White spots after introducing blue tang...

[Dennerle]

Hi guys

 

I need some help here

 

I just introduce a small blue tang..2cm in size

 

Thereafter..I notice white spots appearing on the blue tang and my old adult yellow tang also has white spots appearing.

 

Whereas the rest of fish so far no white spots.

 

1) when I got the blue tang..it was perfectly healthy. Why suddenly white spots appear?

 

2) will they self heal? If yes, what are the chances. All are feeding well as of now

 

3) I do not have a quarantine tank. How can I cure it? I know medication will affect my corals and shrimps

 

 

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[Kenjitan5285]

i m using poly medic. it work for me. reefsafe


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[dtdream]

Assuming the white spots on your fish is "Ich"..

1) LFS usually use therapeutic copper in their tanks. It suppresses white spots so you may not see it in the tank, but usually does not not kill it totally. Even other reefer's tank may have itch, but because fish is healthy, can fight it off.

2) Yep if your fish is healthy and no stress, should be strong enough to fight it off. But your tank will forever have white spot parasite unless you keep your tank fallow for something like 9 weeks? 

3) You can try polymedic as above. Most people says they are reefsafe, but I've read other forums not 100% success. Some use UV. Or both polymedic + UV together. Some people like to add "vitamins" to dip their food before feeding, eg. vitachem. Not sure if it really works, but at least shouldn't harm anything.

Ich is not so scary, just try to keep fishes healthy. Velvet on the other hand.. 

 

[mhcraft]

Yea..best wat is to treat with copper in QT tank. See humblefish post in reef2reef, he is a well respected guy in reef community.

 

Polylab will only help maintain it to a low number but ich will forever be in your DT unless u eradicate it properly

[Gongon78]

Tangs r itch magnets .

Introduce  a UV sterilizer.

It's helps to so -called sub-press the ich.As long as yr fishes is healthy,eating.The ich will go off.

It's works for me thou.

[Shyn]

Anyone know can I use GFO (af phosphate minus) during medic treatment? 
Can I do weekly 5-10% water change? 

I know it is cannot use carbon and ozone during the treatment, dunno GFO whether can use or not. 
 

Thank you.

[ReeferYC]

I have quite a few experiences with ich.. the best foolproof treatment is TTM which you really need a quarantine tank.. my clownfish and tang were saved from this.. feed them with nori with garlic, boost up their immunity, the ich will go away.. 

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/tank-transfer-method.192655/