I have a 6 inch black tang. Got him in October, went thru two weeks of copper power at 2.4, 2 rounds of prazi pro a week apart at 2.5 mg/l dose.
Fans word, the last couple weeks he has more or less white splotches on him. Looks like a patchy residue on the body, best way I can describe it is when you wash your car and let it air dry, you see white streaks behind.
The last couple weeks he is also swimming into the lower head. It’s an mp60 at 50 percent speed, and he literally gets in front of it and charges it head on until he’s about a 1/2 inch from it and it blows him back, and then he will repeat. He will do this for 10-15 minutes, swim away from it under the rocks , then return after about 10 minutes to the power head.
There’s a hippo tang in here with no signs of white spots , with etc.
Being this is a fish only, 5 days ago I dosed in copper power to 2.5, but with rocks in there I’m sure it’s dropped. No improvement after a few days of copper.
The other odd tendency in the tang will sometimes go up high in the corners and just stay pretty still. An emperor angel, about 1/3 his size, looks likes helping or plucking at the tangs body. Like the emperor will come up to him side way, look for a few seconds at the body, then take a nip, sorta like when a new finicky fish eyes up a clam befor taking a hit at it. The tang will allow these “nips” 2-3 times before swimming away from the emperor. Almost like there’s something’s edible on the tangs body.
Thinking Gil flukes, i dosed prazi in the display. Been about two hours and he’s still making his charges at the power head. I also have not see flukes fly off the body when dosed, then again maybe Gil flukes are too small to see.
Removing fish is not an option. Last time I tried this I lost a bunch of fish with the transfer, and there’s 14-16 other fish in this tank that don’t seem bothered or has same symptoms.
Fish still eats, and it’s been a few weeks, so i don’t believe it’s velvet.
I had an Achilles tang die a week ago with similar behavior (black bodied fish, easy to see) along with a 4-5 other fish including a watanabe angel, a blue face angel and an oreni tile fish. Those fish looked great and ate day before death. Most had been with me at least 6-7 months.
Lastly, approximately 4 feet away from this tank is a smaller tank, 4 foot frag tank that use for small fish. Houses a smaller Achilles, regal angel, joculator angel, chaoti leopard wrasse and some clownfish. They were all qtd the same way as the black tang, and look fine in that tank, no issues (knock on wood) that I can see. Both these tank were revamped last summer, bleached out and started over, and fish from both tanks go thru the same mess, mostly at the Same time, just get divided up when it comes time to tank placement
Any advice would be appreciated
Fans word, the last couple weeks he has more or less white splotches on him. Looks like a patchy residue on the body, best way I can describe it is when you wash your car and let it air dry, you see white streaks behind.
The last couple weeks he is also swimming into the lower head. It’s an mp60 at 50 percent speed, and he literally gets in front of it and charges it head on until he’s about a 1/2 inch from it and it blows him back, and then he will repeat. He will do this for 10-15 minutes, swim away from it under the rocks , then return after about 10 minutes to the power head.
There’s a hippo tang in here with no signs of white spots , with etc.
Being this is a fish only, 5 days ago I dosed in copper power to 2.5, but with rocks in there I’m sure it’s dropped. No improvement after a few days of copper.
The other odd tendency in the tang will sometimes go up high in the corners and just stay pretty still. An emperor angel, about 1/3 his size, looks likes helping or plucking at the tangs body. Like the emperor will come up to him side way, look for a few seconds at the body, then take a nip, sorta like when a new finicky fish eyes up a clam befor taking a hit at it. The tang will allow these “nips” 2-3 times before swimming away from the emperor. Almost like there’s something’s edible on the tangs body.
Thinking Gil flukes, i dosed prazi in the display. Been about two hours and he’s still making his charges at the power head. I also have not see flukes fly off the body when dosed, then again maybe Gil flukes are too small to see.
Removing fish is not an option. Last time I tried this I lost a bunch of fish with the transfer, and there’s 14-16 other fish in this tank that don’t seem bothered or has same symptoms.
Fish still eats, and it’s been a few weeks, so i don’t believe it’s velvet.
I had an Achilles tang die a week ago with similar behavior (black bodied fish, easy to see) along with a 4-5 other fish including a watanabe angel, a blue face angel and an oreni tile fish. Those fish looked great and ate day before death. Most had been with me at least 6-7 months.
Lastly, approximately 4 feet away from this tank is a smaller tank, 4 foot frag tank that use for small fish. Houses a smaller Achilles, regal angel, joculator angel, chaoti leopard wrasse and some clownfish. They were all qtd the same way as the black tang, and look fine in that tank, no issues (knock on wood) that I can see. Both these tank were revamped last summer, bleached out and started over, and fish from both tanks go thru the same mess, mostly at the Same time, just get divided up when it comes time to tank placement
Any advice would be appreciated
