So I went out and got myself a small yellow tang today watched it swim around its tank checked it couldn't see anything wrong with it. He was eating and everything seemed fine with it. Got it home and under the blue light and it has white dots all over I think it is ich wanted to get everyone's opinion on what it is and treatments.
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Yellow tang ich?
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Big G
captain dunsel
Large, salt sized, and you can count them. Probably Ich; Small sized, too many to count them. Probably velvet. Both are treated the same, but velvet requires urgent treatment before the parasites can do serious damage, usually unseen within the gills.
Big G
captain dunsel
Freshwater dip can do a couple of things: first, it causes flukes to spasm and fall off. They look like little sesame seeds. So you need to look in the bottom of the container used for the FW dip to see if indeed your fish had flukes.
But the freshwater dip can also provide temporary relief to ich, velvet and brook. For ich and velvet, the FW dip often will cause some of the spots to diminish. The spots are not parasites; they are mucous buildup on the fish's skin responding to the parasite wounding the fish, kinda like a scab but white.
So I have been treating with copper and he has been doing great this morning he had a very little bit of a white mucus at the top of his eye he was still acting fine and still eating. Tonight when I woke up for work it has taken over his eye and he is hardly moving. My alert badge still says no ammonia and the yellow belly blue hippo that is getting treated with it is fine. We did a 50% water change and pretreated it to keep the copper right.
Do you have any antibiotics on hand? I think it's likely the people I tagged above are going to recommend them
Just checked on him during my lunch and he didnt make it.. still dont know what happened to him. He was fine yesterday morning and most of the day yesterday should I be worried about my blue tang that was getting medicated with him
Looks like his eye popped
I'm really sorry to hear about that, you should get a response from one of the experts I tagged soon. It looks like an infection to me but they will probably have a better explanation for you
It does look like an infection, though it wouldn’t be a bad idea to check any fish that shared a tank with it, for flukes. Eye infections are often secondary to flukes.
I’m sorry for your loss :(
I’m sorry for your loss :(
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