Yellow Tang Twitches???

[isomorphic85]

so I have a new yellow tang in QT. Just noticed he occasionally will twitch a couple times for lack of better terminology... what is this about? is this normal ?

EDIT: Just noticed a slight cloudiness to the bottom of one of his eyes... sounds like some sort of parasite affecting gills and eye? would this be flukes or something else

 

[Dmorty217]

Either flukes or ich

 

[isomorphic85]

should I treat for flukes first? I don't see any white spots on the body.

 

[hogfanreefer]

You could do a freshwater dip. You would be able to see the flukes in the container after the dip. Then you would know for sure.

 

[whitrose02]

Freshwater dip +1.

 

[ca1ore]

It certainly may well be flukes. Depending upon the type of 'twitch', it could also be an aggression response. I have had tang do this in QT when seeing their reflection in the glass.

 

[Dmorty217]

It certainly may well be flukes. Depending upon the type of 'twitch', it could also be an aggression response. I have had tang do this in QT when seeing their reflection in the glass.

+1 this could also be it. They are distinctly different "twitches"

 

[spartanfish]

My yellow tang acted like this when I first got him and then got the cloudy eye, it was flukes, treated with Prazipro for a couple rounds and he is fine now. It makes it easier if you can get him into a QT tank to treat, but if not the Prazi is reef safe except for worms/dusters, the thing is you have to turn off your carbon and skimmer for the whole tx time which is a pain.

 

[isomorphic85]

dosed with prazi last night.. his eye is perfectly clear of the white/cloudiness that was there so that's great... however i've noticed now on his front fins some partially white/semi opaque spots .. would prazi make flukes visible to some degree or is this something else entirely?

I also have not seen him twitch at all today since dosing with the prazi... seems to have helped quite a bit in a short time which i'm shocked by... just worried about the front fins at this point as to what it may be

 

[hogfanreefer]

Are they all the same size? Pics would help. That almost sounds like lymphocytosis.

The flukes I have seen are small and were never visible to me on the fish. I got 15 off of one small fish with a FW dip and couldn't believe they weren't visible before treatment.

 

[nuxx]

Yeap I'd say the twitch and cloudy eye mostly lean towards flukes.