Unexpectedly, this weekend someone my spouse knows asked her if I'd be interested in their fish as they are moving pretty soon. With the exception of the engineer goby, almost every fish was on my wish list.
I went to the home to pick up the fish with buckets in hand, and from the list that I was provided before I showed up, it had to be a pretty large tank.
The list of livestock is: 3 x large bengai cardinals, 4 x large blue/green chromis, 1 yellow watchman goby (who is silver for some reason), 1 x massive 4 inch clown fish, 1 x 5 inch blue hippo tang, 1 x engineer goby (around 13" in length). All of these fish were in a tank no larger than 30 gallons, probably less.
Since I'm in the process of moving between my 55 and a 180, my 55 was empty besides the water and sand. It had never stopped filtering the water, so I added every fish I picked up and all the live rock and corals into the 55.
All fish looked thrilled to get into a larger tank, especially the tang and engineer. I guessed some of the ich issues i'd heard that the tang had formerly had was from stress of being in a smaller tank. The tang still has some ich on its rear (3) are visible.
My question is, how do I transition to putting any of them into the 180? If I know some of the fish might be sick, but the others look really healthy, how can I move forward? I will say I do have an additional 20G QT set up, but I was hoping I wasnt going to have to use it.
After I turned off the lights, I can see quite a population of bristle worms that I have never had in my tanks. I've read that they can be quite beneficial as a CUC, but I really dont want them at this stage. I was going to use a chisel and break off the soft corals from the live rock they are attached to (along with a minimal amount of rock), dip them in something like Coral RX and add to the 180. Is this reasonable?
Thanks for any advice
I went to the home to pick up the fish with buckets in hand, and from the list that I was provided before I showed up, it had to be a pretty large tank.
The list of livestock is: 3 x large bengai cardinals, 4 x large blue/green chromis, 1 yellow watchman goby (who is silver for some reason), 1 x massive 4 inch clown fish, 1 x 5 inch blue hippo tang, 1 x engineer goby (around 13" in length). All of these fish were in a tank no larger than 30 gallons, probably less.
Since I'm in the process of moving between my 55 and a 180, my 55 was empty besides the water and sand. It had never stopped filtering the water, so I added every fish I picked up and all the live rock and corals into the 55.
All fish looked thrilled to get into a larger tank, especially the tang and engineer. I guessed some of the ich issues i'd heard that the tang had formerly had was from stress of being in a smaller tank. The tang still has some ich on its rear (3) are visible.
My question is, how do I transition to putting any of them into the 180? If I know some of the fish might be sick, but the others look really healthy, how can I move forward? I will say I do have an additional 20G QT set up, but I was hoping I wasnt going to have to use it.
After I turned off the lights, I can see quite a population of bristle worms that I have never had in my tanks. I've read that they can be quite beneficial as a CUC, but I really dont want them at this stage. I was going to use a chisel and break off the soft corals from the live rock they are attached to (along with a minimal amount of rock), dip them in something like Coral RX and add to the 180. Is this reasonable?
Thanks for any advice
