Originally Posted by promisetbg
You are paying for a service,and they brought you a fish with lymphocystis ?And they are giving you a dragonet for a newly set up tank?I recommend that you please research dragonets carefully before you consider keeping one.At least allow 10 months for your tank to mature.The foxface should be ok,and the lymph should fall off as long as a good varied diet is offered,and water quality is kept high.I would also consider another person to help with your set up...or just do the research and do it yourself.Foxface are not poisonous...their spines are venomous...just avoid the spines.They become very friendly,and will approach you to be hand fed.
Thank you for your advice. I asked the LFS about the Dragonet because I did question the maturity of our tank. They said it was "mature enough" for these reasons:
1. We have 130 lb. of liverock, & that's enough for 1 dragonet
2. Our liverock was cycled when we bought it (although our tank still cycled, so I'm not sure what exactly that meant)
3. The service guy said we have an unusual amount of copopods
4. With the size of our tank/live rock, the dragonet would be fine in a younger tank
5. I could buy the copopods they sell at the lfs if I felt there was a problem
Now with all that in mind, do you still feel that our tank is too young? I never want to buy a fish just because the salesman wants to make a sale, you know? And I questioned him pretty hard before I purchased him. I even told the LFS guy that I would take his card & come back in a few months to buy the dragonet (once our tank was older) so that he would get his sales credit! He still stuck with the thought that 1 dragonet in our 100gal/130lb live rock tank would be fine.
As far as the Foxface goes, we were at the LFS Saturday & I picked out the Foxface I wanted. They put him in a separate tank, & I didn't notice anything on his fins...and I looked him over carefully, so I"m confident it wasn't there Saturday. I called the LFS yesterday after they brought him & I noticed the lymphocystis. The Fish Manager said that it wasn't on Foxface when they bagged him for delivery that morning...I asked if it just sprouts up in a few hours? Said not likely, so they probably just didn't see it. I did call right away, & they have a 7 day guarantee for fish they deliver.
The LFS Fish Manager told me that they lymphocystis would either fall off with time & good food (we have green algae sheets, Frozen Formula Two, Marine Quisine, & Mysis Shrimp that he's eating currently), or it could be pulled off. She suggested I wait until the service guy comes back in 2 weeks if I didn't want to pull it off myself...let him do it.
That's what I know so far. I thought I was doing good....oh my...
Any opinions about the dragonet given the above details?
Yee-hawww!
