I noticed white spots and some very small air bubbles on my yellow tangs this morning. This is a 30gal tank with 25 lbs of live rock. The only other fish in the tank is a blackpatch trigger that looks fine. The water tests OK. Should I put the tangs in a quarantine tank and what is the best thing to treat them with? I'm just getting back into salt after 25 years with no fish.
Yellow Tang Ick
- Thread starter rjgreen
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Put all the fish in a quarantine tank and treat them together, and keep them there for a month. For these fish 30 gallons is realistically a quarantine tank. Note that using copper in your tank will pretty much trash the live rock. Make sure the tangs get a good diet, lots of greens else their recovery/resistance will be lowered.
I hate to say this, but that 30g is waaaaayyyyyyy too small for your yellow tangs (how many?) and a trigger. Even if you manage to get rid of the ick with medication, it will return again and again as the fish will be constantly stressed by a too small tank. Yellow tangs are very territorial and should be kept only one to a tank (unless you have a huge tank, like 300g or larger) and just about ALL triggers will become extremely aggressive as they mature and will kill just about everything in their tank.
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