Ich or something worse

[Neilie]

New yellow tang my son brought it home for me for Father’s Day. Noticed these dots on his body just today. Wondering if it’s ich or something else. Eats well and swims fine, so far. Hope the pictures shows them enough to diagnose.

 

[strich]

I recently went through hypo to treat ich. I was lucky that my tank didn't have much coral in it so I did it in the main tank with the 11 fish.
It would seem very challenging to keep a small tank worth such a large amount of fish alive for the process.

I'll say this: initially I chose to try a management strategy - I bought a 50w uv, fed heavy, etc. One of my blue tangs with started turning for the worse and it would seem he was a few days away from bring overcome and killed. I activated the hypo protocol, which takes a few days to pull down to the level you need to destroy ich. However it didn't take as long to start suppressing it and he recovered quickly enough.
I guess my point is - try management if you like, but be ready to go into treatment as soon as they start taking a turn.

 

[Neilie]

I recently went through hypo to treat ich. I was lucky that my tank didn't have much coral in it so I did it in the main tank with the 11 fish.
It would seem very challenging to keep a small tank worth such a large amount of fish alive for the process.

I'll say this: initially I chose to try a management strategy - I bought a 50w uv, fed heavy, etc. One of my blue tangs with started turning for the worse and it would seem he was a few days away from bring overcome and killed. I activated the hypo protocol, which takes a few days to pull down to the level you need to destroy ich. However it didn't take as long to start suppressing it and he recovered quickly enough.
I guess my point is - try management if you like, but be ready to go into treatment as soon as they start taking a turn.

He eats nori like crazy I soak it in selcon and he eats frozen food with spirulina well also, I put the UV on 24-7 I’m keeping a close eye and I think I would like to try lowering the salinity slowly to see the reaction to the tank. He seems clearer than the day I took the picture. Thanks all the input has been very helpful. I think I would stress the whole tank out by removing rock and coral to get all the fish into quarantine, I think that would stress the rest of the fish more. I never had a good outcome with copper treatment when ever I tried. I guess if I have to do that I will.

 

[Neilie]

Just tried to get another picture before the lights went on, spots kind of look dark today. His fins are also clear some one mentioned the saw spots on his fins in one of the other pictures but I never saw his fins with spots yet. Still ich you think

 

[W31Olds]

looks like Black Ich. A type of worm. Treatment would be Praziquantel or A FW Dip for Temporary relief. If regular Marine Ich it would be all over his Fins also. Let's see what Jay has to say


@Jay Hemdal