will tang still eat with ick?

[badkjb2]

im not sure if he has ick or not, but he is swimming good, and eating good. he had white spots on his fins when i first got him, and they went away after about a week of scratching. now he has them again, and i see a little something on his face. any ideas?

 

[jakob4001]

from what I have seen posted, ick has various life stages; 1 includes "shedding" from infected fish only to release it's eggs into the substrate then to hatch & become free floating to a point where infects the fish again; ideally you would remove all fish from the display tank & place in an EXISTING Q tank & leave display tank fish free for at least few weeks while treating fish in the Q tank...but if no Q is available you could try feeding the fish in display tank garlic or garlic extract you can get from GNC; & if your display tank does not have inverts in it, you could also treat w/ the hyposalinity method; combination w/ be most effective...just do a search here for HYPOSALINITY

 

[badkjb2]

im not sure the yellow tang has ich. its not really white spots on his face, and there is only a few, of these spots. he looks fine except he keeps going by the cleaner shrimp. like i said, he had it on his fins before, and the guy at the pet store said to leave him alone as long as he is eating. he will fight it off himself