Thalasstronaut
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I’ll be attaching photos. I’ve had my lantern bass for a few months. I recently moved my tank, a 90 gallon. The process I followed was:
Fill spare 55 gallon tank with some rock from display, as well as some sand. Fill with 50% new saltwater and 50% display tank water. Add fish and inverts.
I moved my tank, added new substrate, and then moved over my rock, save for a few pieces in the holding tank.
I filled my tank with new saltwater (rodi, if it matters.) and began moving over my life stock once temp and salinity stabilized. All told the fish went into the holding tank on Friday and into the display this morning.
The one fish I didn’t intend on moving was my lantern bass. He is going to go in my sump once that’s up and running. (He ate a tankmate.) I used the opportunity while moving fish to isolate him from the rest. I have him in a 10 gallon tank with old substrate, rock, and water.
He seemed the most stressed by the whole ordeal. The other fish seemed fine after an hour or so in the holding tank, but he hid the whole time. And I just noticed in his new temporary home that he has a lesion on his side that’s pretty large. I’m curious what this could be— injury or illness. Is it possible while I was trying to net him he scraped himself on a rock? He was really hard to catch. Or is this likely a latent pathogen that had the opportunity to manifest because of the stress?
Every fish in the tank before the move was happy and feeding normally. He’s by far the fastest swimmer in the tank and he ate at every meal. He did his perching thing like usual. This behavior coincided completely with the tank transfer so I’m sure there’s some trigger in that method that I set off.
Follow up question would be what the remedy here would be?
I doubt it was a tankmate but who knows. He’s been with two perc clowns, a starry blenny, a flame hawkfish, blue dragonet, and a pistol shrimp. Lantern bass was the newest addition and this was maybe 4-5 months ago?
Fill spare 55 gallon tank with some rock from display, as well as some sand. Fill with 50% new saltwater and 50% display tank water. Add fish and inverts.
I moved my tank, added new substrate, and then moved over my rock, save for a few pieces in the holding tank.
I filled my tank with new saltwater (rodi, if it matters.) and began moving over my life stock once temp and salinity stabilized. All told the fish went into the holding tank on Friday and into the display this morning.
The one fish I didn’t intend on moving was my lantern bass. He is going to go in my sump once that’s up and running. (He ate a tankmate.) I used the opportunity while moving fish to isolate him from the rest. I have him in a 10 gallon tank with old substrate, rock, and water.
He seemed the most stressed by the whole ordeal. The other fish seemed fine after an hour or so in the holding tank, but he hid the whole time. And I just noticed in his new temporary home that he has a lesion on his side that’s pretty large. I’m curious what this could be— injury or illness. Is it possible while I was trying to net him he scraped himself on a rock? He was really hard to catch. Or is this likely a latent pathogen that had the opportunity to manifest because of the stress?
Every fish in the tank before the move was happy and feeding normally. He’s by far the fastest swimmer in the tank and he ate at every meal. He did his perching thing like usual. This behavior coincided completely with the tank transfer so I’m sure there’s some trigger in that method that I set off.
Follow up question would be what the remedy here would be?
I doubt it was a tankmate but who knows. He’s been with two perc clowns, a starry blenny, a flame hawkfish, blue dragonet, and a pistol shrimp. Lantern bass was the newest addition and this was maybe 4-5 months ago?
