Does my hippo tang has ich

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He’s been hiding in between the rocks for a couple days after putting him in the display tank, he seem fine in the quarantine tank last month was moving all around. He still eats normal just hides and I don’t know if thats ich or substrate from the sand or rocks

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It looks like it has a bit of damage to its caudal area. I see some white spots, but they are not clear enough to say if it is ich or not.

Three things commonly cause white spots on hepatus tangs; ich, coral sand sticking to the fish and mucus plugs. It is not always easy to tell these apart.

What I look for with ich are small white spots that come and go, and change location over a period of a day or two. The spots may go completely away, then return in different locations (including the fins). There will be a general trend though, pf the spots increasing in umber.

Coral sand shows up, but then gets brushed off by the fish in a few hours.

Mucus plugs are a reaction that hepatus tangs show to some skin irritation (but this can include ich!). They are larger, and tend to remain in the same location for days at a time and really do not come and go.

Jay
 
Took him out just to see up close but he didn’t end up making it shortly after
 

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