Sick Tang

[crawdaddy]

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My new tang has several little bumps, they have just appeared today. He is eating and appears in good spirits. I have read some of the other posts and am not sure if this is ich. Does anyone have any ideas. Thank you.

 

[120reefer]

Depends, most likely is ich tho. What color are the spots? how long ago did you get the tang? how long/how did you acclimate him? What size tank, and what are your parameters?

 

[crawdaddy]

I got the tang 6 days ago and it just popped up today. The spots are little whites bumps that appear to be under the skin, no other fish appears to have any. I acclimated him for an hour. All my levels are good except my nitrates are a little high due to the fact I have added a couple of fish a coral banded shrimp and some more snails. Is there some medicine that can fix this or is this a major problem?

 

[120reefer]

appear to be under and not on top of the skin? I would advise you to still perform hypo salinity in a QT tank. Do a search on this and how to perform, you could do that or treat with copper depending on what the outbreak is, but DEFINATELY do not, i repeat, do not treat your main display tank! When you say your levels are GOOD with the exeption of trates.... do you mean like.... ph-8.2, ammonia-0, nitrite-0 and nitrates-20... or something worse? Also you never gave your tank size, which could play a big role in the outbreak among other things

 

[crawdaddy]

Tank is a 48g bf, with 75 lbs lr and a 3 inch cc bed. the levels you gave are correct. What causes something like this? I have only been doing this for 10 mths and I took my time and started with the lr, one damsel and 5 hermit crabs. Over the past couple of weeks I have added snails, shrimp, blue tang, clown and a foxface. Did I do something that would have caused this?

 

[120reefer]

Welp, unfortunately your tank is honestly too small for the tang and possibly the fox, but besides that... you may have acclimated him a little fast.. i usually like to do about a 2+hour drip, and then put into a QT tank for about 2-4 weeks to be sure of no outbreaks and THEN into the display. You can definately get him healthy again tho, Just do some researchon QT tanks to properly treat him and then after... i would really think about returning the BT if possible to prevent another outbreak. Also, you said you added these fish within the past weeks, what other livestock do you have in there besides those? Please don't think im picking on you here, just trying to help