Sick Of Guessing, Video Added. 04/20.

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  1. RedGambit

    RedGambit Giant Squid

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    So As a few of you know Ive been struggling with random diseases in the tank. And honestly Im getting sick on guessing this one. My Purple tang Gizmo has been ill for about 2 weeks now.(where as the rest get something and die within hours to days) He has a cloudy look to him, Sometimes colorful, sometimes pale during the day. Now I get the ich, However do you guys feel this is velvet or a bacterial infection of some sort?

    No scratching, Hes abusing the cleaning services of the shrimp and wrasse(which Ive never seen the wrasse go in the gills before.) He does eat, But Very little. Tried to pull him out to treat him somehow. However I cant catch the fish worth a crap. Still vigorous.

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  2. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    try dosing your tank with epsom salts...my orange shoulder responded well to that, and he is eating again, and the cloudiness in his eye went away...he is still thin but i'm hoping he is on an upward swing....1tsp food grade epsom salts per 10g.
     
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  3. RedGambit

    RedGambit Giant Squid

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    Never heard of that, I will have to see who has some.
     
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    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    Walgreens sells the food grade stuff.....my guy at my trusty LFS told me about it...he has been doing this a LOT longer than me, so i trusted him, and i'll be damned if things didnt turn around the next day...cloudiness was gone, and he was swallowing food
     
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  5. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    Wow never heard that either.
     
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  6. RedGambit

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    Ah we have a walgreens not to far from here. Will have to go get some ... The cloudyness I think is affecting his eating habbits. the cloudier it is the less he eats and vice versa.
     
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  7. Kevin3884

    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    when you go to get it...just read the back of it...if it has instructions on how to relieve constipation with it....you know its food grade if it doesnt specifically say "food grade".. :)
     
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    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    Epsom salt is just Magnesium Sulfate....so it will raise the Mg level in ur tank a little....but it did honestly work for my tang...just stick to the 1tsp per 10G and do a water change in a few days and u'll be fine...no ill effects on my tank at all
     
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    Kevin3884 Tassled File Fish

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    Go now...no time for this computer business...save that tang! RUN! (well drive, but u get the idea)
     
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  10. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    Eric, I had the same thing happen to my tang when his HLLE was bad. If you can't see you can't eat! Selcon worked for me.
     
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