monalisa
Active Member
I've been looking around for a thread that I posted on regarding a shipment that my daughter and I received from SWF.com on Tuesday, and I can't find it anywhere. The jist of it was that that the shipment...with 3 fish included...arrived with the water very cold (this is Wisconsin in February).
Anyway, my daughter called me and stated that "all the fish are dead, water's cold, and all the fish are dead". She also thought the 2 orange linckia stars were gone.
We started temperature acclimation and I noticed that 2 of the fish, a blenny of some kind (that is my daughter's fish) and the blackcap basslet were showing improvement, very little improvement, but improvement nonetheless. We decided to go ahead and acclimate as usual which is drip acclimation 3 1/2 - 4 hours keeping an eye on the temperature in particular. By the end of the acclimation process, I noticed that my blackcap's breathing was normal.
When I released my new blackcap, he took off like a bullet. My daughter said that her blenny has been fine, and is eating pellets, but no sign of her R gramma, which also took off like a bullet on release and was breathing fine at the end of acclimation. My blackcap has been out and eating just fine, especially today. Both starfish are doing great too.
Now we're just waiting for the R gramma to make an appearance.
I came this close to giving up in my blackcap, he looked so much like he wasn't going to make it...I'm SO glad I didn't give up on him.
More to come...happy, I hope.
Lisa
Anyway, my daughter called me and stated that "all the fish are dead, water's cold, and all the fish are dead". She also thought the 2 orange linckia stars were gone.
We started temperature acclimation and I noticed that 2 of the fish, a blenny of some kind (that is my daughter's fish) and the blackcap basslet were showing improvement, very little improvement, but improvement nonetheless. We decided to go ahead and acclimate as usual which is drip acclimation 3 1/2 - 4 hours keeping an eye on the temperature in particular. By the end of the acclimation process, I noticed that my blackcap's breathing was normal.
When I released my new blackcap, he took off like a bullet. My daughter said that her blenny has been fine, and is eating pellets, but no sign of her R gramma, which also took off like a bullet on release and was breathing fine at the end of acclimation. My blackcap has been out and eating just fine, especially today. Both starfish are doing great too.
Now we're just waiting for the R gramma to make an appearance.
I came this close to giving up in my blackcap, he looked so much like he wasn't going to make it...I'm SO glad I didn't give up on him.
More to come...happy, I hope.
Lisa