What does my Hippo have?
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djkms
Fish Freak
Also, by the video I am not convinced its "ich" either. I have seen blue tangs in established reefs with spots like this and IMO they are irritated scales. I always catch blue tangs especially wedging themselves between rocks and hiding out in SPS colonies. Not a expert by an stretch of the imagination but spots like this come and go all the time with the hippo tangs I observe (I have a buddy who owns a Aquarium maintenance company).
DanK13
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MrTuskfish, I keep my reading current
Sweet book. I have a similar one but i didn't buy it...my dad did
You are correct though. Ichthyophthirius and Cryptocaryon are two entirely different organisms. Main reason is that Ich will not survive in flashed saltwater and vice versa with crypto. Not only that though they are both in the Phylum Ciliophora they are in two entirely different Classes.
They were once called the same thing but that was before fire was discovered and investigation into lifecycles was taking place.
Paul B
Premium Member
Yes, kind of. But we also have the word ichthyophonus. Try pronouncong both of them fast 3 times. As I said we used to call everything ich. But ichthyophonus is caused by an internal fungus. You would think they would call these things different sounding names like, "small white spot disease", "big white spot disease", "fungus looking disease" or at least something pronouncable. I know it is all Latin and I also know that no one speaks Latin anymore and if they ever did, they must not have been in too many spelling Bees.
Yes it was and there is the problem. All of a sudden they changed the names of these diseases and us people who hung out with Neanderthals got old and can't get new names into our heads.
But us old Geezers can cure it in a day no matter what we call it. :smokin:
Originally it was called "Coral fish disease", then it was called "White spot disease".
In that book I pictured above there is 10 full pages on just treating oodinium with copper. oodinium at that time was about the only paracite, or at least we called everything either oodinium or ich, they were interchangable.:hmm4:
DanK13, Ilike your signature
On that type of tang I've seen marine white spot before and I feel it looks more succinct. In some species that mucus up around the ciliate parasites (like puffers and clowns) the lesions look larger and "fluffier" in my opinion. Specifically on the hepatus tangs, I've treated what looks like your fishes problem with gram negative spectrum antibiotics to much success. I think I did 500mg kanamycin to 20g qt tank once a day with water changes every other day.
