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I will begin by stating that I might just be over dramatic about this, and possibly worrying about something that doesn't exist. I want to do what is best for the fish and do not want to have anyone in harm. I picked up a purple tang on November 10th and he has been doing great ever since. There are a couple of things that I'm not sure if I should be worried about, or if I'm being overly proactive. My thought would be if he had anything it would be flukes, but I don't know how long the life cycle of flukes last.
Let me begin by stating that everything is going great with the tang, and there have been NO noticeable signs of a change in behavior or eating habits. He eats like a pig and receives mysis shrimp every day and flakes/purple seaweed most days that I don't forget.
1. The tangs eyes have never been perfectly clear. I wouldn't call them hazy and there are no white spots in the eye, but they just don't have the same clarity as other fish in the tang such as a melanarus wrasse. They are the same amount of not perfectly clear on both sides. This might just be his dark purple is making the eyes look less black. You can see in the picture. I will apologize for not having the best photos of his eyes. The fish doesn't like to swim in place very much.
2. There has been a white spot or possibly just a missing scale about 5mm above his right eye. I was not able to capture a photo of this on my iPhone, and will try to get a photo tomorrow once the lights are on with the DSLR. There is a melanarus wrasse in the tank and they never have fought, at least that I've seen, but they do show some light signs of aggression and it's possible that he nipped at the tang one night or something.
3. He does breath slightly heavily. I will also try to get this on video. I feel as though it might just be him swimming around all of the time, but it is possible that it could be something else. I've had sick fish before in other tanks and I know that he is not breathing anywhere near as heavy as what I've seen before.
Again he shows no signs of any changes and he has been in the tank for over 3 months now. Is this something that I should not worry about as it has already been so long of a period? I paid $125 for him and would just hate to see anything happen to him now. I just couldn't find good information on the life cycle of flukes.
I should also note parameters are as follows. I do not run Carbon/GFO/any media.
Temp - 76ºF (swings about .3ºF during the day)
Salinity - 1.025
Ph - 8.05 during the day and 7.90 at night (might be a bad ph probe as I have a CO2 scrubber)
Ammonia - 0.00
Nitrite - 0.00
Nitrate - 0.00 (don't know why this stays so low [tested with salifert and API])
Phosphate - 0.00-0.03
Alkalinity - 8-8.5
Calcium - 450ppm
Magnesium - 1500ppm (tested with NYOS and Red Sea)
Potassium - 420ppm
Iodine - 0.06
Iron - 0.15ppm
Let me begin by stating that everything is going great with the tang, and there have been NO noticeable signs of a change in behavior or eating habits. He eats like a pig and receives mysis shrimp every day and flakes/purple seaweed most days that I don't forget.
1. The tangs eyes have never been perfectly clear. I wouldn't call them hazy and there are no white spots in the eye, but they just don't have the same clarity as other fish in the tang such as a melanarus wrasse. They are the same amount of not perfectly clear on both sides. This might just be his dark purple is making the eyes look less black. You can see in the picture. I will apologize for not having the best photos of his eyes. The fish doesn't like to swim in place very much.
2. There has been a white spot or possibly just a missing scale about 5mm above his right eye. I was not able to capture a photo of this on my iPhone, and will try to get a photo tomorrow once the lights are on with the DSLR. There is a melanarus wrasse in the tank and they never have fought, at least that I've seen, but they do show some light signs of aggression and it's possible that he nipped at the tang one night or something.
3. He does breath slightly heavily. I will also try to get this on video. I feel as though it might just be him swimming around all of the time, but it is possible that it could be something else. I've had sick fish before in other tanks and I know that he is not breathing anywhere near as heavy as what I've seen before.
Again he shows no signs of any changes and he has been in the tank for over 3 months now. Is this something that I should not worry about as it has already been so long of a period? I paid $125 for him and would just hate to see anything happen to him now. I just couldn't find good information on the life cycle of flukes.
I should also note parameters are as follows. I do not run Carbon/GFO/any media.
Temp - 76ºF (swings about .3ºF during the day)
Salinity - 1.025
Ph - 8.05 during the day and 7.90 at night (might be a bad ph probe as I have a CO2 scrubber)
Ammonia - 0.00
Nitrite - 0.00
Nitrate - 0.00 (don't know why this stays so low [tested with salifert and API])
Phosphate - 0.00-0.03
Alkalinity - 8-8.5
Calcium - 450ppm
Magnesium - 1500ppm (tested with NYOS and Red Sea)
Potassium - 420ppm
Iodine - 0.06
Iron - 0.15ppm