jeffesaurusrex
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I got a new hippo tang, from an established tank with no additions for at least a year. Even after reading on here countless times and in several books about how bad of ich magnets tangs were, and why to quarantine all fish, I was an idiot and dropped it right into my DT.
Fast forward 4 days, she is now showing some tiny white specks on her black patches. They are so tiny they aren't visible anywhere else on the body. I put a link at the bottom to a pic of a powder blue with actual ich, but my hippo's looks nothing like that (except it's white specks). They are way tinier and only visible up close on my hippo tang.
So is this ich, and if it is what should I do? I have a QT running with a small black occelaris clownfish in it. Should I throw the blue tang in the QT and treat with copper now or is it too late? I've read from a few places that almost every hippo tang has ich, and it will flare up a little from time to time. I'm not sure about that info, but if that's the case will it still spread to my other fish?
No other fish shows any symptoms, but the watchman goby stayed in his cave all day which is unusual, as he normally perches outside as in my avatar pic. The hippo tang eats like a starved beast, like nothing I've ever seen so it seems healthy if it weren't for these spots.
http://www.reefland.com/forum/attac...12902d1262163059-update-tang-ich-dscn0006.jpg
This is NOT my tang - it's a google image search of a fish that is supposed to have ich but it doesn't really look like what my tang has on it.
Fast forward 4 days, she is now showing some tiny white specks on her black patches. They are so tiny they aren't visible anywhere else on the body. I put a link at the bottom to a pic of a powder blue with actual ich, but my hippo's looks nothing like that (except it's white specks). They are way tinier and only visible up close on my hippo tang.
So is this ich, and if it is what should I do? I have a QT running with a small black occelaris clownfish in it. Should I throw the blue tang in the QT and treat with copper now or is it too late? I've read from a few places that almost every hippo tang has ich, and it will flare up a little from time to time. I'm not sure about that info, but if that's the case will it still spread to my other fish?
No other fish shows any symptoms, but the watchman goby stayed in his cave all day which is unusual, as he normally perches outside as in my avatar pic. The hippo tang eats like a starved beast, like nothing I've ever seen so it seems healthy if it weren't for these spots.
http://www.reefland.com/forum/attac...12902d1262163059-update-tang-ich-dscn0006.jpg
This is NOT my tang - it's a google image search of a fish that is supposed to have ich but it doesn't really look like what my tang has on it.
