Help, what is this on my naso head?

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I notice his head/face have a clear/white stuff growing slowly. Can someone identify what might cause it? I've move him into 20gal qt tank.

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He's still eating like a pig and swimming normal. He's been having the cloudy eye and white patch on his head for 10 days or so.
 
to be safe, you can also try a combo that has metronidazole and feed with a prazipro infused food. I should have mentioned that too.
I have something called a triple cure and quad parasite food. Works great. Everything Aquatic sells it and makes it all fresh so in date and good.
 
Here's a video of him. I qt him with prazipro last night. Should I do a fresh water change and use antibiotic instead? Thanks for all the help
 

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Definitely has an infection with that eye. You can keep the prazipro dosing as you began, but do a course of antibiotics. If not change in 7 days, maybe try a fungal course.
Looks good and healthy, so should be fine through the courses.
 
Oh, I would keep live rock in there for him to pick on. No need for sterile qt. Antibiotics will kill some bacteria, but should not be a huge problem. I have done this in the past with no issues and ammonia stays under control.
 
Oh, I would keep live rock in there for him to pick on. No need for sterile qt. Antibiotics will kill some bacteria, but should not be a huge problem. I have done this in the past with no issues and ammonia stays under control.

I pulled those rocks out of DT last night since I don't have an extra hob filter. Hoping those rocks provide enough benificial bacteria to combat ammonia spike. It's my first time treating a fish in a qt tank btw.
 
Bacterial infections are usually "secondary" to some other primary cause. With tangs, sometimes they injure themselves when the wedge into or against rocks to sleep at night. Also see this from shipping injury as the fish rub up against the bags, etc. while traveling. Very common to see infections pop up in the areas like those on your fish. But usually the fish's immune system can handle the scrape/injury. Need to boost your fish's immune system. Adding vitamins to the food is a good step. Red nori has a bit more vitamins than the green varieties. To the other foods adding vitamins like selcon, zoecon, vitachem are good, but I'm really liking adding Beta Glucan to my fish food mix. It tremendously boosts the fish's immune system. Highly recommend BG.
For infections in the head/face area have had very good results with Sulfaplex (aka Triple Sulfa) + Neoplex. For eye infections, erythromycin is the best. Remember antibiotics don't cure anything. They just help give your fish's immune system "time" to fight off the infection and heal. So great water quality, excellent high quality foods, and low stress environment will all work together to help your tang to heal itself.
 
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24 hour after using kanamycin medine. Right side of his face have black spots. Is it the effect of the medicine?

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Those almost look like bites to me. Any aggression before the eye got cloudy?
 
Could just be healing or coloration, but eye and sores do look better. Keep up the meds for the full course (unless something drastic happens of course).
 

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