Kole tang... White spot on head
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Just to follow up on this, it's been about 9 days and he seems to be doing better. There's still a lighter colored spot on his head, but it definitely seems to be healing. Hopefully in a few more days it'll be gone.
I saw one other post that suggested that it might be a vitamin deficiency and that's quite possible because at the time this happened I had been feeding Mysis shrimp almost exclusively. He was eating them, but in retrospect they're probably not a great diet for a Kole Tang. He spent a lot of time nipping at algae on the glass and rocks, but he still may not have been getting enough.
After I posted this I ran out and got some nori and a clip and I've been feeding Nori soaked in Selco boost. It took him a day or two before he decided that the nori was food, but he's been grazing on it for a solid week now.
The first time I put it in my serpant star ran from one side of the tank to the other, climbed up the live rock and a purple sea fan and then grabbed onto the nori and sat there and ate for a while. I had no idea that guy could move so fast. After the first day or two he's mostly been ignoring it now. Guess he decided that it's not worth climbing for
I saw one other post that suggested that it might be a vitamin deficiency and that's quite possible because at the time this happened I had been feeding Mysis shrimp almost exclusively. He was eating them, but in retrospect they're probably not a great diet for a Kole Tang. He spent a lot of time nipping at algae on the glass and rocks, but he still may not have been getting enough.
After I posted this I ran out and got some nori and a clip and I've been feeding Nori soaked in Selco boost. It took him a day or two before he decided that the nori was food, but he's been grazing on it for a solid week now.
The first time I put it in my serpant star ran from one side of the tank to the other, climbed up the live rock and a purple sea fan and then grabbed onto the nori and sat there and ate for a while. I had no idea that guy could move so fast. After the first day or two he's mostly been ignoring it now. Guess he decided that it's not worth climbing for
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Thanks Julie, hopefully I'll be less worried next time I see something like that then. This is a new fish for me and it happened shortly after he was added to the DT, so I was definitely a bit concerned.
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