Diseased Kole Tang

[mikeyjer]

I've got a Kole Tang that had some sort of fungal infection before. I treated him in the QT tank for a month before. He started to feel better and looking better. I put him back in his main tank for about a week now and tonight when I come home, he was laying on the bottom of the tank. I do not understand what is going on with him. The other two fish are looking just fine, niger trigger and a yellow tang. He seems to be covered with a white film all over. All of his spots from before hasn't all gone away yet either. He's looking very pale. I read in the fish section that they're supposed to be easy to take care of. All I've been having is trouble with this one. I don't know what else to do for him. I have him in a QT tank right now, he just lays on the bottom not moving. Fixing to do the same treatment he had before by using Maroxy. I don't think he's gonna make it through the night...help me!!!

 

[lefty]

Sorry to hear your fish isn't doing so well. Before we can give you an official diagnosis, I need you to answer a few questions:
1.)What makes you think your tang had a fungal infection as opposed to something else?
2.) Are the spots little white dots or large spots of some sort?
3.) Does the white film look slimy, fuzzy, or what?
4.) When you treated him/her before, did he/she display the same symptoms?
Welcome to the boards! :happyfish
-lefty

 

[mikeyjer]

He passed away wednesday morning...Thank you for replying...He had brown spots before, looks like it was deterioting...He looks very pale, in the fresh water dip, white slimy stuffs that looks like scales fell off...It worked last time, but it was so late in the night, no way to go get water to change for the QT tank, I believe it needed some water change. It was such an emergency, I wanted to change water as early as possible, but could not since I caught it at 11pm. Everything was closed, had no chance to change water. I've learned my lesson by keeping extra water around. Thanks for your help, I don't think I will get another kole tang again. Just too much to go through, too painful to watch...

 

[crazyaqua]

Sorry to hear about your loss I also have a kole tang and for the first few months i kept him in a seperate tank trying to treat him for ick after several months of just feeding him food with garlic he finally kicked the ick.