Spots this morning but now they are gone...

[Calmwaters]

This will be a long post but please help if you can. I bought a scopas tang yesterday and there were no spots on it at all and it was swimming around healthy and happy this morning I noticed some spots and planned on removing all the fish to another tank and treating for ick. I know I should have QT'd but it came from my small LFS that I have never gotten sick fish from in over 10 years. Anyways I get home from church and the spots are gone. This morning it was resting beside a bubbler I have in the tank so maybe the spots were just tiny air bubbles? I do have a neon cleaner goby as well that I have seen cleaning the tang a bit since I got home. What would you do? Remove fish and treat or wait to see if spots come back? Tanks a little cloudy because i had to remove rocks to get a picture the only spot I see now is the tail blade.

 

[threebuoys]

Can't see anything in the photo. At this point, wait and see. If the spots were ich, they may have dropped off but will return as the life cycle progresses. If they do return, you will need to treat all fish in a QT and allow the DT to remain fallow for 6 - 8 weeks. But, could have been bubbles or sand. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[vetteguy53081]

This will be a long post but please help if you can. I bought a scopas tang yesterday and there were no spots on it at all and it was swimming around healthy and happy this morning I noticed some spots and planned on removing all the fish to another tank and treating for ick. I know I should have QT'd but it came from my small LFS that I have never gotten sick fish from in over 10 years. Anyways I get home from church and the spots are gone. This morning it was resting beside a bubbler I have in the tank so maybe the spots were just tiny air bubbles? I do have a neon cleaner goby as well that I have seen cleaning the tang a bit since I got home. What would you do? Remove fish and treat or wait to see if spots come back? Tanks a little cloudy because i had to remove rocks to get a picture the only spot I see now is the tail blade.

One of two things:
It’s either sand grains or debris that got on its body Or parasite that has fallen off to reproduce and will be back in numbers.
Fish also looks thin.
If you haven’t quarantined, now may be a good time. If you do, with risk of exposure, treat them all in separate tank with coppersafe at 2.25 monitored with a reliable copper test kit and also monitor ammonia levels also with a reliable test kit

 

[fishguy242]

.