Aw man, Bfrench, why did you have to call attention to it. I was trying to skulk in the background and hope nobody notices I haven't put the fish back in yet.
So, as usual, long story short... I've created more problems for myself. I'm actually at a point of a dilemma and wasn't sure where to go from here so I was going to setup a poll to see what the people of ARC thought I should do.
So this happened. Right before my 76 days fallow was about to be complete, I ran across a red sea regal that was already eating and at a ridiculous price, even shipped. I had to jump on it. I got the guy and sadly couldn't get him to reproduce the same eating that the seller had on his video. He started to get skinnier in the TTM and by the 6-7th day, looked a bit weak. I didn't want to chance losing him so I put him in the tank even though he never completed the TTM to rid him of ich. Fast forward to now, he's the only one in the tank, he's eating pellets and stuff off the rocks like a pig, and he's got ich.
So now, do I want to do another 76 days to go fallow again after he puts back on a lot of weight first?
Risk the other fish and put them all in hoping that my newly plumbed 110-watt UV sterilizer (3' wide) keeps the ich at bay.
Or ditch the achilles tang and the powder blue tang and go back to an ich-maintenance tank like I've done the last 12 years?