My tank has a problem with Tangs

[Nic a Jon]

Hihi,

My specs:

Tank 2x2x2 ft ( 3month old) with sump via I-box

4 inch sand bed

10-12 kg LR

Weipro Skimmer

Amm 0, No2 0, NO3 10

Regular n gradual water change

Fishes: 2 small Ocellaris clown, 1 Black n White Percula clown, 1 3-spot Domino damsel, 1 fire goby, 1 panther grouper.

Inver: 2 cleaner and 1 boxing shrimp, 2 turbo snail

Problem: Tried introducing a Blue Tang 1 month ago. It got white spot after a week

Fed garlic soak food and chopped garlic. It recovered for a short while,

white spot came again. Tried FW dip but cud not save it.

Last week bot Yellow Tang . It got white spot after 4 days.

This time round I removed him to quarantine tank, dose white spot

medication and FW dip also but it didnt recover.

All this while the other fishes in the tank perfectly fine and healthy and did not get infected. What cud be the cause? How cud I have done to cure them.

Expert out there please advise

What could be the

[hoppinghippos]

when you intro fish, they usually bring with them disease from LFS tank. so if you don't quarrantine them but put them in, you actually bring disease into your own tank. snowball effect when you put in another fish cuz existing disease in your tank now add on to whatever the new fish oredi has. 2ft tank a bit small for certain tangs tho. your old fishes are healthy and can fight off the disease, but diseases like ich multiply thousandfold easily, so if you keep adding new fish and cultivate disease in your tank, old fish sure succumb sooner or later. anyway don't add any more new fishes for the moment, let your tank stabilize, do water change,etc. be on the lookout for old fishes falling sick.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Hihi,

My specs:

Tank 2x2x2 ft ( 3month old) with sump via I-box

4 inch sand bed

10-12 kg LR

Weipro Skimmer

Amm 0, No2 0, NO3 10

Regular n gradual water change

Fishes: 2 small Ocellaris clown, 1 Black n White Percula clown, 1 3-spot Domino damsel, 1 fire goby, 1 panther grouper.

Inver: 2 cleaner and 1 boxing shrimp, 2 turbo snail

Problem: Tried introducing a Blue Tang 1 month ago. It got white spot after a week

Fed garlic soak food and chopped garlic. It recovered for a short while,

white spot came again. Tried FW dip but cud not save it.

Last week bot Yellow Tang . It got white spot after 4 days.

This time round I removed him to quarantine tank, dose white spot

medication and FW dip also but it didnt recover.

All this while the other fishes in the tank perfectly fine and healthy and did not get infected. What cud be the cause? How cud I have done to cure them.

Expert out there please advise

What could be the

IMO with a tank of that size, you could not really keep even the smaller zebrasoma species of tangs much less to say a regal tang which can grow up to abt 1 feet. IMo give out the tang idea and look for smaller and more colourful fish.

Anyway once you panther get big enough, your shrimp will say bye bye to you.

[Nic a Jon]

Now the panther is about 1'' ...the moment it gets to about 2 to 3 times the size of my shrimp, I think I will put him into the frying pan ( to make grouper bilis) b4 he have my shrimp for dinner

[metals99]

u know blue tangs are white and ich magnets even in the lfs store i see them infected aready..

dun believe the lfs ppl they say will cure if your tank cond. is good blah blah blah then admit their tank water is not optimum that time.. when u intro also will get white spots

thats why experience reefers here who wanna get it would try to see available hippo to adopt a good species one from one fellow reefer here..

[mv3i]

that's a lot of fish in that tank !!!

[Nic a Jon]

hi hoppinghippos,

I did quarantine new fish for few days b4 intro to main tank.

Anyway the grouper, firegoby and damsel are relatively new about 1 month into the tank, but they are heathy..(for now , I guess).

My 2 ft cube tank contains about 155-160 litre of SW not inculding another 30 l

in the sump....is it still too small to keep small blue or YT?

