Achilles 1 Month Birthday

[Allan12]

This is Mr. Ichy after 31 days in this tank. It was purchased from Vets Pet Jan 29 Tuesday on a bag discount. He eats everything now including pellets, frozen, flakes, and his favorite nori (Ichy learn to eat on the vege-clip after 16 days). This is my first try on this fish so I hope he will be my guest for a long time.

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[cutterx23]

Oh man I'm so jealous!!! Chris is gettin mine as soon as I get his tank filled up and ready. Can't wait love those guys!! Did you pick it up that Tuesday in the bag or did Chris get it eating for you first?

[scubasteve]

NICE!!!! :D I heard from Cris that you and Pinoy had ordered them in- I must have just missed you guys picking them up that Tuesday.

[dc2sd]

damn allan, nice tank!! and nice tang! does he still have ich? i soaked my nori in garlic for my tangs and i think that really helps. still need to stop by sometime!

[Allan12]

Oh man I'm so jealous!!! Chris is gettin mine as soon as I get his tank filled up and ready. Can't wait love those guys!! Did you pick it up that Tuesday in the bag or did Chris get it eating for you first?

I got him on a bag discount...so no guarantee if it’s going to eat right away but we are lucky that Cris picked up a couple of healthy Achilles and before I put mine to my display I have to make sure he eat first, so the fish was in my 20 gallon holding tank only for a couple of days, but as soon he start eating nori and fish eggs then he claim the 150 gallon tank in the garage and the powder blue tang who reside there before, has to go to 125 gal in the living room with the rest of my tangs.

[Allan12]

damn allan, nice tank!! and nice tang! does he still have ich? i soaked my nori in garlic for my tangs and i think that really helps. still need to stop by sometime!

Yeah Mr. Ichy still have some spots but his skin is way more better now compare on his first 2 weeks, and yeah i do the same thing too but I switch from Seachem Garlic Guard to Kent Garlic Xtreme(bought it at Vets Pet) it response more better in my case and I also add some Selcon( bought it Aquatic Warehouse) to his food.

[HBOMB1]

This Achilles is a healthy and beautiful specimen. Due to the sensitive nature of acclimating this fish to captivity, I give props to Allan for keeping it alive. Good job son!

[XO PRESENTS]

Thats it.. I'm on the verrge of trapping and selling my tangs and starting all over with an Achillies first... hope to have a Achillies as gorgeous as yours Allan...

[Allan12]

This Achilles is a healthy and beautiful specimen. Due to the sensitive nature of acclimating this fish to captivity, I give props to Allan for keeping it alive. Good job son!

Thanks, HBOMB1 but..........

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/nofat_zps383718e8.jpg

[jonzee2006]

wow congrats those guys are tough I want one but I'm so scared to spend the money and not be able to get it to eat. plus I have a little tank now :(

[JohnnyAirtime]

Good job Allan...
Way to persevere!!!


Thats it.. I'm on the verrge of trapping and selling my tangs and starting all over with an Achillies first... hope to have a Achillies as gorgeous as yours Allan...

LOL... your just a sucker for an Achilles huh Ron?! :D



... I too would love to go that route. And pass them on by EVERYTIME I see one up North. No matter how beautiful they are. Hard to drop that kind of coin on a fish that could croak in a matter of days. Same with the Black Tang... such an awesome fish, just too rich for my blood.

[Allan12]

Thats it.. I'm on the verrge of trapping and selling my tangs and starting all over with an Achillies first... hope to have a Achillies as gorgeous as yours Allan...

Thanks Ron, yeah you only need to remove just the tangs temporarily to make sure no stress while Achilles get acclimated and eating most everything...and oh btw make sure he cannot see himself lol.. my Mr. Ichy was fighting on his own image at the back of the tank during the day the reflection is so clear when my day lights comes on and when he comes out from the battle it look like a rare white tang lol, he is covered with so much ick and I thought he is a goner, and his war with himself lasted for two weeks. His tank mates since day one are pair of snowflakes clownfish, cleaner wrasse and mystery wrasse.

