Baby Tang Stressed(?)

[Oracion]

My baby Hippo Tang has been staying at the bottom of my tank for a while. She's breathing pretty hard. How do you think I can make her less stressed?

 

[Sk8r]

Is this a quarantine tank? A hard-breathing fish could have a) oxygen-poor water in the tank b) ich in the gills c) flukes in the gills.
In either b) or c) this fish should be in a hospital tank, preferably with hypo, in my opinion. Couldn't hurt and might help.

 

[Oracion]

She actually has been going with ich. She seems near death and my tank got polluted by a dead anemone. she's in my neighbor's sump right now. We'll see what happens in the morning

 

[Sk8r]

Lower her salinity to 1.009 [in a dedicated tank] over the next 48 hours and see if that will help her, poor thing. If you have got anything you can put her in...or if it's a small tank, just remove your live rock and sand to buckets and put her in the bare tank until you can do more toward getting a quarantine/hospital tank.

Nems are very dangerous in a tank, and shouldn't be added until the tank is about a year old. I'm now worried about your neighbor: ich is a parasite that falls from the fish to the sandbed, and will lodge cysts in the sand, rock, and filter medium, that will hatch into hundreds of ich swimmers and head for other fish.