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10-07-2007, 10:23 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North Carolina Age: 38
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    |  White Blotches on my Tang-Help!
I've had a marine reef tank for about 3 months. Have added some live rock, and tried a few different fishes. All that have survived at this point are a clown (who is doing REALLY well) and a Sailfin Tang we bought about a week ago.
The Last night I noticed some white blotches on the Sailfin Tang, and woke up this morning and there were more and it now has blotches on its fins.
It looks too large to be marine ich, as they are blotches and not dots. I've attached a picture to help. It's not the best picture, but you can see the blotches.
I moved him to my hospital tank I now have set-up. Added Maracyn-2 and Copper Safe to the tank.
Any help identifying the problem or help with a cure would be most appreciated! | 
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10-07-2007, 10:25 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Looks more like scrapes and scratches to me. Has the clown been picking on the tang? | 
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10-07-2007, 10:28 AM
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| | Fire Worm
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Not at all. I think it's more than that, as it is spreading and it's on his pectoral fins now and it wasn't yesterday. _________ Tank: 75g glass, AquaC Remora, Eheim Ecco Canister filter, Odyssea (2x250W MH, 4x65W actinics, 6 LEDs), 80lbs of live rock
Critters: 2 false percula clowns, blue damsel, lawnmower blenny, squirrel fish, 2 anthias, flame hawkfish, copper banded butterfly, coral banded shrimp, cleaner shrimp, fighting conch, condy anemone, and lots of misc snails
Corals: Green stripe mushrooms, blue mushrooms, candy cane, frogspawn, Green Zoanthids, star polyps, acropora, monipora
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10-07-2007, 10:38 AM
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| | Zoanthid
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I know from time to time my Kole Tang will be a little scuffed up from darting in and out of the rock. They love fitting through tight spots in the rock, on their endless hunt for algae. It usually clears up in a couple of hours _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
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10-07-2007, 10:38 AM
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What are all of your water parameters. Nitrates, Nitrites, and Ammonia?
J | |
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10-07-2007, 10:51 AM
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| | Fire Worm
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Originally Posted by Jason McKenzie  What are all of your water parameters. Nitrates, Nitrites, and Ammonia?
J | They are all good. I check them every other day. Nitrate, Nitrites, and Ammonia all pretty much 0. PH is 8.3. | |
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10-07-2007, 11:06 AM
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| | Zoanthid
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It's probably scrapes from rockwork, mine got them all the time, even it's eye. Just watch the fish in the hospital tank, if it progresses then it's not scrapes. _________ 20g
25lbs LR
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rio nano skimmer FISH: blk/white clown, damsel, yellow watchman goby CORAL: grn open brain, acan, torch, rics, toadstool, zoo's
INVERT:[/u] hermits, nassarius, astrea, turbo's, nerites, crocea clam
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10-07-2007, 11:33 AM
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| | Giant Squid
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Looks like parasites. Looks almost identicle to what my tang had. It had parasitic isopods.
What happened to the other fish that didnt survive??? _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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10-07-2007, 12:14 PM
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| | Fire Worm
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Originally Posted by geekdafied Looks like parasites. Looks almost identical to what my tang had. It had parasitic isopods.
What happened to the other fish that didnt survive??? | Well a few died due to the cycling process...damsels.
Blue Tang, and High Hat died due to marine ich. I was stupid and put cold water in the tank not knowing it would hurt the fish 
Had a clown just die the day after I brought it home...not sure why.
So, assuming maybe that is what it is, Copper the best remedy? | |
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10-07-2007, 01:21 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Soak your food you give the tangs in Vit C or garlic and it will help. I hope to God you didn't have that Tang in your tank while you was cycling it?  You mentioned you lost a few during cycling... Shouldn't be adding fish until that is done.
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