From: rbennet1@neumann.une.edu.au (Robert Bennetts.)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: [M] Help!!!!!
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:28:17 GMT
Followup-To: rec.aquaria


	help!!!!

	Oh my god...
	I have just been through a fishy nightmare...

	I have set up a hospital tank (it's really just a large 10gal plastic container) to treat my blue tang who suddenly appears to have a case of oodinium?(tiny whites spots on fins and body, turned cottony after 1 day, tried fresh water bath, after 3 min he was playing dead and not reacting to any tap on side of conatiner or anything so I put him back in the tank.
	My manual of marine inverts book (tetrapress v. good) came in to the local fish store this morning, so while I was up there I told warren (the owner) about my tang and he suggested the Organi_Cure (see my previous post), says they use it all the time and it is great.
	I set up my hospital box tonight and put the tang in. he hid next to one of the flower pot/hiding places and I hope he will be a bit better in the morning.
	Just as I think all is fine, I look over at the reef, and it is looking a bit milkey all of a sudden, on closer inspection I found that my sea apple is spurting out two long thin threads of some goup, and becasue he is above the water outlet, this stuff is soon spread all throughout the tank.
	Can anyone tell me what is happening here... is there something wrong with this beast or is it making babies or is it bleeding...help???
	As I was examining tha tank and it's contents, I notice that my pair of skunk clowns also have the same problem as the tang, so I figure I'll just put them in the hospital with Mr. Tang and hope they all get better.
	Mr skunk goes in fine, but then I try to catch Mrs. Skunk but she doesn't want to be caught. This is one of the major pains in the butt with having a reef tank.. you just about have to rip the whole thing down to find a fish if it wants to hide from you, after about 20 minutes of playing with my fishy friend I finally get her in the net, and take her over to the hospital box, but when I go to tip her in to the hospital, she won't do that either, she is stuck in the net.  I tried everything to free her, an



d eventually had to take her softly in my hands and very carefully cut the net away from her.  She seems allright at the moment, I hope it wasn't too much stress for her.
	Well that was my night in fishy hell, I hope all that gunk gets filtered away by the morning, or I will have to do something with that little sea apple.
	Another thing is that one of my anenomes is very unhealthy, just my luck, it will probably die overnight, and the sea apple gunk will turn out toxic, and I will end up with a tank full of death in the morning (rb the eternal pessimist at work again).
	Oh well, I have rambled on enough for tonight, wish me luck for tommorrow, I may need it.
	Has anyone else got any good fish room hell stories...

	cul8r...

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