Sick Fish - Next Steps?

[ErikH]

http://www.athiel.com/lib2/pguide/vitami1.html

I thought I had originally posted this but I guess I forgot! I would definitely double check your salinity as higher salinities make it easier for parasites to survive. I had a swing arm and my poor little bicolor got popeye. It was 9 points higher than it should have been.

Jim, might you have an article? I would love to read about it.

Running carbon is easy, what kind of filtration do you have? Most people use a filtersock and put some activated carbon in it, which can be found at any fish store.

Holy cow, after re-reading your first post, you are probably dealing with pop eye on your angel.

You are probably dealing with a salinity issue here, if I could make a speculative guess.

Take some water to a store and have them double check it.

[Kristy]

As Ray mentioned, if it is ich you are dealing with, then that is generally brought on by stress or water parameters. Assuming that your water is not the issue (since the parameters look good but good idea to have LFS double check them) another thought on what might be stressful to the fish is that you have two similar looking fish. The yellow tang was there first and will view the lemonpeel as competition because they look sort of similar (color). So the tang would be stressed picking on the lemonpeel and the lemonpeel would be very stressed getting picked upon.

There are lots of good threads to read on this site dealing with ich and your best strategies for treatment. There is also a whole long thread on dosing vitamin c. Good luck!

[ErikH]

Yeah, the problem here lies with the type of ich. Our typical marine ich is very different than black ich, which is brought on by a parasitic worm, if I remember correctly. I checked my tangs at lunch and couldn't see any spots, but I will check again when the halides are a rockin.

[JimD]

Go with this first and Ill see if I can dig up some info about the zoo's...

http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/com...a/aa041701.htm

[seils@cisco.com]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm going to start with a water change and dialing in my salinity.

Any recommendations on a better hydrometer/refractometer?

Zach

[ErikH]

http://www.tropic-marin.com/web/engl...ukte/araeo.htm

Per Bill's recommendation (bstreep)

Bill is wise.

[seils@cisco.com]

Just an update for everyone ...

I lowered the SG in the tank to 1.019 and changed 15% of the tank water. Almost overnight the lemonpeel's eye has cleared up. The black spots on the yellow also appear to be diminishing in size.

Thanks again for the responses.

Zach

[crossxfire2]

I don't even know why they sell hydrometers. What is the point? All they do is cause havock. I have 1 that is 5 points off. My salinity is at 1.025, but my hydrometer sais 1.020. I always compensate. Take your water to a fish dealer and have them measure the salinity. Then see how many points off your hydrometer is, then compensate for your own tank.

[Richard]

There is no known cure for this type of ich, ...

Where did you get that information?

Take a look at tang turbellarian/black ich treatments in this article...
http://www.saltwater-aquarium-online.../diseases.html

I would opt for prazi bath treatments.