How is the new livestock Tony?

[Bob I]

Did everything arrive at its destination in good health. I know my conch is hard at work. Alan's conch was hard at work in my refugium before alan picked it up today.

[Josh23]

thanks again guys for letting me become part of the order last night.
My snails and conch are busy at work (my tank needes it)
How is your Tang progressing Tony
Josh

[Delphinus]

Well, my tang is very nervous but is getting bolder. Ate vigorously when I fed some food. Hasn't discovered the nori in the tank yet. Very pretty fish.

He is, quite unfortunately, quite covered head to fin in ick. I do hope this clears quickly. I might be setting up a hospital tank. :x

I hope it's just shipping stress. :?

I seem to remember my yellow tang had ick too the first week. My current yellow tang (who is not my first), came from Deb's exquisite care and did not have ick whatsoever. It's been a while since I've had ick in my tanks (4 years). It cleared on its own that time, which is good, but also not so good because it means I honestly haven't a clue what to do now. Get some garlic extract, soak food in selcon or some such vitamin, and ... ? I guess I'll move my cleaners into this tank too, hopefully that could only help.

Anyone spot any cheap cleaner shrimp anywhere in town? Maybe I should pick up another pair.

[AJ_77]

Tony, the LSOH had some cleaners on the weekend, small and medium (he says large). I think they were 20 and 30 dollars. Yowch! :? Best of luck with your new fish - and the remedies.

(My FC is also doing OK, but took a couple of shots from another long-nosed tankmate.)

Aj .

[Canadian Man]

My conch is doing good too but the first time the conch put out one of it's eyes the Scooter Blennie came shooting out from the top of the rocks and tried to eat his eye. Quite funny.
They dont bother eachother now.

[Delphinus]

First day with the new camera (well, new to me ... it's a hand-me-down, it's power supply was kaput but I was able to find the short and fix it, now I have a digital camera! Yay! Old, but hey can't beat the price. I wish it could do macros though. I have to sit back like 3 feet to take a picture of the tank!)

Anyways, here's a picture. What do you guys think. I just adore this fish. I want to do the right thing. Is the right thing to do to let it settle for a day or two? Or should I panic and set up a hospital tank?

BTW, please tell me this is ick and not lateral line. What the ---- do I do, if it's the latter?

[EmilyB]

Lateral line is often thought to be the result of poor water quality, poor nutrition, or even stray voltage over a period of time for the fish. It can leave scars.

Doubtful for a new one, I would hope you got a healthy specimen.

I'd leave him now.

Edit. oh.

You will make him happy Tony.

[Canadian Man]

Leave it be Tony!
Spend your time working on your calcium reactor!

My scopas has had ick a few times in the earlier days when it was stressed. I just left him and made sure he had too much food to eat and now he's better.

Time is what he needs.

[Delphinus]

Thanks ...

PS. Alan thanks for the tip re. LSOH... From what I'm told $20 is a pretty decent price for a cleaner. For now I'll move my two out of my 50g (since they need to come out of there anyways if they want to stay in water beyond this week ) and maybe pick up two more for the other tank once it's filled up again.

[Aquattro]

Tony, nice fish. When I got my white cheek tang, it too was covered in ich. I said to heck with logic or common sense, and fed garlic oil on nori. The tang is now a happy healthy member of my tank. Would it have cleared on it's own? Who knows. But if I didn't feed garlic for a day, the ich came back. Feed and it went away again. After about 3 weeks of this, ich was gone permanently; now it just eats normal tang food with the rest of the population :-)