Injured Yellow Tang

[JSK]

Hi everyone,

I’ve had an outbreak in my tank of ich so I have pulled my fish out and put them into QT. I’ve started a copper treatment and the concentration is about 0.3mg/l of cupramine right now.
I don’t really know what’s happened but when feeding my fish my yellow tang seems to have wedged itself accidentally behind my seachem ammonia badge just for a second, then it seemed to nose dive and then lay on the bottom of the tank. It got up shortly after but was swimming in circles and looked in pain. During the day it seemed to improve and looked okay and began eating normally again so I thought all was okay.
The next morning though he’s not eating and its struggling to swim normally and sometimes laying on the glass bottom, I’d assume he won’t make it. My other 3 fish look fine, I’m only ramping up the copper so should I just remove it in the hope that without it in the water he may have more of a chance of recovering?

Many thanks!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Can you post a picture taken under white light? How long have you been ramping up the copper? For active cases of ich, that trumps everything else and you really need to get the copper up to full strength right away. Pulling the YT that has ich from low dose copper isn't the way to go. Copper toxicity shows up only at full or overdose copper situations, so what you are currently seeing with the YT is due to something else....

Jay

 

[JSK]

Can you post a picture taken under white light? How long have you been ramping up the copper? For active cases of ich, that trumps everything else and you really need to get the copper up to full strength right away. Pulling the YT that has ich from low dose copper isn't the way to go. Copper toxicity shows up only at full or overdose copper situations, so what you are currently seeing with the YT is due to something else....

Jay

Unfortunately the tang has died this morning, so strange! He was fine and then the next minute just couldn’t swim properly yesterday and looked in pain. My clowns and gramma look good still though and eating like normal.
Such a shame, not really sure what’s happened here. Must have injured itself somehow.
Thank you for your response to me anyways.