New blue tang has scrape / wound

[Tjk]

I picked up a blue tang and yellow tang last night and seemed healthy. The blue tang was eating right after drip acclamation. This morning was up against cleaner shrimp and noticed a large scrape on his side. Is there anything i can do so scrape isn’t infected? If he has ich what is the recommended treatment ? He is swimming around and eating just fine still.

Hes in a 40 gallon (plenty of hiding spots) then will be transferred to my 125 in a few weeks after he gets better.

currently have :
Inverts: cleaner shrimp, a few hermit crabs, sand sifting star, 3 cleaner clams, narsarius snail,

Fish: yellow head goby, 2 mandarin gobys and the yellow tang all of wich can be moved to my bigger tank if needed.

Thanks!

 

[Big G]

Tangs sometimes get those scrapes when they wedge themselves into the rocks to sleep at night. Usually not a problem. But watch the area for redness, darkening, or the development of a white-ish film.

 

[Tjk]

Thanks. What do i do if it becomes infected?

 

[Big G]

Feeding high quality foods with some vitamins added like Selcon, Zoecon, Vita-Chem, and this can really help, Beta Glucan.

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And then there are antibiotics. Here's a link:

Antibiotics

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[Tjk]

Thanks!