Hi everyone. I'm new to Reef Central and fairly new to the hobby. I have a 220 gallon fish only marine tank in my office that has been set up and serviced by a local company here. It's been running for a little over a year now. After some major disease and treatment disasters resulting in the loss of numerous fish I have recently decided to involve myself in some personal research to see if I can keep the body count down in the future.
I originally posted some questions in the General Interest Forum under New to the Hobby with the same subject. Received some helpful suggestions including one to ask questions here. You can look for more details there regarding my fish and tank or I can retype them in this forum. (Sorry, not real computer savvy so I don't know if its possible to link the two threads...)
Questions:
1.) I have a very itchy Emperor Angel who otherwise seems fine other than his addiction to my cleaner shrimps. Should I be worried? Could this simply be behavioral? He does occasionally hemmorhage into his tail and left pectoral fin which I think is a result of the cleaner shrimp.
2.) I have a Regal Blue Tang who seems to have small white spots to his body. I think this may represent Marine Ich. He's been like this for a couple of months with no change to his feeding, color, behavior nor number of spots. Could this be something else? Again, do I have to worry? (There has been no change with treatment, so on the advice of the previous forum I've discontinued meds.)
3.) Finally, the majority of suggestions I received in the previous forum involved downsizing my tank population which is apparently too full. Is there a problem with the number of fish I have? Tank parameters have remained normal and the other fish seem fine to me. (As far as I can tell...)
If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear from you. Thank you.
I originally posted some questions in the General Interest Forum under New to the Hobby with the same subject. Received some helpful suggestions including one to ask questions here. You can look for more details there regarding my fish and tank or I can retype them in this forum. (Sorry, not real computer savvy so I don't know if its possible to link the two threads...)
Questions:
1.) I have a very itchy Emperor Angel who otherwise seems fine other than his addiction to my cleaner shrimps. Should I be worried? Could this simply be behavioral? He does occasionally hemmorhage into his tail and left pectoral fin which I think is a result of the cleaner shrimp.
2.) I have a Regal Blue Tang who seems to have small white spots to his body. I think this may represent Marine Ich. He's been like this for a couple of months with no change to his feeding, color, behavior nor number of spots. Could this be something else? Again, do I have to worry? (There has been no change with treatment, so on the advice of the previous forum I've discontinued meds.)
3.) Finally, the majority of suggestions I received in the previous forum involved downsizing my tank population which is apparently too full. Is there a problem with the number of fish I have? Tank parameters have remained normal and the other fish seem fine to me. (As far as I can tell...)
If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear from you. Thank you.