[sjsheng]

Bro....

try put garlic in ur filter... let the water flow thru the garlic...

that what i learn from "ang mo"

no harm trying it rite?

[dradttg]

My blue tang gets ich all the time too at the beginning.

However, after since I have been feeling it brine shrimp soaked with crushed garlic everything. I have not seen any ich for at least 1 month.

[Dispar_Anthias]

My blue tang gets ich all the time too at the beginning.

However, after since I have been feeling it brine shrimp soaked with crushed garlic everything. I have not seen any ich for at least 1 month.

Blue tang get ich constantly and regularly thus there should be nothing to worry about unless the ich is very serious..... With close moninyoring and good water condition, there should be nothing to worry out.

[v-roy]

feeding gralic soaked food really work well all my fish i feed them they are free from ich, even got 1 time i intro a new fish with ich after feed it gralic soaked food it get well fast

[danano]

When your panther grouper gets a little larger, it may have the other fish for a meal. Groupers (even small ones) are known to eat fish half its size... whole.

Garlic soaked food works wonders. Besides dealing with ich, it seems to enhance the appetite of fish as well.

[cmswong]

HI,

If soaked garlic didn,t work.Try blend prawn meat with garlic guard.

It work for my power blue tang.My 2 cent advice.

[hoppinghippos]

hi hoppinghippos,

I did quarantine new fish for few days b4 intro to main tank.

Anyway the grouper, firegoby and damsel are relatively new about 1 month into the tank, but they are heathy..(for now , I guess).

My 2 ft cube tank contains about 155-160 litre of SW not inculding another 30 l

in the sump....is it still too small to keep small blue or YT?

quarrantine must be at least 2 weeks (got this time period from book), cuz you need some time for diseases to show, fish to regain its health, lose its stress, etc, I think a few days not enuff. but heh personally I also never QT, cuz no space nor cash to have QT tank.

[SpiderOne]

u know blue tangs are white and ich magnets even in the lfs store i see them infected aready..

dun believe the lfs ppl they say will cure if your tank cond. is good blah blah blah then admit their tank water is not optimum that time.. when u intro also will get white spots

thats why experience reefers here who wanna get it would try to see available hippo to adopt a good species one from one fellow reefer here..

in the LFS store. they just came out of a crowded plastic bag . Its true . LFS water is ot exactly optimum. look at some lfs . they dun even remove dead fish. and overcrowd badly. thats because they going to be sold soon. of course the water is not good. and of course some may have ich. With good water quality. of course it will go away.

When u intro u are immersing a fish into a totally different environment. Who wouldnt be stressed. even with proper acclimitisation its one of the more sensitive fish.

There is more to water quality than nitrite ammonia and nitrate man.

[sjsheng]

dunno why.. my tank just cant keep any tang....

everytime i keep 1 to 5 days will die... gt phobia keeping tang now...

other fish can survive for few months.. just the tang cant...

today i lose 1 damsel... 1 blue tang...

blue tang i just bought ytd...

dunno will spike other fish anot... stress...

[cool water]

My blue tang gets ich all the time too at the beginning.

However, after since I have been feeling it brine shrimp soaked with crushed garlic everything. I have not seen any ich for at least 1 month.

Hi:

Can advice the ratio?? THANKS

[dradttg]

Hi:

Can advice the ratio?? THANKS

I did not apply any ratio.

I just crush one garlic into a container and thraw my brine shrimp over the garlic.

When I need to feed the fishes, I would add some saltwater into the container and use a pipette to feed my fishes.

I would reuse my garlic for 2 days before replacing it with a new one.

[Dispar_Anthias]

When your panther grouper gets a little larger, it may have the other fish for a meal. Groupers (even small ones) are known to eat fish half its size... whole.

Garlic soaked food works wonders. Besides dealing with ich, it seems to enhance the appetite of fish as well.

Panther are one of the grouper that has smaller mouth but even so it is a big fish that can reach up to 75cm thus eating amost any tank mate you have is possible