Naso Tang not eating

[4FordFamily]

Update on the tang
I had tied brown nori and red nori to 2 small rocks respectively, and left it there the tang automatically started pecking first at brown nori after 2 days. Now the tang eats nori, and has eaten both nori.
Isnt touching any kind of frozen food or live brine shrimp and i aint feeding those now, when its eating nori.

As for the ich and black ich part, i treated this fish for prazipro and cupramine right away at 0.5, didnt dose next batch of prazi, instead dosed seachem metroplex directly in water. The fish was having intestinal worms as it excreted only once completely white stringy poop.
So i continued dosing metroplex in water every 48hrs, the fish is now eating, havent noticed if it still has intestinal worms.
It doesnt have ich now, but will complete full 16 day treatment of cupramine.
Dont know about black ich, it is not present on the fish at the moment.
Plus i am not much concerned about the black ich, as when ill transfer this fish in DT, i have 3 halichoeres wrasse, someone will munch on these black ich for sure.

Special thanks to @4FordFamily for the idea of tying the nori to the rock, it worked like a charm. And thanks to all of you for all your inputs, great community.

Fantastic! It can sustain in nori for months, alone, typically. It’s got time to get healthy and recover to be interested in other food offerings.

 

[Utkarsh]

Dang i guess i got lucky on my blonde naso.. day one he ate even after he got ich. He eats so much nori and flakes ill feed him like 5x a day and hell still eat.. he even eats other fishes poo when they poo nori flakes.. its gross lol.

The fish i have a imppssoble time to get to eat are kole tangs and tomini tangs. They just want to eat stuff on the rocks or glass.

Also i suggest you never use prazopro on the naso tang. I did once for what looked like black ich.. and he bloated 2x his normal size and stopped eating.. it look lile his anal area was coming out of his body too from the bloating.. i immediatly put him in a different tank and he thankfully went back to normal.. ive read this online of other ppl having the same issue.

The black dots are just from where the ich cysts fell off.


If he actually has black icj.. just do hyposalinity.. my tang handled hypo all the way down to 1.007 for a month.. Hypo will kill black ich it will also kill most flukes as well as normal ich

I guess i got lucky then, for me prazipro and cupramine have always worked like a charm on almost all the fish.
As soon as i treated the naso with prazipro it started to excrete white stringy poo, so didnt dose another batch of prazipro, used metroplex to treat internal worms, the tang is now eating so i guess it worked. Gotta check how its excreting now.

This is the only tang that gave me problem of not eating, else had got juvenile kole and purple tang together, they were best of buddies from qt to dt, both would hangout together and eat anything and everything. Same was with my whitecheek tang but lost both kole and whitecheek tang, to a bad refractometer which resulted in me mixing very high amounts of salt during water change. Alk rise killed 500$ worth of corals and few fish now i have shifted to digital refractometer from Hanna. Still have my purple tang.