Hi everyone, I have an Achilles tang that is rubbing on the pvc tubes in my 55 quarantine but I can’t see anything on him. I’ve had him with a large purple tang and 2 purple firefish in a qt running copper power for almost 2 weeks. I bought them from my lfs the day they came in before going into their tanks at the store at a discount for taking the risk of buying a sick fish. Was willing to take the risk because I have a good size qt ready to go. I put them in day one with copper at .95 ppm (Hannah checker) and raised it to 2.5 over a week. The tangs looked a little rough and skinny initially but never saw signs of ich, flukes or any scratching and as soon as they started eating after a day or so their colors started looking good and the started fattening up and looking healthy. Currently all 4 fish have great appetites being fed some seaweed early in the day and frozen spirulina brine shrimp with seaweed extreme pellets soaked in vitachem with a scoop of metroplex and focus in the evening since day one. I noticed the Achilles started rubbing just yesterday after close to 2 weeks with no signs of anything and he’s the only one in the tank that’s flashing.
ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Temp 80
Salinity about 31 ppt
Copper 2.52 checked this morning
I already added some prazipro yesterday just in case of flukes, I know it’s not recommended with copper but I have a lot of aeration and water movement plus plenty of pretreated water ready to go if I need to do water changes. For the first half of today I saw no rubbing at all, I left for a few hours and when I returned he was rubbing again. I’m confused at this point. He doesn’t consistently rub but it definitely doesn’t seem like normal behavior and enough to be concerned. Could he possibly be sensitive to copper? Since I’m not seeing this behavior in the other tang that’s the only thing I can think of other than flukes. I’ll post some pictures, they’re not the best cuz he swims so fast, and some of the pictures makes it look like there are some white dots but it’s just bubbles in the water, id appreciate any input or advice. Thank you
ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Temp 80
Salinity about 31 ppt
Copper 2.52 checked this morning
I already added some prazipro yesterday just in case of flukes, I know it’s not recommended with copper but I have a lot of aeration and water movement plus plenty of pretreated water ready to go if I need to do water changes. For the first half of today I saw no rubbing at all, I left for a few hours and when I returned he was rubbing again. I’m confused at this point. He doesn’t consistently rub but it definitely doesn’t seem like normal behavior and enough to be concerned. Could he possibly be sensitive to copper? Since I’m not seeing this behavior in the other tang that’s the only thing I can think of other than flukes. I’ll post some pictures, they’re not the best cuz he swims so fast, and some of the pictures makes it look like there are some white dots but it’s just bubbles in the water, id appreciate any input or advice. Thank you