Yellow Tang Breathing Heavily

[Master of Cloak]

I have a yellow tang in QT that has started breathing heavily. He has gone through 30 days of copper, doses of furan 2, metroplex and kanaplex, as well as two rounds of PraziPro. Clownfish seem to be fine as does the 1 bangaii cardinal I have.

Salinity: 34 PPT
Temp: 78 F
Ammonia: 0-0.25 according to sea chem badge

 

[Reef AquaCult]

I had a similar thing happen with a yellow tang. Can you send video? Any skin lesions? Eating? Active swimming? Mine appears to be resolving, not sure what happened

 

[Master of Cloak]

So I noticed it last night and dropped an air stone in. I will try to when the lights come on today.

 

[fl3xlinton]

Could be low oxygen or someone could be bothering him. Some clowns are demons or all the meds stressing him too.

 

[Master of Cloak]

Could be low oxygen or someone could be bothering him. Some clowns are demons or all the meds stressing him too.

Air stone was ran all of last night. Meds were done being dosed last week. I haven’t seen anyone bother him but maybe.

 

[Master of Cloak]

I had a similar thing happen with a yellow tang. Can you send video? Any skin lesions? Eating? Active swimming? Mine appears to be resolving, not sure what happened

He ate last night when I noticed it happening

 

[Master of Cloak]

Here is a video. Excuse the dirty glass

 

[Master of Cloak]

Saturday is supposed to be their last day in qt

 

[Master of Cloak]

Since the first one won’t open

 

[Reef AquaCult]

It looks fine to me. Just make sure you providing him good diet and he is eating.

 

[Miller535]

It looks fine to me. Just make sure you providing him good diet and he is eating.

Yeah, I didn't notice anything. I have a yellow tang that I have had for probably 7 years. He even had bad ich in my quaratine tank and survived. They are EXTREMELY hardy imo. The only times over the years that he looked stressed was when I wasn't feeding him enough. When he was stressed he would look like a ping pong ball bouncing all over the place, breathed heavy, and randomly hid. They need to eat often, and especially plant/algae matter. My yellow and hippo eat a sheet of NORI every day, as well as whatever I feed the tank that day. They are tremendously calmer now.

 

[Miller535]

And mine picks at algae ALL day in my dt. Which you don't have in a qt

 

[Master of Cloak]

Awesome. Thanks for the advice. I’ll make sure to drop a sheet in everyday before going to work

 

[fl3xlinton]

Air stone was ran all of last night. Meds were done being dosed last week. I haven’t seen anyone bother him but maybe.

Only thing I can think of is flukes or something bothering him. But I’m not as open minded as most folks on here so that’s why I’m an asker in most cases

 

[Master of Cloak]

Only thing I can think of is flukes or something bothering him. But I’m not as open minded as most folks on here so that’s why I’m an asker in most cases

Just did a 4 min fw dip. No signs of flukes

 

[NJDragonet]

He looks good maybe just stressed happens with all tangs I have a lavendar tang in qt showing the same signs as him

 

[vetteguy53081]

Just in case of flukes, give it a freshwater dip before placing in display tank Saturday

 

[Greg P]

Looks like you're doing all you can with the above advice - upping the oxygen and some nori.
I had to put my 5+ year old yellow through QT last fall after an injury. He didn't calm down until I completely removed all the meds with massive WCs and kept him very well fed.
Then his respiration returned to normal and I returned him to the DT