first all, the fact that it went for it is a good sign. You can try the smaller ones, maybe soak them in Selcon. I am trying to find the link for the link for the live ones. I always soak any food in selcon.
New naso tang with white dust patches
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So far I tried the jumbo ones, spit it out. I tried spirulina brine and it wasn't interested at all. I have one cube of mysis and the smaller bloodworms soaking in selcon and garlic, meanwhile its still picking at the purple seaweed and actually eating it. Ill try to order some live bloodworms today and give that a shot!
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Again though, and Jay may end up hating me for tagging him so many times, but @Jay Hemdal is the disease man, so please don't just focus on me, listen to him as well as it may be something else. I say this because I love the Naso genus of the tang.
Stand by, I also see the same, I may have named the wrong type of worm, it has been a while since I researched them, sorry. ;Facepalm
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I would love to hear Jay's take, I fed the mix of mysis and bloodworms but this time no interest. Very frustrating
I would love to hear Jay's take. I fed the mysis and bloodworm mix but no response this time. Very frustrating to see but he is eating seaweed so I guess ill feed more of that for now while I can get it on to frozen foods as well, I'm thinking of buying live black worms and live brine shrimp from my LFS to see if I can get a response from that. Any other foods you would suggest?
I believe OP stated they just got tang. Did the fish have this pre-existing ? A sudden outbreak is concerning.
Ive seen this at least twice and have reason to believe these whitish blobs are almost certainly neuromast destruction - the mucus filled pit organs of the principal lateralis line of the head. Note how they're bilaterally symmetrical. The cause can be blue/green Algae Toxicity, system and water quality and/or diet.
This may be not your tank water quality but that of the LFS it was purchased from. I would focus on water quality as well as diet. Some suggestions were made. I ALWAYS recommend certain foods for tangs who are herbivores and must meet the demands/requirements of herbivore diets.
These foods are :
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine
Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health
Ive seen this at least twice and have reason to believe these whitish blobs are almost certainly neuromast destruction - the mucus filled pit organs of the principal lateralis line of the head. Note how they're bilaterally symmetrical. The cause can be blue/green Algae Toxicity, system and water quality and/or diet.
This may be not your tank water quality but that of the LFS it was purchased from. I would focus on water quality as well as diet. Some suggestions were made. I ALWAYS recommend certain foods for tangs who are herbivores and must meet the demands/requirements of herbivore diets.
These foods are :
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine
Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health
I will let you know on the worms, again, I may have miss stated. As soon as I hear something I will let you know. We, sorry, I know its your fish, got to get it eating.
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When I saw it in the LFS, it had no physical markings on its head like it does now. When I observed it in the bag, he had all the marks on his head prior to being introduced to the qt. I have other fish in qt with it and I don't see signs of poor water quality in my qt but Ill do a water change and I've been running carbon as well. Not sure what else to do other than that but I will try everything I've got to get it feeding, so far hes eating seaweed soaked in garlic and selcon.
It is blackworms, not bloodworms, so my bad. I would get them from the place I recommended as they are the only place to get them from anyway, lol. All other vendors get them from there.
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You need to give it some protein as well, try mysids, gel diet, even pellets.
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Don't forget - a suprising number of people are highly allergic to bloodworms!
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@Billldg hi guys, I’m sorry for bugging you but I wanted to give an update and wanted to see if there’s anything else you recommend I do to get this guy eating, I’ve dosed prazi and I raised copper levels to above 1.25, should be at 2.25 in a few days. Still hasn’t eaten anything and I’ve tried everything I have including live blackworms and live brine shrimp. He only eats purple seaweed for now but not aggressively at all. Should I do a ruby reef rally bath?
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Oh - you need to get your copper up to a full dose in 12 hours or so. I don't know where this "take five days to raise the copper" idea comes form, but it's wrong and I see way too many fish die during a slow ramp up. I often add fish right into full copper and never have an issue. Think about all the dealers that do that as well.
That said the lesions in these pictures look different than what I saw initially. I now can't rule out Brooklynella. Copper won't fix that. A Ruby Reef Rally bath would be a good idea.
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