Yellow Tang Problem

[maddest]

Hello everyone, I

Need some help here. I

Just bought a Yello Tang:happy: and he has been doing good until yesterday night:happy: . Now it is swimming and then he starts like going crazy or like moving his body, trying to get something away from him. Like moving his body or shacking.:jumping: I'm planning on buying:notsure: a Neon Goby and Cleaner Shrimp:happy: probably it has some parasites that they could both eat from the yellow tang:cheer: . Could that work?:nervous: . Please write me back here, or if you can it would be better if you write me to my email with subject, Yellow Tang...
Thank You,
Amando Bahena JR
DaMaDdEsTDoG@aol.com

 

[beth]

Can you please post a picture of the yellow tank? I don't see any fish in that tank. Details needed.

 

[floorguy]

Me personally suggest getting at least 3 scarlet cleaner shrimp when i got my yellow it got ich 2 weeks later, so i went and got 3 cleaner shrimp they picked all the ich off in 2 weeks time healthy as can be.

 

[maddest]

Hello, I just bought a cleaner shrimp to see if it does anything to the Yellow tang, I found like some dark little tiny spots, and I
m guessing those are parasites that cleaner shrimps or neon gobies eat, or cleaner wrase. I hope my Tang gets better. I'll post a reply later on on how it is doing.

 

[beth]

Those black dots are likely black ich and they need to be treated with formalin bathes [procedure is detailed in the FAQ Thread at the top of forum].
Can you post a picture of your tang?

 

[maddest]

Hi, everyone:notsure:

My Cleaner shrimp that I bught just died today morning. I don't know what was wrong. I got my salanity at 20, could it be that. Another thing that I'm thinking is that I have bought some cleaner shrimps from that store too before and have died. I bought two from some other side and they have been well until one of my pistol shrimps killed them or the emerald crab since they never ate what I gave them because they where always hidding. I say that because they used to just dissapeared, and this one that I bought was dead. I don't havethe crab or pistol shrimp anymore. But my peppermint shrimp that I bought too is still alive and the hermit crabs. Yes I would try to get a photo on tuesday or the yellow tang.

 

[beth]

20? What are you using to measure salinity?

 

[ocellaris_keeper]

What is a salinity level of 20? do you mean 1.020?

 

[maddest]

Yeah

 

[dskidmore]

1.020 is a specific gravity reading. We need the temperature as well to derive salinity, the number that actually matters.

 

[beth]

That salinity is too low for inverts, especially if the invert was acclimated from a higher salinity tank to your low salinity tank.
What are you using to measure salinity?

 

[andrewt]

what's a good salinity level for inverts to live in?

 

[beth]

Using a precise instrument to measure, such as a refractometer, it should be around 1.024-.025.
Don't use swing arm hydrometers. They are so off the mark that they are a hazard, in my opinion.