new coral beauty

Question
i just this afternoon added a coral beauty angel to my 40 gallon reef tank, the other tank mates are a small tang a clown a pixy hawk and a small damsel and two coral banded shrimp. the acclimationw2 as somewhat rushed as there was a dire situation involving the outlet behind the tank. but after being introduced into the tank he has started to swim at the top of the tank with his body angled at about 45 degrees, he isnt gasping for air or anything, and his color is very vibrant, i cant think of what might be wrong, hes been in the tank about 2 hours as of now. the tang, which was introduced in the same manner from the same tank at the lfs is acting fine. i hope you can help he waqs quite expensive. thanks marcus

Answer
Hi Marcus,

Keep monitoring your Coral Beauty Angelfish (Centropyge bispinosa), as it's stressed from being introduced to its new home. They are fairly hardy so it may make a full recovery. Keep your aquarium lights off for a while, and make sure you have lots of hiding places and live rock for grazing.

In the future, before immediately introducing a new fish into your main show tank, you may want to keep it in a separate quarantine tank for a few weeks first. In this manner you can monitor it and make sure it's fully healthy, disease free, and parasite free, prior to introducing it in your show tank.

I wish you luck with it's recovery.

Regards,
Dave

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