has anyone seen this happen

[Ubergroover]

Hello everyone,
I have a Kole tang. new to the tank, about 1 week. After 5 days it started to look like he had ich. I ordered some meds online. Be here tomorrow. So I come home from work and the fish looks completely healthy. No spots, swimming around. Looks happy and hungry. I always heard that ich is a difficult thing to deal with. Has anyone seen this happen?

Jerry

 

[sc50964]

Fish can naturally fight off some of it when it has good immune system. Or it could be the fact that the ich is in its normal cycle of reproduction. If it's was indeed ich and you have not treated it, it's still in the tank and all fish are still exposed to it.

 

[melypr1985]

Hello everyone,
I have a Kole tang. new to the tank, about 1 week. After 5 days it started to look like he had ich. I ordered some meds online. Be here tomorrow. So I come home from work and the fish looks completely healthy. No spots, swimming around. Looks happy and hungry. I always heard that ich is a difficult thing to deal with. Has anyone seen this happen?

Jerry

How long had the spots been on the fish before disappearing?

 

[Roy 9121]

A healthy fish can fight of ich, but it's still in your tank. You have to fallow your tank for 80 days tho get rid of it.

 

[Empress]

If spots disappear at 7 days or less you might have ich. If the spots disappeared at or before 4 days, you have velvet. Did you order copper?

Do you have a picture so we can accurately diagnose the problem? Could have been lympho.

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

Were the spots raised and looking like grains of salt? My Scopas tang gets white spots when I stare at him too closely, but they quickly disappear when he calms down. Apparently, this is normal for them. If the spots are raised, however, ich is the most likely candidate. Velvet looks like a goldish, dusty layer on the fish.

 

[Ubergroover]

white raised dots. Very distinct and round. When I got home from work, my first impression was " I wonder if Tangs do this?" however I dont know. Yes I ordered copper. I still plan on treating, but it confused me. I will post a pic when he comes out.

 

[Humblefish]

How many dots (roughly)? It could have also been sand stuck to his mucous coat.

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

white raised dots. Very distinct and round. When I got home from work, my first impression was " I wonder if Tangs do this?" however I dont know. Yes I ordered copper. I still plan on treating, but it confused me. I will post a pic when he comes out.

I'm curious....what else is in the tank? Do you plan on removing the tang for copper treatment?

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

How many dots (roughly)? It could have also been sand stuck to his mucous coat.

Very true! This happens to my tangs and Clarkii all the time.

 

[Ubergroover]

How many dots (roughly)? It could have also been sand stuck to his mucous coat.

looked like when you walk in the water at the beach then walk back to your towel. a lot of specs. They were on his pec fins also... not now.

 

[Ubergroover]

I'm curious....what else is in the tank? Do you plan on removing the tang for copper treatment?

watchman goby, and two clownfish. no inverts or coral. I was planning on treating the tank with the fish in it. Bad?

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

Any live rock or sand?

 

[Ubergroover]

Any live rock or sand?

dry rock , live sand.

 

[recess62]

If you have rock in the tank it will absorb the copper. This might make it difficult to add inverts in the future

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

If you have rock in the tank it will absorb the copper. This might make it difficult to add inverts in the future

Exactly. You will want to remove the fish for treatment. Alternatively, since you only have the rock and sand, hyposalinity would work very well for you and not cause any long term effects on inverts.

 

[Humblefish]

looked like when you walk in the water at the beach then walk back to your towel. a lot of specs. They were on his pec fins also... not now.

Sounds like velvet: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

 

[4FordFamily]

Sounds like velvet: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/

I agree, it does :/

 

[Sistawolf]

Listen to these guys for sure... @Humblefish @4FordFamily @melypr1985 KNOW what they are talking about!

 

[Ubergroover]

UPDATE:
I decided to wait on the meds. Its been a week now and every fish in the tank is healthy. The kole tang is happily eating seaweed and has zero spots. No fish is had or developing spots. Maybe I jumped the gun and it was only sand stuck to him. IDK. However I would like to thank all the replies. Thank you.