My gorgeous new yellow and white dragon OHM boy came into Seattle on Monday, but I couldn't get in touch with the transhipper, Jeff Wilson, until yesterday. He told me that I had "one gorgeous fish" ready and even offered to deliver him! He said he would put the fish in his saddlebag on his Harley and drive him up to the city!!
Everyone thought the poor thing was dead when he got here-- he was so pale and still after all the traveling he had to do to get to me... but after a couple of hours of acclimating to his tank, I soon set him free. Last night he was listless and stayed pretty much to the bottom of the tank, but this morning he is swimming around happily, and was VERY glad to see his breakfast!!
I am a bit upset because his back fin is REALLY torn up-- about half of it missing, as a matter of fact. He is showing no signs of illness, infection or disease, so I think that either he got nipped, or he chewed his own tail from the stress. I'm helping two of my other newer boys, Shandy & Tang, to recover from massive fin damage from a too-powerful filter intake at the LFS, and they are making great improvements, so I'm confident in my ability to heal my new boy, but it really makes me sick to see that big, gorgeous tail in such bad shape!!
He's really much brighter and more golden than his photos showed him to be. He's quite stunning... even in his rough shape, he's been much admired by all of my flatmates since he arrived. His pictures just did not do him justice!
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He came in style, eh? lol Can't wait to see him.
) This weekend I plan to shoot some photos of him, even though it kills me to look at that mess of a tail 
-- I want some good "before & after" shots.