Odd white things on tang, NOT ich

[duastina]

Please help! I've done hours of research to try to find out what these white things on my tang are, I'll try to get a pic but he swims so fast its hard to get a clear shot. The white things are about 2mm in size and there are about 2-3, he rubs on sand and wants my hermits to clean him, silly thing, I bought a cleaner goby who is scared of him, my cleaner shrimp died the day after I got him, he eats great, breathing fine, swims fine, no other fish has them, not sure what it is or how to treat. He has a patch which looks like its missing scales prob from rubbing that side on sand. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[WI reefer55]

sounds like my tang has the same thing..

did you by chance get him from the feed bag?

I got a CB blue hippo from them and what you seaid is the best way to describe it. I dont think its ich or flukes..

 

[duastina]

I got him from Aquatics about a month ago, he had the odd patch on his side i thought it was just a scrape, but then he got 1 white thing, then it was gone for a bit then he got another one, now he has 3, but they don't appear to really bother him other than the scraping and expecting the hermits to clean him... he's a mata tang. From my research the closest thing is anchor worms but they are freshwater only. I think I'm going to try one of the reef safe ich treatments to see if they work and get another cleaner shrimp. the one I got that died right away had been in the store for only 2 days, prob real stressed still.

 

[duastina]

hey do you of anywhere other that fish place on 76th st that has cleaner shrimp? they seem to be in short supply lately

 

[matt frizz]

Mine had 2 of those as well. I watched my tank at night and the tang was letting the skunk cleaner clean him off and in the morning they were gone.

 

[duastina]

Grrr now he has pop eye, got some melafix treating that for now...

 

[juicesay]

Try Prazipro, sounds like it has flukes. Or a high magnitude of Ich.

 

[Ohiomom]

Look up lymphocytis..might be it from what you describe..

 

[duastina]

That's it!! and the pop eye is just a secondary infection, and explains why the other 2 fish in the tank don't have it, they are not related! Thank you I spent endless hours researching with no luck! No wonder I never concidered a virus

 

[ZurichOne95]

My Yellow started getting like sand spots on him. Talked to my lfs, the recommended Seachem FOCUS, and MEtronightazol or something like that. Worked in a couple days

 

[WI reefer55]

other than hoffers on 76th no..

If you have not been to the feed bag check it out

Joe is great there and its the only place i shop.

got my tang for $47 there very cheap too =)