Powder Blue raffle prize

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Reefmike

8th pick in the raffle last night netted me a Powder Blue tang (many thanks to Tri) .
His water was a little cloudy so I rushed home pretty quick to start the acclimation. After floating for 20 min. to match temp. I opened the bag and checked salinity. 1.025 which is what I keep my tank at. pH was a little low. He looked bright and alert in the bag.
I started him on a 4 per second drip. When the bag water doubled I drained it back down and increased the drip rate a little. I continued that until about 1:00am when I put him in the tank. He found him a spot for the night right away.
This morning before work I looked in on him with the red flashlight and he was looking fine. Came in for lunch to check on him and he is acting like he's been in the tank for a while. Very pretty fish. Bright colors, alert. Now if he'll just eat it'll all be good.
 
sweet, its always nice when it works out well, congrats. we actually made out with a purple fire fish and he is doing great this morning as well, but im with you, waiting for him to eat, we will see tonight
 
You know Mike, you are by far one of the luckiest raffle ticket holders I know!

Will you go with me to buy a lottery ticket!?

Can you post a pic? I really want to have one of the PBTs and am a little nervous about the care level needed. Keep us posted.

Take care,
Gail
 
I'm so glad you posted this. I really was worried about that guy, and am actually amazed it survived drip acclimation.

Congrats!
 
Had he not been so alert and active in the bag I definitely would have used a much speedier method. As it was I was hovering over him the entire time watching.
I'll try to get a pic up ASAP.
 
is he eating tonight? mine is, woot! that 2-3 for me, ill take it i guess...good luck
 
@GraviT wrote:
Congratulations! Now you have a reason to buy a larger tank! :lol: said:
I had a reason for larger with my Hippo. Now I have a reason for MUCH larger!

@Serk wrote:
Guess we'll hafta make sure there's a bigger tank in the Next Wave raffle so Mike can upgrade! :wink: said:
180 - 200g would be perfect! :wink:
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@WeMa wrote:
is he eating tonight? said:
He ate. I had to go away from the tank as he's of course a little shy right now so had to watch from the door across the room at an angle. He's also grazing around the tank. So far I haven't seen any aggressive behavior from the Hippo. He's been there a while but he's also a bit smaller.
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He'll get over his shyness within a couple of days.

We have a powder blue in our tank too that we bought online... and he is definietly not shy anymore... but he stays away from all the larger tangs, which dont bother him anymore.

I'm glad your enjoying that beautiful fish. We love ours.
 
I have a PB as well great character. He gets jealous easily if I get real close to the tank to look at something he will come right up against the glass, looking eye to eye with me. He will do this over and over if I am looking at something.
 
I was so worried about that fish. I gave Marc some water I had just taken out of my tank and brought to put in bags for frags. I gave it to him for that poor powder blue! I bought one too but picked mine up in the a.m. I am qt'ing him now. He's doing great but has a little ich. No matter, because he's already in hypo. When I got mine home I tested the water and the ammonia was 2, so I immediately put him in the good water. That's why I was worried about the one at the meeting because he had been in the bag all day.

So glad Reef Mike you got him. Keep us updated on his progress.

Mine is small. Do you think my bellus angel will beat up on him when I add him to display? Or maybe he will beat up on my angel. I doubt it though because she is queen of the tank.

Kay
 
He'll be fine and hold his own and anything in there before him should be fine. It's just after you have to worry about.
 
I didn't notice this thread until now. Glad to hear that the powder blue is doing well in your tank. You may want to thank allhobbs for donating the powder into the raffle. :D
 
Just a quick update. He's doing great. Grazing, eating, and starting to get over the shyness. Still haven't been able to get a good pic.
 
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