sick purple tang

[Bad Fish]

Please look at the photo and let me know what you guys think is wrong and what I can do to Thank you

 

[Zippy69]

Looks like ich to me. If he is eating and not bullied/stressed you may want to let him go through it to gain some self immunity. As far as I'm concerned once you got it in your system you got it. My fish had/have it and I let them go through it with the help of an inline uv sterilizer. They all recovered and so far no relapse 7months later, even with uv offline. Just my 2cents worth.

 

[Bad Fish]

The cause for concern is the fish stopped eating today. Looking to do a fresh water dip possibly

 

[Mark...]

Isolation in QT and copper is probably the way to go.

 

[Bad Fish]

Isolation in QT and copper is probably the way to go.

That is exactly what was done. Thanks for the response

 

[Mark...]

That is exactly what was done. Thanks for the response

Keep us posted with the results.

 

[Hawkeye]

Isolation in QT and copper is probably the way to go.

also the main display is infected as well. Any water/sand may contain the eggs of the disease. Only way to know for sure it is gone would be to remove all fish from display for a long period of time to break the cycle. Otherwise even if you cure the tang in Qt, putting it back in the display could result in it re-acquiring ich.

what other fish are in the main display?

 

[redfishbluefish]

also the main display is infected as well. Any water/sand may contain the eggs of the disease. Only way to know for sure it is gone would be to remove all fish from display for a long period of time to break the cycle. Otherwise even if you cure the tang in Qt, putting it back in the display could result in it re-acquiring ich.

what other fish are in the main display?

Phil, have to believe he has all fish in the hospital tank while the DT sits fallow for six plus weeks.

 

[MadReefer]

You can use Rid-Ich in the display as I have done this. The corals will freak out so be prepared to do many water changes if you go this route. Even in fish only tanks you must change the water between dosages.

 

[Bad Fish]

You can use Rid-Ich in the display as I have done this. The corals will freak out so be prepared to do many water changes if you go this route. Even in fish only tanks you must change the water between dosages.

Yes all the fish are out of the DT and its a fairly new tank so the corals in there can be removed or left alone and there isnt any sand

 

[Bad Fish]

Put copper in the qt tank 1 fish is missing the Tang looks stressed and still won't eat but we will see over the next few days

 

[Bad Fish]

Unfortunately the Fish died

 

[Hockeynut]

That's to bad. You know you take a calculated risk removing a tang with ich and putting them in qt I find that it stresses them out even more and most times IMO it makes things worse. I have had similar situations and tried both ways and have had better results with letting it run it's course. As far as keeping ich out of your system I believe this is nearly impossible even if you could for a while eventually it would get in there somehow. I know I have it in my system but my fish seem to be Unaffected. A healthy fish should be able to fight it off so long is that fish is not stressed. Good luck

 

[Bad Fish]

I agree and next time that is what will be done