Tang is not eating
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Also, does the tang seem to be hiding from the lighting? Swimming into the flow of your powerheads? Have your fish ever been treated for flukes?
Almost anything "wet" can bring encysted ich or velvet tomonts along with. Velvet sometimes attacks the fish's gills without much in the way of external symptoms. Spots from ich or velvet can be easier to observe under blue lighting - have you looked at the tang under that sort of lighting?
~Bruce
Also, does the tang seem to be hiding from the lighting? Swimming into the flow of your powerheads? Have your fish ever been treated for flukes?
Almost anything "wet" can bring encysted ich or velvet tomonts along with. Velvet sometimes attacks the fish's gills without much in the way of external symptoms. Spots from ich or velvet can be easier to observe under blue lighting - have you looked at the tang under that sort of lighting?
~Bruce
The tang does seem to be hiding a little from the light but he mostly just sits in the back corner of the tank. He has not been swimming into the currents. The fish have not been treated with fluke.
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Hiding from light is a symptom of velvet, but you say you’ve not added any inverts, fish, or anything “wet” in the past two months?
Did you ever notice any white, stringy poop?
Did you ever notice any white, stringy poop?
It is entirely possible for either ich, velvet or both, in their encysted "tomont" form, to ride into a tank on the shell of a shrimp, a rock, a frag-plug, a coral skeleton ... a great many things, really. The tomonts, stuck to most hard surfaces, will burst open - each one releasing up to a few hundred "hunter-killer" daughter cells, called theronts (ich) or dinospores (velvet).
Below are a couple of concise articles on ich and velvet, by Humblefish. Treatment is similar for both, but given velvet's often swift progression, time is not your friend. You'll need to move quickly.
Ich: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/#post-2192627
Velvet: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/#post-2499399
~Bruce
Below are a couple of concise articles on ich and velvet, by Humblefish. Treatment is similar for both, but given velvet's often swift progression, time is not your friend. You'll need to move quickly.
Ich: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ich-cryptocaryon-irritans.191226/#post-2192627
Velvet: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/#post-2499399
~Bruce
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If it is velvet, all of your fish are at extreme risk. Velvet is rampant in the aquarium industry.
Not yet.
If you've got ich or velvet in your display tank, it's only a matter of time before they do.
In the case of ich, you may be able to "manage" the disease through good food, pristine water and low stress. There will be some fish who never adapt in an "ich management" tank, such as achilles and powderblue tangs. In the case of velvet, management of the disease in the display becomes very unlikely.
If you'd like to eradicate the disease from your tank, you'll want to pull _all_ of the fish for treatment with copper or Chloroquine Phosphate (CP) in a quarantine tank, and keep them out of the display for six weeks (velvet) to 76 days (ich).
~Bruce
If you've got ich or velvet in your display tank, it's only a matter of time before they do.
In the case of ich, you may be able to "manage" the disease through good food, pristine water and low stress. There will be some fish who never adapt in an "ich management" tank, such as achilles and powderblue tangs. In the case of velvet, management of the disease in the display becomes very unlikely.
If you'd like to eradicate the disease from your tank, you'll want to pull _all_ of the fish for treatment with copper or Chloroquine Phosphate (CP) in a quarantine tank, and keep them out of the display for six weeks (velvet) to 76 days (ich).
~Bruce
