Yellow tang with black spots

[mccanei]

My fish ahd ick so I treated with hyposalinity. During that time my Yellow Tang developed a number of black spots about the size of ick. I treated with melafix for three days to help relieve stress. I additionally treated tank with stop ick. Ick subsided, but Yellow tan still has black spots, now a week and a half. Salinity is still low, I am slowing rasing it. 1.013. I am not sure what to do. Is it a dietary issue? I feed twice daily herbivore and mysis foods? The

 

[mavgi]

Originally Posted by mccanei
My fish ahd ick so I treated with hyposalinity. During that time my Yellow Tang developed a number of black spots about the size of ick. I treated with melafix for three days to help relieve stress. I additionally treated tank with stop ick. Ick subsided, but Yellow tan still has black spots, now a week and a half. Salinity is still low, I am slowing rasing it. 1.013. I am not sure what to do. Is it a dietary issue? I feed twice daily herbivore and mysis foods? The
if you sure that your YT have a black spot on him so it's a black ick and hypo or melafix will not fix it you need to treat him with formalin bath . click on this link on post no 7 you going to see the medication for that treatment.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/127007/faqs-fish-diseases-treatments-quarantine-health-info

 

[beth]

It sounds like black ich. Take a look at the pictures of fish with black ich in the Diseased Fish thread to see if you can identify the problem. The treatment for black ich is formalin bathes, which is described in the FAQ Thread.