Help with purple tang.

[Johnpaul86]

Unlikely to be worms after this amount of time in your tank, but even if it is, you can mostly balance that with increased meaty items in the diet.
Jay

Thanks for your lhelp Jay. I will still get back with her breathing when I can.

 

[Johnpaul86]

Yes - posting to YouTube works well for videos. For a fish like that, I would expect it to breath less than 80 beats per minute. One easy way to count that is to video the fish, then play back the video and count the number of breaths in a time frame (say 10 seconds) and then multiply it out for 60 seconds. Do that a few times and average the results. Anything more than 100 gill beats is likely to be an issue.

Jay

So I counted the gill beats and get about 12-16 gill beats in 10 seconds so that ranges from 72 to 96 per 60 seconds.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

So I counted the gill beats and get about 12-16 gill beats in 10 seconds so that ranges from 72 to 96 per 60 seconds.

That isn't very fast. I would estimate that 75 BPM is normal for that fish. This helps rule out gill parasites and systemic infections.

Jay

 

[RonSwanson]

start velvet treatment
fish might die sooner than later

Velvet it is...lost 3 tangs, copperband and the 6 other fish a holding by the thread in copper. It’s exhausting to do tank transfers, peroxide and methylene blue baths. I hope never to deal with velvet ever again.