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09-14-2007, 04:54 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 30
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sorry to hear of the departure of a cool fish "bucky tang" . Karma for your loss dood   _________ 4x24w T5ho 135ltr/35gal marine cube 15kg of liverock Mandarin Goby, Zoanthids(orange and yellow) Hammer coral , red and blue coralmorphs.  Got Questions? Need Answers?
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09-14-2007, 05:51 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Originally Posted by Tangster  The health depends on who supplies them their fish! Usually cheap retail means cheap wholesale .. Not all collectors are created equal.. I have several wholesalers I deal with on live fish and one is great everything comes in fat healthy and eating like a pig the other one not so good and some I won't even deal with. Now the good one cost more about 20% on average. But they like us hold all fish for a few weeks to month to be sure they are healthy and eating and acclimated to tank life.. I pay that 20% every time I order from them.. I'd bet at PETCO they sell mostly cyanide collected fish hence the rep the have for dead fish floating in their tanks.. There is a lot if stuff to know about how this industry operates..Its fish eat fish if you don't know..
Minnows swimming with sharks the sharks win. Good luck with the Pet Co thing | The place deathco buys there stock from is the same place the quality LFS here buys from, its just that the deathco tanks are not taken care of and once they get a parasite in there system, they never take care of it, so every other fish that is every introduced to their systems get the parasites. _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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09-14-2007, 06:08 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
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Originally Posted by geekdafied The place deathco | Well with a company name like Death Co. What did you expect. Sorry for the fishes untimely demise
John | |
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09-14-2007, 06:13 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Originally Posted by fletch Well with a company name like Death Co. What did you expect. Sorry for the fishes untimely demise
John | BuckieTang did not come from deathco. | |
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09-14-2007, 06:20 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Vlamingii Tang
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Oh Sorry that name just sent up a red flag to me, I didn't read the whole Post. Sorry for your loss John | |
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09-14-2007, 06:32 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
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How big was the gold rim tang? They are a nice fish. | |
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09-14-2007, 06:52 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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I'm sorry for your lose, I hope that you dont lose anymore.  _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | 
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09-14-2007, 07:48 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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Originally Posted by fletch How big was the gold rim tang? They are a nice fish. |
He was about 3", I got him when he was about 2"-2 1/4", still have the juvi stripes when I got him. Had just started showing the orange stripe in the top fin. | |
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09-14-2007, 11:09 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TN Age: 31
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As of right now, my methods for the QT are working. The female clown looks a lot better and the male looks perfect the coral beauty looks good too. I plan on keeping them in the QT for 6-8 weeks minimum. I am using cupramine along with hyposalinty. The salinity isnt to low right now cause I am still adjusting them to it, its 1.015. After the intial 14 day treatment with cupramine, Im doing a 50% water change and dropping it down to about 1.012, then waiting a week and treating with cupramine again and dropping the salinity down to 1.010. Then everything should be fine after that. After all treatments, I am transfering the 3 fish to a 40g holding tank and then work on stocking the QT with new fishies. Observing the new fishies for a minimum of 4 weeks and treating as needed.
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09-15-2007, 08:16 AM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
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That sucks, But I am glad that you were able to save some of your fish.
I am sure you already know this but before you but your fish in the holding tank don't forget to slowly acclimate them back to there normal salinity | |
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