my yellow tang has white spots on it help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bigmatt1992

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ok i really and concernd with this one my tang has white looken hairs on him idk what to call them but there speck of white on him you cant see them unless you go rite up on the tank what is this im realy concerned hes acting fine. is it a parasite or ich or what
 
are you concerned that he's acting fine, or are you concerned even though he's acting fine?
sorry just confuesed me for a secound. as far as the little hairs, I don't know what they could be maybe a type of fungus? Ick is usually more like poka-dots or salt. If you have a quarintine tank i'd put him in there and treet him with an anti-funga/ich remover and see what happens. Just my suggestion, maybe somebodyelse will have a more specific diognostic.
 
it looks like sand on him i think it might be ich hes acting fine but the sand looken stuff on him concerns me and my bleeny has it on him to idk what it is if someone can help me figure this out and no i dont have a quarintine tank
 
if it looks like white tiny chunks attached to the fish, i'd say ich. if it just looks like a white coloring to the body of the fish IDK.

my understanding is that tangs can get stressed pretty easily and are a breeding ground for ich if not properly tended to...one of the major reasons i've stayed away from tangs.

if you can post a pic that'd be much more helpful
 
I would agree with the others sounds like ich. My guess for the cause would be the new clown.. In my experience, any new fish that has not been held in quarinitine by you, for observation is suspect when it comes to an ich outbreak.
 
Could be ich, but make sure it is not just sand. I get it on my fish from my goby when he sifts the sand and it starts to float in the water column.
 
Getting ich on a yellow is not a good sign, they are one of the hardiest tang out there, and if they have ich then its a sure fire sign that you need to stop adding fish for at least 30 days after all fish in the tank have NO signs of ich. Might take 2+ months. But if you dont have a quarantine and your tank has inverts, this is what you will have to do.

Go to the Proline forum and look at the top of the page, there is some German medication that is said to be reef safe.
 
If it is a white stripe down the side and a spot in front of the tail on both sides then it is normal. Mood swings, stress level things of this nature can change the appearance of these lines and spots.
 
You said your blenny has ich? Never saw that....

How long did you cycle your tank? Are you using tap water for top off? Do you have enough Live Rock?? (1 lb per gallon is a good start)

There are alot of things to get a handle on, then we can help you more.
 
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You said your blenny has ich? Never saw that....

How long did you cycle your tank? Are you using tap water for top off? Do you have enough Live Rock?? (1 lb per gallon is a good start)

There are alot of things to get a handle on, then we can help you more.

When I first started my 180, my Bicolor Blenny had ich on and off. I also had a Red Sea Blenny that had ich and actually died from it.
 
ich will not cler itself from the tank. it will just not go away. It goes in cycles and gets stronger and stronger with each cycle unluss you remove all of the hosts (fish) from the system. There have been no proven reef safe remidies for ich. I have tried alot and when i had an outbreak, the only solotion was to get all of the fish out fo the display for 6 weeks. The fish were in hyposalinity for that same pereiod. Look up hyposalinity treatment for some more info.
 
I've killed enough livestock to know (i'm talking complete wipe outs of hundreds of $$ in livestock); quarantine every fish that goes into your tank. If this is ich, you're only way out of this is to pull all your vertebrate livestock, put them in quarantine, treat with copper or hypo-salinity (I prefer copper) for 3 weeks. In that time, the lack of fish in your display will allow the ich to die off, and then you can re-add your fish.

Any new fish you add should be quarantined for 3 weeks before addition to the display, and in my opinion you should treat every single fish you quarantine with copper. It's the only 100% way to be sure you have an ich free tank.

-J
 
ok i was going to go out and buy ich treatment but it sounds like i will have to take out all my inverts to do so or can i dose it while there still in there i dont have a secound take to do this in
 
Dude, DO NOT treat the ich in your display. You will destroy all of your liverock, and never be able to have inverts in that tank (at least with that rock) again. Copper treatments embed themselves in the rock, and your rock will forever leach copper back into the tank. Copper also embeds itself in teh silicone (I've heard) but I am unsure if there would be enough embedded copper in silicone to do much damage. Quarantine tanks should be bare bottom, with plastic (such as PVC) decoration/hiding places. Bio filtration can be provided by a simple sponge filter or a HOB with carbon removed.

-J
 
Going to disagree with the copper comment to a point. It definitely doesn't get in the seals, since my current frag tank was a QT tank at one point. Also, eventually, the rock will be safe again. My mother's 90 gallon softy reef was at one point a fish only, and treated with copper several times. The reef is thriving now, with inverts and everything, so copper leeching isn't enough to destroy the tank. She did wait 3 years and run a ton of carbon and chemi-pure in the tank to get it to the point where it was no longer dangerous.

That said, its definitely NOT a good idea to add copper to your system. Even buying a 10 gallon tank, and doing weekly or daily water changes with copper and new salt water would be better than ruining your system. As stated, all inverts (including coral) will die. Sorry about your tough situation man, but as stated, I feel like several people have been trying to encourage you to slow down, and hopefully this will be a lesson learned to take things slow.

They do make (did make) ich treatments like Green-X that have no copper treatment. Burton's also sells an organic one, that claims to be good for treating ich, and I've also heard that garlic can help. I've tried all of them, and had some results with minor ich outbreaks, but once it gets kinda bad, copper is the only method I've used that's been effective.
 
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