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All, I received my small yellow tang from Biota on Thursday, per their recommendation only temp acclimated and dropped the tang into the tank as to avoid an ammonia spike in the shipping water. Salinity was for the most part spot on hovering around 1.025 in their bag and I keep my tank at 1.025. The tang did come with some top fin damage but I wasn't too concerned it looked like some aggression from their holding tank and nothing serious.
Kept the lights off for an hour as well to allow it to adjust. It went straight into hiding in one of the caves. Did not take to food.
The next day (Friday) it was out swimming a bit but quickly went back to its cave and did not come out. I tried to feet masstick since that's what Biota recommended but it did not care to even try it. I figured it maybe needs a bit more time to adjust to the new environment so I left it alone.
Saturday morning it looked the same, just swimming around in it's cave, tried some Nori but it did not care for it at all. That evening I get home from an event to find it sideways unable to swim breathing very heavily. Throughout this whole time I did not see it flashing or swimming up against current (looking for hints of velvet). I also couldn't see anything visually wrong on it's body.
I did take a snap shot of it after removal of tank and there are red blotches near it's head and some areas. Some quick research brought up possible bacterial infection but i'm unsure.
My research also brought me to this thread Humble.Fish where another reefer may have ID their Biota tang coming with velvet but it's not clear.
As of now my other tank inhabitants, one clownfish and one royal gramma show no signs of distress, visual or behavioral issues.
Can anyone help ID the issue? Here's the pic of my YT. I contacted Biota on Saturday but I don't expect to hear anything until at least Monday since I assume they are closed over the weekend.
Tank params:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10ppm
Alk: 8
Calcium: 450 to 500 (test kit isn't very accurate)
PH: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 79F
No chemical filtration, just protein skimmer
Kept the lights off for an hour as well to allow it to adjust. It went straight into hiding in one of the caves. Did not take to food.
The next day (Friday) it was out swimming a bit but quickly went back to its cave and did not come out. I tried to feet masstick since that's what Biota recommended but it did not care to even try it. I figured it maybe needs a bit more time to adjust to the new environment so I left it alone.
Saturday morning it looked the same, just swimming around in it's cave, tried some Nori but it did not care for it at all. That evening I get home from an event to find it sideways unable to swim breathing very heavily. Throughout this whole time I did not see it flashing or swimming up against current (looking for hints of velvet). I also couldn't see anything visually wrong on it's body.
I did take a snap shot of it after removal of tank and there are red blotches near it's head and some areas. Some quick research brought up possible bacterial infection but i'm unsure.
My research also brought me to this thread Humble.Fish where another reefer may have ID their Biota tang coming with velvet but it's not clear.
As of now my other tank inhabitants, one clownfish and one royal gramma show no signs of distress, visual or behavioral issues.
Can anyone help ID the issue? Here's the pic of my YT. I contacted Biota on Saturday but I don't expect to hear anything until at least Monday since I assume they are closed over the weekend.
Tank params:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10ppm
Alk: 8
Calcium: 450 to 500 (test kit isn't very accurate)
PH: 8.0
Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 79F
No chemical filtration, just protein skimmer