the fish in my main tank and not have to stress it out over another transfer
It's holding my gem tang just fine. Ad if anything looks wrong its easy to pull him out
I have 3 Achilles & 2 powder blues in a 280 all do great! I will move them to my 500 with in a year or so! Most are slow to eating! But all of mine eat flakes, pellets, brine, myliss and lots of nori! They all eat off of the same clip with a 6inch black longnose tang! I do soak food in garlic & selcon
I completely agree on fish being different from one another! I've decided to use a large acclimation box for all of my fish going in the DT. It's so nice to get info from both sides! Thank you ! Congrats and good luck with your gem tang! I'm jealous !
Thanks the gem tangs eating but I think he wants out. He gave himself a little starch on his head trying to fit I between the holes.
I'm just super afraid my yellow will pick on him or my desjardini will...
My 90 is so packed I don't know how I will catch him...
This fish is an heart attack waiting to happen. I am always checking on him.
I could put him in my 60 with the sea horse and zoas but that tank runs on the low side of temp. 76 norm and 78 is the hottest it gets....
Hopefully you do not stress out this much with ur fish, I don't think I can handle this to much longer :help: