New Powder Blue

Here's a good reason to QT your new fish. I bought a Powder Blue Tang 5 days ago and placed it in one of my QT tanks and it already has ich! Its doing well since I began treatment. It stopped eating for a couple of days and now is back to eating. I normally do a FW and methylene blue dip on all my new fish as well but didnt do it with this fish because they are so fragile.

 

Yikes. I actually considered a sm powder blue one of my LFSs has for like $60 but couldn't bring myself to do it. Glad I didn't because upon further research, and this exactly, I found they are quite difficult. Good luck man. I truly hope he pulls through!

 

Powder Blue's are not as hardy as far as Tangs are concerned, though Tangs are notorious for getting Ich...Have to acclimate well and limit the amount of stress for them for ideal health IMO!
Good luck with your Tang...they are beautiful! I wan't an Atlantic Blue Tang!

 

Good call on QT!!! You can probably save him in there by doing hypo, and dosing copper. In 2 weeks the ick should be gone, and if I were you I would wait one extra week just to make sure he is eating well, and fully healed. Good luck with that guy!! They are a very beautiful fish!!!

 

I'm a sucker for hard to keep fish. I've been lucky so far with being able to keep Moorish Idols and Copperbands. I dont like buying hard to keep fish but I'm willing to go the distance to try and keep them alive. I just hate it when I see a store carry these fish because they have such a dismal survival record in captivity. I feel that their better in my hands then some poor schmuck that buys it and doesnt know how to take care of it.

 

True That!! I would never buy a moorish idol from a store, but if someone already had one, and sold it to me I would take care of it to the best of my ability!! Karma for your!!

 

I hear that! So many pet shops that I have seen...and I have seen my share of them, the conditions that livestock are kept in is a wonder that they have lasted as long as they have. They are like death traps for fish, corals, and inverts, not to mention their reptiles etc.!!!

 

My Idol has been alive for over a year now, so I hope I'm over the hump with it. Its a great fish and eats just about everything including flake food which is great for when I go on vacation.