Ive noticed mention of stress spots in this forum but when I try to research it elsewhere I can’t find any mention of it with all searches going straight to ich.
So are stress spots a thing and is it anything to worry about?
The reason for my thread is due to the below and I don’t know if I‘m delaying the inevitable by not acting on it.
My powder blue tang gets a bunch of white spots on its side after being stressed.
I’ve seen it happen a few times, usually I’ll notice the dorsal up and white stripes indicating somethings bothering it and after this ends the spots appear only to disappear again within a couple of hours.
When I first bought it 5 weeks ago I did notice some scratching against the sand and was worried about ich but after giving a healthy amount of garlic and time to settle this stopped.
I feed flakes but I still soak frozen food in garlic a few times a week just to help with their immune system.
Its very teritorial to the point of a lawnmower blenny starving to death after being introduced and the tang not letting it come out to eat but that’s a different story...
The tang is small, only 2-3 inches. I’m hoping the aggression is a phase, if there is such a thing!
The reason I’m posting now is after testing the mirror trick to see if there’s any point attempting to add more fish again and it worked, my tang freaked out! White stripes, dorsal in full bloom and attacking its reflection. I took the mirror away after 10 minutes as I was worried it might injure itself or have a heart attack! 5 minutes later I noticed the spots appear. 2 hours later they had disappeared.
It‘s healthy with a big appetite but do I have a festering disease that’s eventually going to take out my other fish or is this normal?
So are stress spots a thing and is it anything to worry about?
The reason for my thread is due to the below and I don’t know if I‘m delaying the inevitable by not acting on it.
My powder blue tang gets a bunch of white spots on its side after being stressed.
I’ve seen it happen a few times, usually I’ll notice the dorsal up and white stripes indicating somethings bothering it and after this ends the spots appear only to disappear again within a couple of hours.
When I first bought it 5 weeks ago I did notice some scratching against the sand and was worried about ich but after giving a healthy amount of garlic and time to settle this stopped.
I feed flakes but I still soak frozen food in garlic a few times a week just to help with their immune system.
Its very teritorial to the point of a lawnmower blenny starving to death after being introduced and the tang not letting it come out to eat but that’s a different story...
The tang is small, only 2-3 inches. I’m hoping the aggression is a phase, if there is such a thing!
The reason I’m posting now is after testing the mirror trick to see if there’s any point attempting to add more fish again and it worked, my tang freaked out! White stripes, dorsal in full bloom and attacking its reflection. I took the mirror away after 10 minutes as I was worried it might injure itself or have a heart attack! 5 minutes later I noticed the spots appear. 2 hours later they had disappeared.
It‘s healthy with a big appetite but do I have a festering disease that’s eventually going to take out my other fish or is this normal?
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