Lympho on my Achilles Tang

[Smprc]

The situation. I have a 20g QT tank that all my arrivals go in. It is NOT medicated. I do not treat prophylactically. I treat as I see. I hold my new additions for a minimum of 30 days as I observe them, get used to their behavior, give them time to acclimate and they learn to eat what I feed the main tank.

The question is my tang has lympho. Its been in the QT tank for over 45 days, I've been waiting for the lympho to resolve. He has one small "lump" left on one of the pec fins. He did have others that resolved.

Question, should I keep waiting until I visible do not notice any other "lumps"? And if I keep waiting, how long is too long too wait?

Guess I am running out of patience, plus I don't like that the tang is in a small tank.

 

[UltraKelius]

The situation. I have a 20g QT tank that all my arrivals go in. It is NOT medicated. I do not treat prophylactically. I treat as I see. I hold my new additions for a minimum of 30 days as I observe them, get used to their behavior, give them time to acclimate and they learn to eat what I feed the main tank.

The question is my tang has lympho. Its been in the QT tank for over 45 days, I've been waiting for the lympho to resolve. He has one small "lump" left on one of the pec fins. He did have others that resolved.

Question, should I keep waiting until I visible do not notice any other "lumps"? And if I keep waiting, how long is too long too wait?

Guess I am running out of patience, plus I don't like that the tang is in a small tank.

Lymph can take months. Try adding Selcon to food, soak for a bit before feeding. Then just ensure you keep stressors to a minimum. It’s just a waiting game.

 

[lion king]

I had a male blue throat trigger with lymph, when I moved him from qt, I scraped them off with my fingernail. If you are concerned about it spreading, I'm not sure if it works that way, he was in a community tank for close to 10 years before I gave him away, and no one else in the tank ever got it. Over 10 year times it may have popped up a couple of times then went away. Water quality but more importantly stress may be the biggest factor, and a good diet is a given. He seemed be bickering with someone when it did show up, that's why I think stress is the main contributing factor. I think it is important to move him from a small tank as soon as you deem him healthy, lowering his stress level will aid in the lymph going dormant.. Gently hold him in your hand and either use your fingernail or a smooth edged tool and scrape it off, being on his pec fin it should be easy. They do come right off with very little effort,

 

[Smprc]

Thanks you both for the response. I was thinking of scraping it off as well. I haven't seen it in the other tanks inhabitants. But I have put fish into my DT that have "recovered" from visible lymph lesions and as I said, I have not seen any other fish get them.

 

[i cant think]

Honestly, imho I would get the tang into the main DT since I doubt he could be happy in that size tank for over 45 days. That might be why he got limpho is from the stress of being in that tank for so long.

 

[UltraKelius]

I think you’re right, the sooner he gets into his everyday routine in DT the better and the quicker it will resolve. As long as he’s showing no other obvious signs of any other Illness I doubt he’s going to pass anything to your other fish after 45 days.