Temporary Tang White Spots

[certain_code]

Long story short, I was re-scaping my tank to get rid of some of the dead spots that were causing some Phosphate issues. In doing so, of course my fish were freaking out. I noticed my Tomini tang breathing very hard and was covered in white spots near the tail and a few in the middle of each side of her body.

I was worried about ich/white spot but less than 12 hours later and the spots are completely gone, she is breathing normally and grazing/eating as if nothing ever happened.

All things considered, what could this have been that was so temporary yet seemed to cause no near-death issues?

 

[thehammer1985]

With ich the spots (cysts) normally fall of during the ich cycle within 3-9 days. And breed in 18 hours they can remain in substrate for 3-28 days and than free float for up to 48 hours . I'd suggest keep an eye on him . He could've just been stressed from the move and had debris on him . To mini are generally pretty decent as it comes to tangs with ich. Just keep an eye out if necessary catch qt and treat

 

[Humblefish]

How large were the white spots? It could have just been stress spots. Or as mentioned above, the fish might have gotten debris or even sand stuck to it's mucous coat from you stirring things up.

 

[certain_code]

How large were the white spots? It could have just been stress spots. Or as mentioned above, the fish might have gotten debris or even sand stuck to it's mucous coat from you stirring things up.

The spits were about the size of an m&m on its body. They were not debris from what I could tell. Is there anything documented about stress spots in fish?

 

[thehammer1985]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/Submerged_RAG/naso1.jpg
Look at that for stress spots. Is he eating g9od? Rubbing against anything?

 

[certain_code]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/Submerged_RAG/naso1.jpg
Look at that for stress spots. Is he eating g9od? Rubbing against anything?

There were not nearly as consistent as that but pretty similar in size. No rubbing at all and eating fine even last night when he had them and this morning when he doesnt

 

[Humblefish]

The spits were about the size of an m&m on its body.

Too large to be ich or any other external parasite then. Look at the stress spot photo @thehammer1985 has provided. I'm betting that's all it was.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

With ich the spots (cysts) normally fall of during the ich cycle within 3-9 days. And breed in 18 hours they can remain in substrate for 3-28 days and than free float for up to 48 hours . I'd suggest keep an eye on him . He could've just been stressed from the move and had debris on him . To mini are generally pretty decent as it comes to tangs with ich. Just keep an eye out if necessary catch qt and treat

Question about this. If they can live without a host for 28 days, why then we you go fallow to eradicate ICH, must it be 72 days? I am just trying to better understand it.

 

[thehammer1985]

Due to lack of statistical analysis in marine tanks. Studies have been performed and when plotted on a graph shows equal distribution in the mean range at approximately 3 weeks however there's a certain amount of plot that show the infection in a lesser than or greater than area. So the 72 days follow. Would be an approximate 99.7% eradication of the infection.

 

[thehammer1985]

The basic breakdown that I had given earlier was essentially the mean in that grap