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dragonflylures · 12-01-2007, 06:13 AM

So I bought a powder blue tang from petco -- just arrived that day and looked really nice -- everything else in the tank looked disease free. This was on Tuesday -- my only other fish is a yellow tang, both fish medium size -- the yellow tang flared at him a couple of times but for the most part they get along. Well as of yesterday a few little spots have showed up on the powder blue (surprise, surprise).

After doing some more reading and previously trying other ich treatments I'm going with turning up the heat to 80 - 82 (currently around 7

and keep feeding garlic soaked food and veggie strips. He has barely touched any food I've feed (the yellow tang eats like mad) but he does graze on the rock all day (which is pretty much algea free) and he does eat on the veggie strips. He still looks beautiful and has about 4 spots on each side as of late last night..... did go to petco again to get veggie strips and a new food that has the spirulana and garlic in the food and looked at the fish that came in the same time as him..... THEY LOOK TERRIBLE compared to the powder blue.

The water quality in the tank is pristine, coral looks great, yellow tang looks great -- so.... I'm going with the healthy and pristine approach and creep the temp up a bit to see what happens. I just wish he was a better eater but his belly has filled a bit since he first arrived.

OH.. I did try and catch him last night and ALMOST had him to quaratine him but I think that could be a never ending rotation as he would go back in healthy get a little outbreak, stressed from the moves and etc so... I'm going with this. I'll keep you all posted if you care

12-01-2007, 06:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
dragonflylures Flamingo Tongue Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31 Posts: 107 Karma: 19	New experiment on ich So I bought a powder blue tang from petco -- just arrived that day and looked really nice -- everything else in the tank looked disease free. This was on Tuesday -- my only other fish is a yellow tang, both fish medium size -- the yellow tang flared at him a couple of times but for the most part they get along. Well as of yesterday a few little spots have showed up on the powder blue (surprise, surprise). After doing some more reading and previously trying other ich treatments I'm going with turning up the heat to 80 - 82 (currently around 7 and keep feeding garlic soaked food and veggie strips. He has barely touched any food I've feed (the yellow tang eats like mad) but he does graze on the rock all day (which is pretty much algea free) and he does eat on the veggie strips. He still looks beautiful and has about 4 spots on each side as of late last night..... did go to petco again to get veggie strips and a new food that has the spirulana and garlic in the food and looked at the fish that came in the same time as him..... THEY LOOK TERRIBLE compared to the powder blue. The water quality in the tank is pristine, coral looks great, yellow tang looks great -- so.... I'm going with the healthy and pristine approach and creep the temp up a bit to see what happens. I just wish he was a better eater but his belly has filled a bit since he first arrived. OH.. I did try and catch him last night and ALMOST had him to quaratine him but I think that could be a never ending rotation as he would go back in healthy get a little outbreak, stressed from the moves and etc so... I'm going with this. I'll keep you all posted if you care _________ 90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam, 6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs