Tang with Marine Ich or Black Ich

[jenn33426]

I think my tang has Ick it started scratching itself on rocks every blue moon couple weeks ago and now black spots!!!! RRRR Even with all the Preventive maintenance. Any way Tang is a Blue Hippo 2-3 inches maybe slightly bigger It's now in a 5 gallon QT tank water taken from display and new water on stand by. Tank has a good size HOB with great flow in the tank and some PVC everything was clean and temp is currently matching tank at 77-78 moving up slowly. I feed New life spectrum and a huge mix of frozen, almost everything gets a garlic dip. I just got Spectrum with thera A and still try to dip on top. My Question is should I fresh water dip? Or whats the next stop? Also if I do a dip how do I match the PH to the saltwater?

 

[Dmorty217]

Black ich is really worms so Prazipro will work for that. Usually caused by poor water quality. Scratching is signs of ich though and treatment would consist of TTM or cupramine or chloroquine phosphate. I would get a 20g long for the tang. Do you have any inverts in the DT? If so the only way to rid the DT of ich is to leave it fallow for 73 days

 

[ThRoewer]

Black ich is really worms so Prazipro will work for that. Usually caused by poor water quality. Scratching is signs of ich though and treatment would consist of TTM or cupramine or chloroquine phosphate. I would get a 20g long for the tang. Do you have any inverts in the DT? If so the only way to rid the DT of ich is to leave it fallow for 73 days

I don't think a turbellarian flatworms infection is in any way caused by poor water quality. Of course poor water quality will always make fish more susceptible for all kinds of infections, but turbellarian flatworms are one of those parasites that fish usually bring with them from the wild and not like ich pick up in one of the holding tanks they were in during transfer. Especially tangs and surgeon fish, and especially those from Hawaiʻi are affected.

Scratching is a symptom of this infection as well, so unless there are any other indicators for a Cryptocaryon infection I wouldn't automatically assume it is there.

 

[jenn33426]

Well the Display tank looks good no other fish including tangs show any signs of anything, however this hippo is the smallest tang, my orange shoulder is 8 or 9 inches and fine. I'm thinking I got it from a fish a added little while back as it was a wrasse and I really didn't think about it until to late.
SO I see terms I need to search on but haven't gotten a solid solution yet. I'm still waiting for more sunlight to popup and see how the hippo is doing, she was moving around in the tank and the temp went up to 84ish last night. I'm bring it back to 82 now.

 

[jenn33426]

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[ThRoewer]

Can you take a picture that shows the black spots?