Powder Brown Tang looking beat up

[hexcolor reef]

powder brown tang looking very bad, seems to be slimming on the bottom of its belly and eye. What to do.
I thought my lights maybe to string but I turned them down and still looking shady. A lot of flow and oxygen in the tank. I have other tangs and none of them are experiencing the same.

 

[hexcolor reef]

White spots all over body, if it’s ich how could I manage the fish over night until I’m able to get to a store

 

[Auto-pilot]

It looks to be ich. Maybe a freshwater dip to help and the QT with copper

 

[hexcolor reef]

It looks to be ich. Maybe a freshwater dip to help and the QT with copper

Did a fresh water dip last night, it died. Didn’t have any copper on hand. Im blacking out my tank for a few days. It will be impossible to QT all of my fish separately. Some reason I’ve only had problems with powder brown tangs

 

[Icryhard]

Did a fresh water dip last night, it died. Didn’t have any copper on hand. Im blacking out my tank for a few days. It will be impossible to QT all of my fish separately. Some reason I’ve only had problems with powder brown tangs

RIP.

 

[Crabby48]

Did a fresh water dip last night, it died. Didn’t have any copper on hand. Im blacking out my tank for a few days. It will be impossible to QT all of my fish separately. Some reason I’ve only had problems with powder brown tangs

Of you can’t qt all fish nor remove coral you can look into h202 treatment to display. It works but takes awhile. Also powder tangs are more nervous fish with a thinner slime coat so more susceptible to showing ich. It’s in your tank. UV and feeding very healthy and have fish with low stress can help manage

 

[hunterallen40]

Let's try to keep this from being a management vs eradication debate... OP lost their fish, and that sucks.

People have been successful with both paths, but, if you want to keep an acanthurus tang, I would encourage you to go through with a proper copper treatment and fallow period.

UV sterilizers are also helpful. I would say getting a UV installed is more or less the minimum you can do if you want to keep acanthurus tangs.

Also, for what it's worth, freshwater dips are not effective against marine ich (though they do work for velvet). You just have to wait for the trophonts to fall off the fish.

Best of luck moving forward! Sorry about your fish.

 

[sfin52]

Let's try to keep this from being a management vs eradication debate... OP lost their fish, and that sucks.

If the op can't qt than at this point it's management.

 

[hexcolor reef]

Of you can’t qt all fish nor remove coral you can look into h202 treatment to display. It works but takes awhile. Also powder tangs are more nervous fish with a thinner slime coat so more susceptible to showing ich. It’s in your tank. UV and feeding very healthy and have fish with low stress can help manage

My UV bulb just stop working right before which I found out after doing a system check afterwards

 

[vetteguy53081]

powder brown tang looking very bad, seems to be slimming on the bottom of its belly and eye. What to do.
I thought my lights maybe to string but I turned them down and still looking shady. A lot of flow and oxygen in the tank. I have other tangs and none of them are experiencing the same.

This is cryptocaryon which is marine ich. You will need to place fish in Quarantine tank and treat with Coppersafe or Copper Power at therapeutic level 2.25-2.5 For a FULL 30 days (do not interrupt this 30 day period) monitored by a reliable Copper Test kit such as Hanna Brand- No API brand. Also monitor Ammonia levels while in quarantine with a reliable test kit and add aeration during treatment using an air stone.
The display tank will have to be kept fishless (FALLOW) for 6-8 weeks to assure the existing parasites go through their life cycle without a host fish and die off

 

[hexcolor reef]

Let's try to keep this from being a management vs eradication debate... OP lost their fish, and that sucks.

People have been successful with both paths, but, if you want to keep an acanthurus tang, I would encourage you to go through with a proper copper treatment and fallow period.

UV sterilizers are also helpful. I would say getting a UV installed is more or less the minimum you can do if you want to keep acanthurus tangs.

Also, for what it's worth, freshwater dips are not effective against marine ich (though they do work for velvet). You just have to wait for the trophonts to fall off the fish.

Best of luck moving forward! Sorry about your fish.

I have blue hippo tangs that are in the same tank that’s healthy no signs of ich or velvet which throws me a lot????!!
I have set up a QT area I guess

 

[Crabby48]

Or read up on h202 dosage to display. If you can’t qt and go fallow. Best is qt and go fallow but can’t always do it. H202 dosing isn’t bad but you will need a dose pump like jaebo

 

[Crabby48]

Not all fish will show it only the weaker ones but over time it could show up. You probably been managing ich but it’s only good until something adds stress or like uv bulb. Heater failure bullying anything can trigger an outbreak with managent

 

[hexcolor reef]

Or read up on h202 dosage to display. If you can’t qt and go fallow. Best is qt and go fallow but can’t always do it. H202 dosing isn’t bad but you will need a dose pump like jaebo

I’ll check this out. Would be a lot of help and less work.

 

[Crabby48]

I’ll check this out. Would be a lot of help and less work.

It’s not ideal and is more new but much success. It’s a slow start because of small doses to let coral and inverts acclimate. There is a chance coral or inverts could die. Not ideal but better than nothing.
H202 is great treatment and I use it as baths and many qt sellers are doing it.

Good luck with your journey

 

[hexcolor reef]

Not all fish will show it only the weaker ones but over time it could show up. You probably been managing ich but it’s only good until something adds stress or like uv bulb. Heater failure bullying anything can trigger an outbreak with managent

I do have another Powder brown tang that may have been bullying it. I put them in at the same time frame so to lessen the bullying. Using a laser to spot treat the fish is that possible?

 

[Crabby48]

That may have been added stress. That mix most of the times don’t work out once they start to mature. Don’t know anything about laser and can’t see how it would work. They’re on all hard surface so no way to spot kill.

I do have another Powder brown tang that may have been bullying it. I put them in at the same time frame so to lessen the bullying. Using a laser to spot treat the fish is that possible?