[pinoyreef]

Congrats bud. Nice tank. I hope my tank look like that someday.

[Allan12]

Congrats bud. Nice tank. I hope my tank look like that someday.

Ha.. stop being humble John, you have a beautiful tank. Every time I come by and see your tank I just want to throw away mine and a very healthy/ick free Achilles. Do you want to trade Mr. Casper to Mr. Ichy? :lol:

[Allan12]

Happy 3-month birthday, nice color, no ich, very fat, and spoiled Mr Ichy!!!!

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/3rdBday_zpsdaca939d.jpeg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/3rdBday_zpsdaca939d.jpeg.html)

[jessegarcia28]

congratulations "son" :lol: jk
that cake is so cool, i want one for my b/day
jesse

[Allan12]

Hahahaha, I just pull that picture off the internet.

[JustKeepSwimmin]

Oh, happy birthday, Mr. Ichy!! It's almost my porcupine puffer, Punky's birthday as well, which coincides with mine (conveniently enough, he was purchase for my birthday three years ago). He also has a HORRIBLE case of ich right now. :/ but looks like he will make it to our bday! So happy for you and Ichy! :)

[Allan12]

I introduced some friends to Mr Ichy. I know this is a bad idea and I've been reading different forums about it. What I did is I kept the powder blue and purple tang on a fish trap for 2 days, and I keep replenishing the nori clip right beside the trap to kinda get them close to each other. The purple tang slipped through the first day and had minor aggression with the achilles tang, and today I've release the "Kraken" (powder blue). So far they eat all together but still have some aggression going on , we will see if this turns out good for me.

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_09192_zpse88a6a23.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_09192_zpse88a6a23.jpg.html)http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0923_zps79561ae0.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0923_zps79561ae0.jpg.html)

[h20poloman]

wow, GL with that...I'm considering an achilles and pbt in my new set up...you were even bold adding the purple as well. Hope it all works out, they are beautiful fish

[Allan12]

Thanks, I hope it will work out. The achilles aggression is divided into two of them so it's not just not one got picked on (learned from pinoyreef) :-)

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0921_zps43826cc9.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0921_zps43826cc9.jpg.html)http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_09193_zps8fee4ffc.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_09193_zps8fee4ffc.jpg.html)

[h20poloman]

very nice, beautiful looking tank too btw. I'm also considering achilles with a sohal instead of PBT. I'll definitely need more rockwork though as my tank is too open right now with not enough hiding spots

[Allan12]

Yeah I think having a lot of caves for hiding helps a lot and good luck with the sohal tang the one i have on 225 gal is a meany.

[HBOMB1]

Wow, amazing tank my friend! I hope someday mine will look as beautiful. Your aquascaping looks real nice. btw, nice fish!

[Allan12]

BTW, the established powder blue and purple tang came from my very dear friend Henry (HBOMB). Hats off to Henry for making that powder blue established and eating everything. At one time we thought we were losing the pbt because of the ick but it pulled through.

[Allan12]

Introducing Mr Spitter to the trio, I hope they will welcome him and not be killed :shocked:

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0371_zps5bb4c471.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0371_zps5bb4c471.jpg.html)http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0370_zps074fb7fe.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0370_zps074fb7fe.jpg.html)

[Allan12]

Just an update pictures of my trio...its been 5 months now since they have been introduced to each other.

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0277_zpsb0cb90d7.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0277_zpsb0cb90d7.jpg.html)http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0278_zpse60db682.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0278_zpse60db682.jpg.html)http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/allan121212/DSC_0280_zps98b1320b.jpg (http://s1096.photobucket.com/user/allan121212/media/DSC_0280_zps98b1320b.jpg.html)
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[HBOMB1]

Nice trio you got there, but what happened to Mr. Spitter?

[cardiffkook]

Beautiful fish - all of them look like primo picks! And the tank is not so bad either... wow amazing!

[pinoyreef]

Looking good.

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