Black Tang Disease

[LokeLucky]

1.012 is fine for Neobenedenia. 1.009 is needed for marine ich, Cryptocaryon, but it is riskier to do. I can't advise you on this - the tang didn't show any distinct signs of ich, but its skin was so congested it would be impossible to tell. I'd hate to have you cure the Neo but then lose the fish to ich. On the other hand, going to 1.009 can kill the fish, but if you don't get to that point exactly, it won't take care of ich.

Here is a post I made on hyposalinity:

Hyposalinity

Hyposalinity Jay Hemdal 2024 This term refers to a long-term bath treatment for marine fishes in which the salt content of the water is lowered and held below the point that certain parasites can survive. The salt level reached, and the time of the treatment are the two variables...

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Jay

Ok, thank you so much. Last question sorry should I do this process to all the fish in this qt ? Along with black tang i have Oreni and clown fish in this system.
Does this disease stay in water colum and attack other fish ?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Ok, thank you so much. Last question sorry should I do this process to all the fish in this qt ? Along with black tang i have Oreni and clown fish in this system.
Does this disease stay in water colum and attack other fish ?

Neobenedenia infects a wide variety of fish, but I do not know if it infects Oreni tilefish (I've never had one, and I don't know how it will react to hypo!). Neo can infect clownfish.

Common wisdom is since Neo has adhesive eggs that are resistant to many drugs, all fish exposed need to be treated.

Many years ago I co-authored a paper on Neo host records. If you want to review that, it might shed some insight on the tilefish? (I ran a search for "tilefish" and didn't find a match though).

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1416&context=parasitologyfacpubs

Jay

 

[LokeLucky]

Neobenedenia infects a wide variety of fish, but I do not know if it infects Oreni tilefish (I've never had one, and I don't know how it will react to hypo!). Neo can infect clownfish.

Common wisdom is since Neo has adhesive eggs that are resistant to many drugs, all fish exposed need to be treated.

Many years ago I co-authored a paper on Neo host records. If you want to review that, it might shed some insight on the tilefish? (I ran a search for "tilefish" and didn't find a match though).

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1416&context=parasitologyfacpubs

Jay

noted, I am starting the process for hypo. Will add black tang and clown fish for now and will watch closely how the Oreni tile fish will do in the same old tank.

Thank you so much Jay