August-October 2006
Posted on Thursday, 19 October, 2006 at 3:26 PM by miskairal
The 22nd of August saw my purchase of a goatfish. I should have
known not to get involved with something with goat in it's name but some
of us just never learn. I put this fish in the Peregian tank with the
Mandarin as I figured it was a form of quarantine and Mandarins aren't
supposed to get white spot (more reading tells me otherwise). I don't
want to go into a lot of detail here but the goatfish died on the 23rd
September and and Angelina died on the 24th, both from white spot.
Angelina was a very outgoing little girl although I never saw her eat
any food I placed in the tank. She had the hots for my husband I suspect
because she used to do little dance things for him which I managed to
capture on video but have never had the heart to look at.
On the 12th of October I rescued some stock for a guy in Kingaroy
who's lights had failed and he couldn't replace them. I arrived to find
a very white anemone blowing around the floor of the tank, a gonipora
that was looking good, a sinularia that was ok and two other leather
corals that had an unhealthy colour to them. The two leathers died, the
gonipora thrived until my last tank break and the anemone has fully
recovered and grown and been taken over by my clowns. The finger leather
appeared to thrive for a couple of months then all of a sudden the base
turned white and it kind of fell over and shrivelled up. I moved it over
to the Peregian tank and it is now looking good again.
I setup an old 4 foot freshwater tank as a proper quarantine tank in
October 2006 complete with PVC pipe for hidey holes and moved te Eheim
canister filter over to it. On the 19th of October I bought a decorated
goby (called Gollum) and put him in quarantine. Nice fish and easy to
care for he is a sand sifting goby who eats just about anything that
goes in the tank. He is unable to swim to any degree and instead lives
on the bottom only occasionally getting as high as 10 cm in pusuit of
food. He even eats flakes but they come back out through his gills
usually. So Gollum briefly had the Q tank all to himself. I will be
forever greatful that he didn't carry any disease because of what
happened next.
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