Hippo Tang issues

[jetwet1]

Hi everyone, first post and of course i'm looking for help.

I've had this tank for 3 years, nothing added in 9 months, I went away for 2 weeks, came back and found my hippo tang hiding behind a rock, his color is pale with some black spot and he is pretty much motionless.

I got him into an isolation tank and took some pictures, of course with the size limits on here I can't actually post them, but I am more than happy to email them to anyone to look at.

Thanks for any help and advice.

Dave

 

[AK707]

start a photo bucket acct...upload pics to photo bucket then copy the img url thing in this thread

 

[jetwet1]

Well, I got up to pee, as we tend to do in the middle of the night at my age, sadly I found this fish floating, so no advice really needed on that front.

However, I guess in my years of being in this hobby I have been lucky in never having a disease issue in one of my tanks.

My question now becomes, is there anything I should be doing to ensure the well being of the rest of the tank and fish.

The tank has a very small population for it's size (110 G and 40g sump) of one Angle, one clownfish, one lawnmower blenny and two Banggai cardinals along with the clean up crew.

There is also a lot of soft corals in the tank, so I can't dose it with copper from my understanding.

Any input would be helpful, thanks.

 

[AK707]

hopefully you got some good pictures and someone can diagnose the problem for you then you can go from there....

 

[Mishri]

black spots? anything in the tank that could have stung it? anemone perhaps?

 

[jetwet1]

black spots? anything in the tank that could have stung it? anemone perhaps?

There is no anemone in the tank, I went to my LFS, they said Tang turbellarian, I now have a six line wrasse in the tank which eat the flat worms, so fingers crossed this takes care of the problem.