ich?

[rkmayphd]

I have had my purple tang for about 2 weeks (no QT, a newbie mistake). Within a few days of bringing him home he developed a couple of white spots. I was pretty sure it was ich. Over the past 2 weeks he has had a few more saltlike crystals, but many more that were not salt like, they were not really white.
His behavior has been otherwise unremarkable- Very active and eating voracioulsly
I thought maybe:
1) spots where the ich was
2) spots where my cleaner shrimp had "cleaned" him or
3) permanent scar tissue or
4) less than white ich
I will try posting a couple pics, but am not sure if you will be able to see anyting.
Any input would be appreciated.
I have been feeding him garlic soaked food (beths recipie soaked in fresh garlic) as well as hanging garlic soaked algae sheets every other day.

 

[mrducks]

Hard to say, ick does seem have a way of changing its appearance. Either way tangs are quite ich magnets so it probably was/is some kind of parasite. You say it wasnt really white, what color was it?

 

[mrducks]

ya it is kind of hard to see in the pictures.