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Old 10/21/2007, 04:48 PM
Mappelbaum37 Mappelbaum37 is offline
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Yellow tang

I recently started 2 threads about a week ago on a yellow tang I had bought and it just died this morning. (sunday). It was a week old and would eat anything i put in the tank. The store gave me a credit for a new one and I just put it in about 5 minutes ago (after acclimation of course.) He looks like hes scratching his body against the rocks in the tank which I assume he has ich, but i dont see anything on his body. In the store he wasnt scratching his body against anything. I have corals in the tank so I cant treat it medically. Although now it looks like hes not scratching his body so much, what should I do?
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Old 10/21/2007, 05:00 PM
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Could have been feeling uncomfortable from the new water or could have just had a regular itch - doesn't necessarily mean there is ich.

If it continues, it likely is ich. Ich doesn't have to be visible yet to be present. What you see is actually just a reaction on the skin from the parasites that are under it.


(Sorry to hear about the other yellow tang. If it was eating and everything it would have been wise to figure out what killed it before buying a new fish...)
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Old 10/21/2007, 05:07 PM
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thats what the store told me. They said after 2 days if its not eating bring it back to the fish "doctor" that works their and see whats wrong. I just fed the tank frozen food (brine shrimp) and the tang ate. I have a feeling he's gonna make it because temporarily it looks like hes grazing more then scratching. Tomorrow morning before the lights go on, should I add some seaweed and put it on a clip for the tang?
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Old 10/22/2007, 05:42 AM
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Always add seaweed (nori) for your tangs - particularly YT's...
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Old 10/22/2007, 06:05 AM
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Noramlly healthy tangs are exposed in the LFS to ich, even if they are strong enough to battle them teh ich can sit on their outer layers until the conditions. Thisis why QT are great because when you runhypo it killls anything on the fish whether it is visible are not. The tang most likely was stress like any other fish would and the parasite got through.
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