Wait time

[TJ Reefer]

Last week I added a copperband. He didn't get along with my powder blue tang and the powder blue died a few days later. A friend told me not to get a new one till the tank settles down. Question should I wait a few weeks before replacing it or just get a new one soon.

 

[this is me]

What's the cause of death for the powder blue? Don't say the copperband beat it up because that will never happen.

 

[TJ Reefer]

I think just stress from the copperband in his turf. he was fine for months

 

[frank180reef]

Na

Perhaps the stress on the cb induced ick

Usually mixing a cb w any tang is a bad idea

 

[this is me]

I asked because you have to be honest here. Powder blue or any kind of Powder for that matter is a very ich prone fish and get stressed very easily. Most of the time, it gets aggressive towards new fish with the same shape and starts to chase after it. From this, it stressed itself and usually ich shows up.
If it is indeed ich or some other disease from either the Powder blue or the copperband, you have to slow down.
Otherwise, you can add a fish today but I wouldn't add a powder blue or brown.

I think just stress from the copperband in his turf. he was fine for months

 

[TJ Reefer]

Ok it happened so fast I didn't see signs of ich but that seems likely. the whole process was 48 hours.

 

[dz6t]

Velvet?

 

[PSU4ME]

Are you quarantining these fish or playing Russian roulette?

 

[TJ Reefer]

depends on the fish, sometimes roulette with the copperband. other fish get quarantined.

 

[this is me]

Once you roulette, there’s no point of QT. It only take that one fish to have something.

 

[TJ Reefer]

Once you roulette, there’s no point of QT. It only take that one fish to have something.

I only roulette when it has been quarantined at a certain store 2 weeks before I get it.