White Tale Kole Tang

[Nathaniellund17]

Hello All,
Newer reefer. I picked up some tangs in November from an LFS (Hippo, Purple, Sailfin, Kole). I quarantined them for a month, then added to the 180 gal display. The Kole Tang started showing some milky white spots the first few days, then they disappeared. Looking at the Kole today, I'm seeing the spots again. I was originally thinking that ich are smaller dots that are a lot more pronounced. These dots look milky, almost translucent. Any thoughts?

All other tangs and fish are looking fine. But certainly don't want to run into a problem that will wipe out the whole tank. I do have a UV sterilizer running on the tank.

Thanks,
Nate

 

[vetteguy53081]

You’re pics are so blue it’s hard to tell
Please retake under white lights
May be bacterial but an educated guess until better pics

 

[Uncle99]

From what I can see, I don’t see either parasite, too big for even ick, and velvet much smaller, but the pic is a bit fuzzy to me.
I see some white patch near head in the second, looks like a rub or a bite mark.
If there is no behavioral changes, breathing, eating, I’d just keep watch.

 

[Nathaniellund17]

Thanks for the replies. Here's some better picks hopefully. So far I haven't seen any behavior changes with breathing or eating.

 

[Nathaniellund17]

You’re pics are so blue it’s hard to tell
Please retake under white lights
May be bacterial but an educated guess until better pics

Hi Vetteguy53081,
Here's the pictures cropped. Would welcome the feedback. If it's bacteria, what would you recommend as best treatment? Should I leave the fish in the display and hope that immune system will fight it off (I know sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease), or should I work to get the fish out of the display into a quarantine tank?
Thanks!

 

[mrtallbear86]

Beautiful fish! Hope it’s nothing serious!

 

[polyppal]

What was your QT procedure? Did you treat them with Prazipro for flukes?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hi Vetteguy53081,
Here's the pictures cropped. Would welcome the feedback. If it's bacteria, what would you recommend as best treatment? Should I leave the fish in the display and hope that immune system will fight it off (I know sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease), or should I work to get the fish out of the display into a quarantine tank?
Thanks!

Looks like mucus spores from previous parasitical outbreak
My suggestion- give it a 5 minute freshwater dip for 5 minutes and then quarantine treating with coppersafe or formalin based meds such as quick cure or ruby rally pro

 

[Nathaniellund17]

Thanks for the replies! Sounds like quarantine tank again. RE: Prior Quarantine process - I kept the fish in QT using Copper Power just above 2.0 PPM for just over a month.