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- From: davep@paladin.corp.sgi.com (David Packer)
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- Subject: Re: [M] HELP! What happened to my Cowfish...
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:32:26 GMT
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- In my experience, I have found that adding live rock
- to an already established, non-live-rock or non-reef
- setup is a big NONO. Unless you take the measures to
- kill everything that could be a parasite on the live
- rock(which usually results in dead rock).
-
- I once(sniff :( ), had a beautiful Powder Blue Tang.
- In my 40G tank, (I have a reef also). He was the
- BFIT (BIG FISH IN TANK). He really made the tank
- lively and used to play and seemed to get along really
- well with my foxface.
-
- I put a piece of live rock in the tank, thinking that
- it would make the tank more "homey" for the fish. My
- blue tang got really sick and died about 5 weeks later.
- (Of black ich). My other fish broke out with various
- other strains of ich. So I treated the tank which
- stressed out the remaining 4 fish but killed the live
- rock and the ich. Now the rest of the fish are depressed,
- or maybe it's just me......
-
- Dave
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