Black Ick Question

pufferlover

pufferlover

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A member from my other club has posted me with a question that I need help on. He has a 1200 gallon tank he cares for and all I could really get from his post was that he recently added some yellow tangs (you know my thoughts on yellow tangs) and now they have black spot problems, he also believes the coral beauty in the tank may now have it. Anyway I searched all my books and all the articles here on the search feature in order to at least tell him what he could use and found most of the posts here suggest copper, formalin products (this will cost a arm and leg won't it) and even hypo (not practicle in that size tank I would guess). Anyway any quick ideas of anything he can try. Now I tried but could not get info on testing results. The other thing I noticed on the posts in search were dips (if he can get the fish out of the tank). I avoid yellows so I won't have problems now I get questioned about how to deal with it lol. I realize any answers with such little info is hardly exact science but throw me a bone or two to give the poor guy. You know it isn't me as I haven't had a yellow in years and wouldn't have one. Those of you who love yellows don't hate me I am just being honest about my own feelings.
 
playtime

playtime

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puffer
I agree that freshwater dips are the quickest way but I always worry about the stress the fish will go through. When my yellow tang got black ich, I did a freshwater dip but in the day that followed, he developed ich (white) due to stress. It is almost like danged if you do, and danged if you don't. :eek: I wish your friend all the luck. There is nothing worse than loosing a fishey friend. I know from experience.
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pufferlover

pufferlover

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Thanks all I passed your info on to him and he e mailed me tonight that he went with the dipping for now. I passed on your comments about it not being to bad. I still can't seem to get a lot of info out of him but what the heck we deal with lack of info here all the time. One thing I never want to do is give advice at our club that I have no knowledge of so thank goodness for my membership here and your help when needed.
 
playtime

playtime

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I know that stress doesn't cause ich but it does lessen their ability to fight it. I will say this, when my yellow tang got black ich, then ich on top of that, he died of coarse. The night before, he was swimming fine, and eating fine, woke up the next morning with red spots, removed him and put him in qt when the white spots appeared. No fish had been in that tank for quite some time and it is treated with copper. No other fish in my display tank contracted ich. Maybe it wasn't ich, maybe a fungus or something else, but it resembled ich and killed my tang. I will never claim to be an ich expert, just discussing my thoughts. Never said they were right.
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