Do my yellow tang has ich?

Aquarist2011 · 09/23/2011, 03:58 PM

Hi guys maybe someone here could help me with my new yellow tang, I am not sure if he have ICH or not.

I have been reading this forum for a while but I never posted before, this is a great forum with a lot of people with good knowledge about this hobby.
In my tank I have assorted corals mostly sps, a flasher wrasse (trio), a pair of clownfish and a 10 Inches derasa clam.

Well my friend had this yellow tang in his JBJ nanocube for two years, but when this guy became too big for his nanocube he placed it for sale.

I bought it two months ago and I asked him to not introduce anything new to his tanks in these two months he did not introduce anything new.

Two days ago I went to his home to got my new tang we had a hard time catching him but after some time we did it, I place him in a black bag and when I went into my home I drip acclimated him for an hour and after that I released him in my tank with the lights off and after another hour I turn the lights on, the first thing I noticed was millions of ich like white spots at his fins, body, etc.

Here is my first question how could this happen? In a few hours!!!! he was perfectly at my friend’s home and after reach my home he was looking like the worst ich infestation.

Well I went up my temperature to 82F I bought ich attack (on of those reefsafe medicines that most of the time doesn’t work) and turn off my skimmer (the instructions of the medicine say I have to) well as far as I have been reading this medicine is really hard on the parameters I am running rowaphos like I always do I hope it does not have a major impact on my SPS.
Well I went to my tank one hour after the lights was off and this guy still had the with spots, I check on him at the mid night and at 3 am and the spots was there and the next day (yesterday) he had the spots all the day (at the same place) and all the night. As far as I know this is not the way the Ich acts so now I have my doubts if he has ich or not.

Today when I left my home the spots were there but there is less spots something like the 50%.

He is so unfriendly now, when he was at my friends home I feed him and he was so friendly but now every time he looked at me he swim to the rock work, he is not eating his Nory he ate his pellets but just a few and he is annoying my clam and he lived with a crocera clam and he never looked at it but in my tank he is annoying my derasa Is like he is another fish.

Well my first concern Is the Ich the spots look like ich I have been looking picture of ich around the internet and definitely It look like ich, but there is a chance is only stress? I mean the spots are at the same place and they did not disappear for two days in a row and as far as I have been reading the ich appears in the day and disappear at the night and the spots have to move from some place to another, and how a perfectly healthy tang (for two years and without contact with anything new) developed this Ich case in a few hours? Am I overreacting and maybe is just stress and stress discoloration?

Thanks a lot people any help is going to be appreciated

Aquarist2011 · 09/23/2011, 04:19 PM

By the way he is not scrathing at all thanks a lot for any help

b0bab0ey · 09/23/2011, 11:28 PM

What you are probably seeing is the Ich "Tomites" (I call them eggs). This is just one stage of the Ich life cycle and the only one that's visible to the naked eye. Meaning, if this is Ich, your Tang had it when he was still in your buddy's tank. Might have had it for months but his immune system was able to keep it at bay. Well, the move to a new tank has stressed him, lowered his immune system and the Ich found an opportunity to attack.

Only thing you can do is QT the Tang (and everything else in the tank), and treat with either copper or hypo. Anything else is just going to prolong this. Btw, here's a good article explaining the Ich life cycle:

http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/ich...hlifecycle.htm

09/23/2011, 03:58 PM	#1
Aquarist2011 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 2	Do my yellow tang has ich? Hi guys maybe someone here could help me with my new yellow tang, I am not sure if he have ICH or not. I have been reading this forum for a while but I never posted before, this is a great forum with a lot of people with good knowledge about this hobby. In my tank I have assorted corals mostly sps, a flasher wrasse (trio), a pair of clownfish and a 10 Inches derasa clam. Well my friend had this yellow tang in his JBJ nanocube for two years, but when this guy became too big for his nanocube he placed it for sale. I bought it two months ago and I asked him to not introduce anything new to his tanks in these two months he did not introduce anything new. Two days ago I went to his home to got my new tang we had a hard time catching him but after some time we did it, I place him in a black bag and when I went into my home I drip acclimated him for an hour and after that I released him in my tank with the lights off and after another hour I turn the lights on, the first thing I noticed was millions of ich like white spots at his fins, body, etc. Here is my first question how could this happen? In a few hours!!!! he was perfectly at my friend’s home and after reach my home he was looking like the worst ich infestation. Well I went up my temperature to 82F I bought ich attack (on of those reefsafe medicines that most of the time doesn’t work) and turn off my skimmer (the instructions of the medicine say I have to) well as far as I have been reading this medicine is really hard on the parameters I am running rowaphos like I always do I hope it does not have a major impact on my SPS. Well I went to my tank one hour after the lights was off and this guy still had the with spots, I check on him at the mid night and at 3 am and the spots was there and the next day (yesterday) he had the spots all the day (at the same place) and all the night. As far as I know this is not the way the Ich acts so now I have my doubts if he has ich or not. Today when I left my home the spots were there but there is less spots something like the 50%. He is so unfriendly now, when he was at my friends home I feed him and he was so friendly but now every time he looked at me he swim to the rock work, he is not eating his Nory he ate his pellets but just a few and he is annoying my clam and he lived with a crocera clam and he never looked at it but in my tank he is annoying my derasa Is like he is another fish. Well my first concern Is the Ich the spots look like ich I have been looking picture of ich around the internet and definitely It look like ich, but there is a chance is only stress? I mean the spots are at the same place and they did not disappear for two days in a row and as far as I have been reading the ich appears in the day and disappear at the night and the spots have to move from some place to another, and how a perfectly healthy tang (for two years and without contact with anything new) developed this Ich case in a few hours? Am I overreacting and maybe is just stress and stress discoloration? Thanks a lot people any help is going to be appreciated

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09/23/2011, 04:19 PM	#2
Aquarist2011 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 2	By the way he is not scrathing at all thanks a lot for any help

09/23/2011, 11:28 PM	#3
b0bab0ey Moved On Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,564	What you are probably seeing is the Ich "Tomites" (I call them eggs). This is just one stage of the Ich life cycle and the only one that's visible to the naked eye. Meaning, if this is Ich, your Tang had it when he was still in your buddy's tank. Might have had it for months but his immune system was able to keep it at bay. Well, the move to a new tank has stressed him, lowered his immune system and the Ich found an opportunity to attack. Only thing you can do is QT the Tang (and everything else in the tank), and treat with either copper or hypo. Anything else is just going to prolong this. Btw, here's a good article explaining the Ich life cycle: http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/ich...hlifecycle.htm