The rescue mission
The photo below is supposed to be a regal tang. He was advertised for sale on ebay for the meager price if £2. The picture below is actually the ebay photo. After various members of Ultimate Reef contacting the seller she decided to withdraw the sale and hand the fish over to someone else with the intention of helping it to recover. He know resides in my display tank after a being in quarantine with medication and a few medicated dips. He has major HLLE beginning to get a firm hold on him, his face and gill covers are massively erroded and the lateral line is just starting to form pits along it. He has also been in some major battles and has old bite scars along his flanks. His fins have been chewed away and also a possible fin rot infection hasn't helped. The caudal fin is so badly chewed it is growing back deformed.
So who is to blame? the owner for letting it get like this or the shop for obviously selling a delicate animal that needs expert care?
The photo below is supposed to be a regal tang. He was advertised for sale on ebay for the meager price if £2. The picture below is actually the ebay photo. After various members of Ultimate Reef contacting the seller she decided to withdraw the sale and hand the fish over to someone else with the intention of helping it to recover. He know resides in my display tank after a being in quarantine with medication and a few medicated dips. He has major HLLE beginning to get a firm hold on him, his face and gill covers are massively erroded and the lateral line is just starting to form pits along it. He has also been in some major battles and has old bite scars along his flanks. His fins have been chewed away and also a possible fin rot infection hasn't helped. The caudal fin is so badly chewed it is growing back deformed.
So who is to blame? the owner for letting it get like this or the shop for obviously selling a delicate animal that needs expert care?
Despite all of the problems that the little fellow has had he really is a fighter. He eats as much as I can put in front of him and shows no fear when I feed him from my fingers. I did originally go to fetch him from the owner with the intention of euthanasia but after thinking about what he's gone through for apparently 2 years, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So here we are today after having the best enriched foods I can get hold of and excellent water quality his face has slowly turned blue again after only days. There's just a patch around his eye stil that is healing and his fins are slowly growing back, even the rays on them are growing.
For the soppy people out there, he has been christened ' Miracle ' by my wife because she thinks that it's a miracle he's alive!!
For the soppy people out there, he has been christened ' Miracle ' by my wife because she thinks that it's a miracle he's alive!!
