Ich?

[wsureefer]

Does this look like ich on my kole tang?

 

[wsureefer]

Does this look like ich on my kole tang?

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Hopefully this picture is better.

 

[emcmilla]

Still isn't clear enough to tell

 

[wsureefer]

I am worried about the small white spot on the tail fin.

 

[snorvich]

When was the fish acquired? Behavior? Describe the spot on the tail.

 

[wsureefer]

When was the fish acquired? Behavior? Describe the spot on the tail.

The fish was acquired approximately a month to a month in a half ago. Started to do TTM with him, on day 5 of TTM fish was extremely stressed so I stop TTM and put him in my cycled QT. Spent another week and a half in QT did a prazi treatment, fish never really ate in QT, which I read was pretty common for a kole tang. The fish started pick at algae in the QT tank, I took him out of QT early because I was having a hard time getting him to eat, he looked fine and didn't show any signs of being sick. The spot on his tail popped a couple days ago, he is swimming around and picking at the rock constantly. He has a spot on the tail and also a dorsal fin spot just showed up yesterday. It almost looks like a grain of sand or a bubble.

 

[x2boarder]

Hard to tell from the photo, but I have had my fair share of ick in my day to say if it were my fish I would be worried. Is he still in QT?

 

[wsureefer]

No, the fish has been in the DT for about 2 weeks or so.

 

[x2boarder]

Have the spots gone away now?

 

[wsureefer]

No they have not, I'll try and get a better picture today.

 

[wsureefer]

Hopefully this pic is clearer.

 

[3FordFamily]

Doesn't look too horrible in your photo... I don't see ich definitively..

 

[wsureefer]

Any idea what it might be? Would you suggest I pull him and my clown and TTM them as a precaution?

 

[Deinonych]

Looks like lymphocystis to me. It is self-limited with good diet and water quality.

 

[ThRoewer]

It isn't ich if it stays that long.
The roundish spot on the edge of his dorsal fin could be lymphocystis.
The stringy looking spot on its caudal fin could be also lymphocystis or a crustacean (Lernaeascus).

BTW: is this fish still in a QT or is that your display tank. If it is the latter it looks way too sterile.

 

[wsureefer]

The fish is in my DT, I don't know if it looks to sterile because the tank was started with dry rock and dry sand. Tank has only been cycled since Dec 13, 2014. All my water parameters test good, and the few coral I have in there so far are growing.

Water Parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: Between 5 and 10, API test is hard to read for me.
Ph: 8.18
Calc: 460
Alk: 8.9
Mag: 1440

 

[x2boarder]

I don't for sure see Ich in that pic. Is he eating nori daily?

 

[wsureefer]

He wouldn't eat Nori, just picked at the rock all day. He started to eat Reef Frenzy, but yesterday he died unexpectedly.

 

[snorvich]

It isn't ich if it stays that long.
The roundish spot on the edge of his dorsal fin could be lymphocystis.
The stringy looking spot on its caudal fin could be also lymphocystis or a crustacean (Lernaeascus).

BTW: is this fish still in a QT or is that your display tank. If it is the latter it looks way too sterile.

Yes, I suspect the absence of algae in the tank was the result of the fish passing away. (I added the bolding) Tanks for tangs should be mature and of appropriate size to allow constant grazing.