Yellow tang, speckles on fins...?

[cr22]

I added a new yellow tang to my 75g Friday...I didn't qt. Bad I know. But he's eating, parameters are fine. Is it ich?

 

[Amazon4]

Good chance that it is. Got a pic? Or perhaps search for pic of fish with ich and see if they look like your guy.

 

[cr22]

Where do you suggest I start in treating it?

 

[nureefer2008]

do u have any invertebrate in your 75g tank? If so, do not treat it with copper. If this is a fish only tank, then I would treat it with either hypo or copper to rid of the parasite.

 

[cr22]

Yes inverts and corals

 

[petsarenice]

A lot of times if you just got the fish, keeping the water clean and giving the fish some vitamin supplements, will fix the problem. Sometimes with tangs it is good to let them fight it off themselves. Just make sure it doesn't get out of control.

 

[paulamrein]

I disagree with petsarenice. In order to ensure that your fish do not get a repeat infestation. (which are usually always worse) ALL fish needs to be quarantined, it's a hassle, but parasites don't go away, and it's hit or miss whether the fish will get the upper hand. Sure, there's a good chance that it will develop some immunity from the infestation, but the parasite will continue to thrive in the tank and with the parasites producing 300-400 clones per cyst per cycle you can have an epidemic in a matter of a few months. It's a gamble I personally wouldn't want to take. But, some people have had success with the dump and pray method.

 

[nsinger]

So what do you think of this scenario? I have a 90 gal tank with dead coral and 2 pieces of LR. Three months ago there was a bad outbreak of ich and 2 of my 6 fish died. I used something called ich attack for 4 weeks and now the fish are fine with no spots. Eventually I want to introduce more fish. Would you treat the whole tank with hypo for 6 weeks to presumably rid the tank of ich so I could more safely introduce fish later?

 

[paulamrein]

Absolutely, The important thing I want to mention is that it absolutely needs to be in a separate tank from where your rock, sand, and inverts are at. A Quarantine tank is barebottom, and as basic as they come. It has to be that way for treatments to work efficiently. I am not going to lie to you. ALL EFFECTIVE treatments regardless of what they are by design, kill. Treatments are simply kill the simple parasites QUICKER than they do the fish. So, that goes 2 fold. You first want to take the fish away from the things that you don't want to kill. And you want to keep the things that kill away from where you want the live stuff to go. You treat a main system first off, you kill your beneficial bacterium secondly, there is no place for the fish to go after treatment is over. You can try and take the chemicals out with carbon or water changes but alot of chemicals stay in your tank a very long time.
And Quarantine is taken from the french meaning 40 days. That is why the 6 weeks is used.

 

[cr22]

All the spots are gone, does ich do that?

 

[Steven Pro]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12635907#post12635907 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cr22
All the spots are gone, does ich do that?

Yes, it drops off to reproduce.

 

[cr22]

He doesn't have any spots right now, but he's twitching sometimes?

 

[paulamrein]

That means they are in his gills. It will be at least once to twice a month you will be dealing with this problem in which at any time during those battles fish can be lost. Most of the times it's secondary infections that actually do the fish in. If you continue to go this route prepare to treat ich AND bacterial infections later. NOT in the display tank though.