Spots on blue tang’s face

[shooter2377]

Ok, so I have a small blue tang I have had for about a month or a little longer. I’ve always noticed little spots on her face, but noticed tonight that there seems to be quite a few more than lately. She has a voracious appetite, (I love feeding time with her, she goes crazy!) in the tank I have also I have two clownfish and a court jester gift I got today. All the fish seem to be doing great! Also a shrimp, crab and hermit crabs and snails. Parameter seem good, although I have been barreling cyano bacteria lately. Any thoughts?

 

[Goaway]

Hole in the head Lateral line erosion.

 

[shooter2377]

Ok, I see it can be caused by multiple factors. I’ve been running carbon up till this week, diet is somewhat varied, mostly frozen music shrimp and goby berries (or something like that)

Is this contagious?

treatment options?

 

[Goaway]

Not contagious. But get him some dried nori (seaweed) . Not seasoned.
I know angelfish get hlle with poor carbon quality.
I can't say for tangs. There's a lot of factors to take in with hlle.
Edit: treatment is proper diet and water quality

 

[shooter2377]

I offer nori and sea lettuce I believe, and never touches it! Anything I can do to tempt him to eating that?

 

[Goaway]

Tear it up and thaw some mysis on it. The smell of the mysis should tempt him|her to go after it.
How many lbs of live rock do you have?

 

[shooter2377]

I have about 50 lbs live rock in a 55 gallon tank (I’m in the process of upgrading to a 125 gallon tank in the next week or two)

 

[Goaway]

Remove carbon, mix the torn up nori with the mysis. He'll adapt. I'm not the tang police. He's still a small guy. You are probably going to have to get a high quality flake food for veggie eaters as well. He's lacking nutrition. And From what I just read, carbon affects tangs and angels the same way. Its weird.

Edit: he should be hanging out in the live rock, not with the clowns. But I'm no expert.

 

[Rmckoy]

I’ve read somewhere the dust from carbon is the main cause .
along with insufficient diet

 

[Goaway]

We have signs of stress, carbon and he's not eating nori.

I say stress because he's cuddling a corner with clown fish.

 

[shooter2377]

He does have a little hidey hole in the rocks he goes in, and has always kinda hung out in that corner, in fact all the fish seem to hang out in that corner, I rarely see any on them on the other side of the tank.

I soaked some nori in shrimp juice, we’ll see if that helps any

 

[Goaway]

Is that where you drop all the food? Could be why they like that spot.