White Stuff On Regal Tang

[samdaman]

Hi I turned On My Lights today and I saw My tang is covered in white stuff, does not look like ich, but there's are like white things attached... Ill post a pic when possible, There are those little white things on the wall of my tank also, not sure if they are the same ones? Best description I can give any ideas? :/ I have some clowns and they do not have it... He swims fine and eats good.Maybe pods?

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

I've seen this with my fiji rabbitfish when he is shedding his slime coat and it seems to me it is fish slime coat mixed with detritus. I know my old hippo tang used to sleep wedged in the rocks and would sometimes be covered in stuff when he woke up in the morning. Evertime my fish have looked like this it was temporary and seemed to be related to their slime coat rather than some disease pathogen.

 

[samdaman]

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

How is your fish doing? Is the white stuff still there of does he look better.

 

[samdaman]

I put in some Lifeguard in, and It seemed to cleared up almost completely, There just Seems to be like a sore on the side of the bottom lip. I will try and get a picture.

 

[samdaman]

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Hmmmm, not sure I've seen anything exactly like that. Maybe a bacterial infection.