[jgo1973]

I thought it was Ich at first and maybe it is...

Your opinions are greatly appreciated...





Some are white in real life...they almost look like chicken pox (but not red of corse).

[rlcline76]

Looks like ich.
How long have you had the tang? Please tell me it is in QT.

[rlcline76]

Duh, that ain't QT.
Bad, because you will need to treat and you cannot treat in the main tank. What else do you have in your main display?

[aquasalt]

yikes. That sux!

[aquasalt]

Try feeding him garlic, if you aren;t already. I'm actually getting mine to eat fresh garlic and have observed a lot of improvement. But this looks like a pretty severe condition. How long have you had him?

[jgo1973]

She eats nori and brine shrimp soaked with Kent Garlic Extreme. It just seemed to get worse overnight. I will QT, I was debating since she is so big and the QT is only 20gal that that might stress her out and add to the problem. I have had luck a year or so ago w/hypo but now there are corals,anenomes and a snowflake eel in the tank.

I wanted to make sure I was treating the right condition first and I wasn't dealing with something I hadn't seen before...sounds like I was right. (Darn)


Thanks everyone!

[FINDING_NEMO]

dori is an ick magnet

[jgo1973]

Funny!

And she looks awesome today...has never missed a meal!

Go figure!

[FINDING_NEMO]

she probably looks like that from having bad memory

[jimw369]

Originally Posted by jgo1973

I thought it was Ich at first and maybe it is...

Your opinions are greatly appreciated...





Some are white in real life...they almost look like chicken pox (but not red of corse).

Measles

[Jeremy0322]

Any update on Dori's condition??

[jimw369]

Originally Posted by jimw369

Measles

You might want to try and mix Metrondiazole (Im sure thats not spelled right)with your food and feed directly to all your fish. Works wonders, can be used in the DT and is great for treating skin disorders.

I dont know why we dont hear more about this product.

[jgo1973]

Look at Beautiful Dori...




I did not move her from the DT. I just increased her "kent garlic extreme" and a little more nori that usual and she is doing awesome.

Thanks for all your advice and concern

HAPPY THURSDAY!

[Krazy]

Its not full blown ick if its ick at all, its from stress, these fish get white spots time to time from stress alone, could look like a full blown outbreak one day and clean as a whistle the next, your doing the right thing with lots of nori and the garlic, also feed dori lots of meaty foods as well, she'll enjoy mysis and more chunky foods.

No need to worry, these fish are weird as anything when it comes to the spots. They get so sketched out easily and that stresses them out alot.

I have a large blue hippo and time to time when its stressed out this happens.

[jgo1973]

Thanks Keith...that is exactly what it was like one day bam and the next gone. Good info.

I put some silversides and krill in the food processor and added some garlic drops and selcon drops and re froze. I have been giving her, the clown and the new cardinals that daily and they all seem to love it!

Now she just needs to chill out and we'll be good to go!

[siredmund]

Glad Dori is all better!

[robe25m]

This was a good post because it shows the best method of treatment, diet...

Proper food, vitamins etc are a must for tangs and if you ask me are the best cure for ich, I generally bump the heat up, drop salinity slightly and ramp up vitamins seems to work every time especially for tangs.

I saved a friends Hippo recently from a horrible case of Ich, still waiting for my case of beer

Cleaner wrasse or shrimp are always welcome with hippos if you ask me

[Fishhead Junkie]

i have a question on hippo tangs and treating them with garlic. i feed my tank with the usual brine shrimp or mysis shrimp frozen cubes. what is the best way to administer garlic into the food and then to the fish? should i continue to disolve the frozen shrimp in a cup and add the garlic drops? or can you disolve the cubes, add the garlic and then refreeze them? or do you just feed them the cubes and just put the drops directly into the water while they feed? how many drops per frozen cube? i have a 29gallon bio-cube by the way.

steve

[robe25m]

I never used garlic but i can tell you chemi pure vitamins work wonders, I would also like to know how garlic is added, are we talking about garlic cloves here?

[Fishhead Junkie]

hahahaha..garlic cloves...thats classic. no, its liquid garlic with an eyedropper top. i am still waiting for someone to answer me...come on dudes or dudettes.

steve

[jgo1973]

Kent Garlic extreme.

You will want to let the frozen food (any size or mixture is fine) sit out at room temp and defrost on its own. Then add a drop or two depending on the amount of food, let it sit and soak it all in for at least 10 min or so and then feed your fish as normal.

I have refroze as well and that is good too, but don't drop it in to the water as a frozen "chunk"...I have heard that is not good. I don't remember why, so I just don't do it.

[aquasalt]

I sometimes crush garlic cloves and mix small amounts in with the brine.