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fireblade

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I added a regal tang into my tank. As always, when I have added a new fish to my tank, the yellow tang took a couple a runs at the regal. As a result, he has a small cut on his side. He is eating and swimming around fine and it doesn't seem to be bothering him at all. The colour af the area around the cut has fadded a little bit, looks a little bit greener than normal.

I am worried about an infection though. I want to try to catch him and put him back in the quarentine tank until he is healed. Problem is, after I released him into my main tank, I went out and bought some live rock which i put in the QT tank to cure. Not thinking that there could be a problem when I released him.

I am planning on leaving him there over night. In the mean time, I have mixed up 10 gallons of water in case I have to move him. I will put the new live rock in plastic pails and do a 100 % water change in the QT tank, add some live rock from my display tank and hope that the water parameters are ok then leave him there untill he looks normal again.

I amthinking that moving him twice in 2 days might be pretty stressful to him and need to know if this would be the right thing to do.

The two tangs have been swimming around like they are old friends ever since. The yellow tang did the same thing to my yellow stripped maroon a couple of months ago when I added him to the tank but he wasn't injured.

Any thoughts would be appreciate.
 

tazdevil

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Watch the healing process carefully. I'd leave him in the main tank, for the reasons you've already presented (2 moves-short time perioe= higher stress levels). Any sign of infection though, be prepared to remove him for treatment.
 

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