yellow tang keeps slimming awfully

[tetratetra]

it can eat dried food and seaweed, but is just getting thinner and thinner. what's wrong?

 

[Steven Pro]

I would soak its food in garlic as a potential deworming agent. If you don't see improvement after a week or so, try Praziquantel instead of the garlic.

 

[tetratetra]

Thanks in the first place. But mine is in a reef tank, will it be safe if some garlic juice is present? (i keep only the mushrooms and button corals.) Many thanks again!

 

[hansonfam]

HI there

Garlic is perfectly safe in your tank. I soak all my food in it before i feed. Do it everyday and also i soak my nori for my tangs in it. Seachem makes garlic guard and i knoe that there is another brand out there as we'll. I do know some people just cruch there own garlic and soak the food in the juice. It may work and avoid having t move in to a hospital tank. And if you are not dosing vitamins then try that as we'll. Selcon is great and as you are soaking food with garlic add the selcon as we'll.

Good luck

Lisa

 

[tetratetra]

thanks again! i'll go get some garlic juice from Seachem. But what is Selcon? And any good brand(s) recommended for vitamins? Sorry for troubling you all.

 

[Steven Pro]

Selcon is a fatty acid supplement.

For vitamins, I like Vita-Chem by Boyd's.