Powder Brown tang

[ravalos2282]

I noticed this on my powder brown tang this morning. He’s on a Qt on its second week.
I did a FW Dip one e I noticed it.

Qt
1.026
77 temp
2.5 copper power
General Cure

 

[MnFish1]

An arrow pointing to the area you're concerned about would help. Is it the wound (that will likely heal) in the middle of the body - or something else? There are also some non-specific darker spots - that may be turbellarians? The gill area looks extremely odd to me - and perhaps thats what you're talking about?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I noticed this on my powder brown tang this morning. He’s on a Qt on its second week.
I did a FW Dip one e I noticed it.

Qt
1.026
77 temp
2.5 copper power
General Cure

this is likely an injury or puncture wound from either a fish or object in the tank. These fish spook easily and likely bumped an object

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Did you see this before or after the FW? I would not dip it again - that entails some risk, and general cure and copper cover things better.
Those gills do look funky, not sure what’s going on there.

Jay

 

[ravalos2282]

Did you see this before or after the FW? I would not dip it again - that entails some risk, and general cure and copper cover things better.
Those gills do look funky, not sure what’s going on there.

Jay

Before. That’s why I did the FW.

this is likely an injury or puncture wound from either a fish or object in the tank. These fish spook easily and likely bumped an object

thank you

 

[ravalos2282]

An arrow pointing to the area you're concerned about would help. Is it the wound (that will likely heal) in the middle of the body - or something else? There are also some non-specific darker spots - that may be turbellarians? The gill area looks extremely odd to me - and perhaps thats what you're talking about?

Sorry, I was talking about spot on the body. The wound. I took the picture when I was doing the FW dip that’s why the gills were like that.

Thank you

 

[ravalos2282]

An arrow pointing to the area you're concerned about would help. Is it the wound (that will likely heal) in the middle of the body - or something else? There are also some non-specific darker spots - that may be turbellarians? The gill area looks extremely odd to me - and perhaps thats what you're talking about?

You think he might have turbellarians? I

 

[vetteguy53081]

You think he might have turbellarians? I

I dont- there will be many black dots rather than one circle with turbellians AKA black ich.
You should see the same one dot and signs of healing daily.

 

[MnFish1]

You think he might have turbellarians? I

Hi - no- not really, I just meant that if it was the smaller black spots (which are minimal) - that you were looking at, that turbellarians could be the cause

 

[jmichaelh7]

Hopefully he makes it out of qt .

I have one beautiful fish

 

[Weeb]

If the fish has an open wound, copper would cause an irritation. I would let the fish cure the wound first, then continue on with Chemoprophylaxis.

Help the fish by improving its immunity and ability to heal wounds by adding supplements for an ill fish to its diet as recommended in the Fish Health Rough Proper Nutrition post. Use especially Beta-1,3/1,6-D-Glucan.

 

[ravalos2282]

I dont- there will be many black dots rather than one circle with turbellians AKA black ich.
You should see the same one dot and signs of healing daily.

Thank you

 

[ravalos2282]

Hi - no- not really, I just meant that if it was the smaller black spots (which are minimal) - that you were looking at, that turbellarians could be the cause

Thank you

 

[ravalos2282]

Hopefully he makes it out of qt .

I have one beautiful fish

Thank you