whitespot and live rock, not forgetting the fish.

[tekkno]

After calculating this months deficit i set off to buy a) more live
rock, b)a dwarf angelfish, c)a blue cheeked blenney and last but not
least a particular coral from one of the lfs's. I came back with the
coral ok but the live rock and Coral Beauty i want (have paid deposit)
are in a tank with a Regal Tang which is all stressed out and, you
guessed it, looks like it has whitespot. The owner of the LFS wouldn't
let me take the fish or the live rock telling me to come back in a
week and see how things are. As i know they have treat the tank for
ich what about the live rock? I really need some guidance on this one
as i quite simply don't have the experience to make a judgement.

tekkno

[Teeb]

Depends on what they used to treat it with.. copper I *think* shouldn't be
used on live rock because it can kill off all kinds of hidden critters, but
I may be wrong. He sounds like a reasonably responsible store owner for a
change though. There are alot who would have just removed the sick fish from
the tank leaving customers none the wiser that there was a problem with that
tank and the things left in it.

Teeb

"tekkno" > wrote in message
...
> After calculating this months deficit i set off to buy a) more live
> rock, b)a dwarf angelfish, c)a blue cheeked blenney and last but not
> least a particular coral from one of the lfs's. I came back with the
> coral ok but the live rock and Coral Beauty i want (have paid deposit)
> are in a tank with a Regal Tang which is all stressed out and, you
> guessed it, looks like it has whitespot. The owner of the LFS wouldn't
> let me take the fish or the live rock telling me to come back in a
> week and see how things are. As i know they have treat the tank for
> ich what about the live rock? I really need some guidance on this one
> as i quite simply don't have the experience to make a judgement.
>
> tekkno
>

[TomW]

What about "base rock" ?

I recently set up a hospital tank and pulled a few pieces of non-live "base"
rock from my tank for the fish to hide around.

When I returned the fish (1 healed/survived) to the tank, I rinsed the rock
and returned it to the main tank as well.

Was this a mistake?