Last Friday I bought a yellow tang and put it in my QT system. The QT system is a 20g long tank with a Marineland HOB filter rated for 30g. Tank was setup with water a week before buying the fish. The filters were set in my new 125g DT that has had fish in for 4 weeks and has been active for 9 weeks.
The yellow tang was fine the first 5 days I had it at home. I was doing a 20% water change daily on the tank since I knew it was not cycled. I noticed that the left eye was getting puffy and cloudy. I started to to take a little more water out on the changes since I noticed it but never really anything drastically different. I am trying not to take fast measures and do things slow. The QT tank is in an area that does not get much traffic in front as it is just me in the house. There is no light on the tank.
Tonight I noticed that the eye was much bigger and worse. I have done a 50% water change and have new water mixing up tonight for tomorrow. I have noticed that the ammonia according to my API test kit was up to .25 ppm which is bad news! Since the 50% water change it is reading 0.
Should I continue doing larger daily water changes and see if it gets better? Will the fish lose it's eye? Should I treat with anything?
The fish has been eating like a pig since I got it. Feeding a combo of 2 different flakes as well as nori every day.
The yellow tang was fine the first 5 days I had it at home. I was doing a 20% water change daily on the tank since I knew it was not cycled. I noticed that the left eye was getting puffy and cloudy. I started to to take a little more water out on the changes since I noticed it but never really anything drastically different. I am trying not to take fast measures and do things slow. The QT tank is in an area that does not get much traffic in front as it is just me in the house. There is no light on the tank.
Tonight I noticed that the eye was much bigger and worse. I have done a 50% water change and have new water mixing up tonight for tomorrow. I have noticed that the ammonia according to my API test kit was up to .25 ppm which is bad news! Since the 50% water change it is reading 0.
Should I continue doing larger daily water changes and see if it gets better? Will the fish lose it's eye? Should I treat with anything?
The fish has been eating like a pig since I got it. Feeding a combo of 2 different flakes as well as nori every day.