Yellow tang Ich

[Buttsnorkler]

So over night my yellow tang that I purchased 2 weeks ago broke out with Ich this morning. I check the water and everything checks out fine. I don’t know what might of caused it. Good thing she is in the quarantine tank so I’m treating her ruby reef. She also looks bloated! Can someone help is it just Ich or something else? All this fish are on a qt tank by the way. This is not my main tank

 

[Buttsnorkler]

So over night my yellow tang that I purchased 2 weeks ago broke out with Ich this morning. I check the water and everything checks out fine. I don’t know what might of caused it. Good thing she is in the quarantine tank so I’m treating her ruby reef. She also looks bloated! Can someone help is it just Ich or something else? All this fish are on a qt tank by the way. This is not my main tank

 

[richscorze]

All it takes for ich is for the "bug" to be in your system....then anything can trigger an outbreak from a very small temp drop to aggression from other fish. I use Cupramin in my hospital tank. You wouldn't have experienced an outbreak if it was treated with copper. I have two separate tanks...one for fish and one for corals. Any and all expense to make dang sure my main DT stays clean and uncontaminated.
My 2 cents

 

[jmichaelh7]

I would run a big UV plumbed at a low flow rate .

 

[ReefRusty]

All it takes for ich is for the "bug" to be in your system....then anything can trigger an outbreak from a very small temp drop to aggression from other fish. I use Cupramin in my hospital tank. You wouldn't have experienced an outbreak if it was treated with copper. I have two separate tanks...one for fish and one for corals. Any and all expense to make dang sure my main DT stays clean and uncontaminated.
My 2 cents

That is not true. There us still not garentee treating with copper. It an abuse more harm than good or the other way around. It can stress fish or it may not. There is no right or wrong regarding QT. Just me personally anyways.

 

[richscorze]

That is not true. There us still not garentee treating with copper. It an abuse more harm than good or the other way around. It can stress fish or it may not. There is no right or wrong regarding QT. Just me personally anyways.

I guess personal experience weighs heaviest on each of us. All I can say is this is in fact 100% true for me. ...and my clowns breed in copper all the time. I do try hard to keep copper very close to lowest limits required to be effective. (0.15-0.18...using Cupramin)

 

[Buttsnorkler]

All it takes for ich is for the "bug" to be in your system....then anything can trigger an outbreak from a very small temp drop to aggression from other fish. I use Cupramin in my hospital tank. You wouldn't have experienced an outbreak if it was treated with copper. I have two separate tanks...one for fish and one for corals. Any and all expense to make dang sure my main DT stays clean and uncontaminated.
My 2 cents

Well as stated on my initial post. That was a QT tank. Not my main display. I appreciate the feed back. Unfortunately it was not Ich and it was velvet. The place I bought it from had a break out and didn’t tell me. I lost all the fish in that Qt tank. I tried everything.