White patches on tang?

[Lou Raffael]

Hi, I noticed some white patches on my yellow tang today near his eye and towards his underbelly. The fish is swimming fine and eating well. Looks fine just don’t know what this is, if anything.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Happy new year

 

[CC13]

Hi, I noticed some white patches on my yellow tang today near his eye and towards his underbelly. The fish is swimming fine and eating well. Looks fine just don’t know what this is, if anything.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Happy new year

Looks sort of like a bacterial infection to me. Read here how to treat it:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/

 

[reef lover]

As well.as HILLE.

 

[CC13]

As well.as HILLE.

Actually ya forgot about that one good call.

 

[4FordFamily]

I actually think you’re probably dealing with flukes (based on areas of color loss and the fins being tattered) although a bacterial infection is certainly possible. I reconmend a freshwater dip in a dark bucket. Match temp and PH if possible.

If you see “sesame seeds” come off, and I’m pretty confident you will, treat with Prazi pro twice, 5-7 days apart. This can be done in your display and in fact should be due to the fact other fish have them also.

If you remove to quarantine you can treat with general cure instead. If there aren’t flukes I suspect bacterial infection as well which should be treated in either NFG in quarantine (first choice) or the “trifecta” which is kanaplex, metroplex, and furan 2. Again, in quarantine.

Also that fish has severe HLLE it appears. However with bad fluke infestations HLLE can look much worse than it is. This can be “treated” with time and the following:

1) high quality (clean) water
2) soaking foods in zoecon and selcon
3) avoiding dusty carbon use (rinse very very well)
4) check for electrical current in the water and if it is there, remove it.
5) feed nori, lots and vary food offerings.

This will take time, focus on what I suspect is flukes ASAP. Do the freshwater dip ASAP.

@HotRocks has a couple angels of mine right now that flukes caused what looked like severe HLLE that’s cleared up almost entirely since treating for flukes. It was crazy!

 

[Lou Raffael]

Thank you very much for the help. I will let you know how it works out

 

[Lou Raffael]

I actually think you’re probably dealing with flukes (based on areas of color loss and the fins being tattered) although a bacterial infection is certainly possible. I reconmend a freshwater dip in a dark bucket. Match temp and PH if possible.

If you see “sesame seeds” come off, and I’m pretty confident you will, treat with Prazi pro twice, 5-7 days apart. This can be done in your display and in fact should be due to the fact other fish have them also.

If you remove to quarantine you can treat with general cure instead. If there aren’t flukes I suspect bacterial infection as well which should be treated in either NFG in quarantine (first choice) or the “trifecta” which is kanaplex, metroplex, and furan 2. Again, in quarantine.

Also that fish has severe HLLE it appears. However with bad fluke infestations HLLE can look much worse than it is. This can be “treated” with time and the following:

1) high quality (clean) water
2) soaking foods in zoecon and selcon
3) avoiding dusty carbon use (rinse very very well)
4) check for electrical current in the water and if it is there, remove it.
5) feed nori, lots and vary food offerings.

This will take time, focus on what I suspect is flukes ASAP. Do the freshwater dip ASAP.

@HotRocks has a couple angels of mine right now that flukes caused what looked like severe HLLE that’s cleared up almost entirely since treating for flukes. It was crazy!

I was waiting to do the freshwater dip until I was able to get some prazi pro. My lfs was not open today or during New Years. I tried a bunch of other stores but did not find it.

Did a water change today and found that one of my chemipure elite bags had a hole in it and there is a lot of carbon in the tank, sump and caked on the skimmer. Only had 20 gallons of water ready so I’ll have to do do another one tomorrow and maybe again the day after. This was pretty awful. I’ll never use those chemipure elite bags again. They’ve been in the filter socks for about 5 weeks. I think when I had my tank serviced by the local fish a couple weeks ago the Maintainance guy mistakenly cut one of the bags and I never noticed since I was away.

I really should’ve caught this much sooner.

Do you suggest I still definitely do the freshwater dip for the flukes or just get the water cleaned up and treat with prazi pro?

Thanks again

 

[4FordFamily]

I was waiting to do the freshwater dip until I was able to get some prazi pro. My lfs was not open today or during New Years. I tried a bunch of other stores but did not find it.

Did a water change today and found that one of my chemipure elite bags had a hole in it and there is a lot of carbon in the tank, sump and caked on the skimmer. Only had 20 gallons of water ready so I’ll have to do do another one tomorrow and maybe again the day after. This was pretty awful. I’ll never use those chemipure elite bags again. They’ve been in the filter socks for about 5 weeks. I think when I had my tank serviced by the local fish a couple weeks ago the Maintainance guy mistakenly cut one of the bags and I never noticed since I was away.

I really should’ve caught this much sooner.

Do you suggest I still definitely do the freshwater dip for the flukes or just get the water cleaned up and treat with prazi pro?

Thanks again

I’d still do a freshwater dip, sorry for the troubles. Report back what you find.

 

[Lou Raffael]

I’d still do a freshwater dip, sorry for the troubles. Report back what you find.

How long do you suggest I dip? I’ve never done it and I’m hearing all different times from 1-5 minutes.

 

[4FordFamily]

How long do you suggest I dip? I’ve never done it and I’m hearing all different times from 1-5 minutes.

5 is good.

 

[Lou Raffael]

5 is good.

Thank you for your help

 

[4FordFamily]

Thank you for your help

No problem! :)