white spot or rash on hippo tang
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Like the others said, likely just a scrape, perhaps due to ich. Do you have a plan to treat that? I see enough spots to think it could become an acute case pretty soon....
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That white spot has gone but I am feeding them a combination of metroplex with focus and vita chem and selcon. I never have success with QT so dealing it by feeding them mysis nori sheets with all these meds.
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I agree on scratch and likely no need to unnecessarily medicate Unless infected. Saltwater fish have the ability to heal quickly.
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O.K., but please watch the number of ich trophonts very carefully, it really appears they are on the cusp of becoming acute, and if that happens, diet and environmental controls won’t be sufficient to fight off the propagule pressure from all of the tomites
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Hippo tangs get that. I don't know why but I have been keeping them from the 70s and quite a few of therm had that. It always goes away. Maybe it's the heartbreak of psoriasis, I really don't know but mine is fine now and that was over a year ago, maybe two. 
But in most cases, you are better off leaving the fish alone. The hippo's that are treated for those silly things, are now dead hippo's.
Notice the spot over his head?
But in most cases, you are better off leaving the fish alone. The hippo's that are treated for those silly things, are now dead hippo's.
Notice the spot over his head?
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Paul, IDK, I can see 30+ trophonts on just the one side of the fish, mostly in the black portion, so there is bound to be more that aren’t visible. Unless those are artifacts of the photo, that fish is on the cusp of having geometric progression take over. If that happens, the Cryptocaryon is going to need to be treated.Hippo tangs get that. I don't know why but I have been keeping them from the 70s and quite a few of therm had that. It always goes away. Maybe it's the heartbreak of psoriasis, I really don't know but mine is fine now and that was over a year ago, maybe two.
But in most cases, you are better off leaving the fish alone. The hippo's that are treated for those silly things, are now dead hippo's.
Notice the spot over his head?
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Jay, you are correct. I was just talking about that white spot. I thought the glass was dirty. 
In the picture I posted, It looks like mine has spots, but it is bubbles, Unless I am getting cataracts.
Mine doesn't have any blemishes on it except that white spot that cleared in a few days.
I can't tell to much from the OP picture as either that fish looks horribly sick or the photo is giving us that image.
It's fins are clamped and he looks to have cloudy eyes, but we need a clearer picture because even the corals look whitish.
I don't know how old the tank is or what that fish is being fed but I am almost totally against medicating fish because I feel they should never get sick in the first place. It also rarely fares well for the fish.
If they do get sick, the tank is to new, the fish is under stress or it isn't fed correctly. (It is also in a too small tank for that fish)
IMO if a fish gets sick, it is totally our fault and it could have been prevented.
If that fish is medicated and cured, then put back into that tank, whatever made it sick in the first place will do it again.
But I would need more information as I am guessing from a bad picture.
In the picture I posted, It looks like mine has spots, but it is bubbles, Unless I am getting cataracts.
Mine doesn't have any blemishes on it except that white spot that cleared in a few days.
I can't tell to much from the OP picture as either that fish looks horribly sick or the photo is giving us that image.
It's fins are clamped and he looks to have cloudy eyes, but we need a clearer picture because even the corals look whitish.
I don't know how old the tank is or what that fish is being fed but I am almost totally against medicating fish because I feel they should never get sick in the first place. It also rarely fares well for the fish.
If they do get sick, the tank is to new, the fish is under stress or it isn't fed correctly. (It is also in a too small tank for that fish)
IMO if a fish gets sick, it is totally our fault and it could have been prevented.
If that fish is medicated and cured, then put back into that tank, whatever made it sick in the first place will do it again.
But I would need more information as I am guessing from a bad picture.
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It will reduce the theronts/tomites, but will do nothing for the trophonts on the skin. UV can be used to control ich going from one enclosure to another, but only shows partial control when used in side stream like this (referenced in Noga 2010). It’s all about the math- if ich is being managed, and the propagule pressure from the theronts is relatively low, UV is a great adjunct therapy. Once the prop pressure reaches a certain level, enough are missed by the UV to create an acute infection.
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