WhiteSpot

[Gannet]

Hi All.

got a powder blue tang that has come out with whitespot, he has been in the tank 4 days so far, there is a cleaner Shrimp in there with him, but havnt seen him doing anything,

the tang isnt fat as such but isnt overly thin, have got some macro in the tank (a cutting from the sump) in there for him to graze on but havnt seen him eat that at all,

he has been eating frozen mysis.

i have read up to soak the food in garlic, do i use garlic cloves and mash it with the food? sorry not to sure about all this.

also rumors a UV can help, what sive UV will be needed for about 800 odd litres??

thanks for all the help you will provide.

Gannet

[Fmxmatt]

2 options

Catch and Quarantine. Hyper salinity I believe is the most effective way to get rid of it. I think its 1.019, but someone else may have to confirm this. There will be articles on the net

If ur unable to catch it, then UV MAY be an option but many will say that its a waste of time.

Keep water params as stable as possible. Temperature and thus salinity fluctuations can cause stress, and is possibly the cause seeing as though the Tang is only new and will still be settling in.

Garlic is supposed to promote an active immunity system in the fish, and theres no downside to using it. May aswel give it a go, though you may find they dont like it to start with. I use Seachem Garlic guard, but crushed normal garlic is supposed to be better.

I actually ended up dosing a product which made the difference, although I borrowed this from Wasp, and I'm not sure its available in New Zealand. I think it was called "Stop Parasite" but it was a year ago so cant really remember.

If its only a few spots, see how you go with keeping the params stable, it may come right this way. Also try garlic aswel. Keep us posted

[cookie extreme]

you can't get stop parasite anymore they stoped making it. it was a great product but must have harmed someting.

[reef]

you can get stop pariste but not in NZ as it needs permits. all too hard and too expensive.

MAF & Govt agencies prefer fish to suffer and die.

[Gannet]

thanks for that, is garlic guard any good? dose it work?? i was thinking of getting some.

is it possable to soak unfrozen frozen mysis??

cant quartine as it would be nearly im possably and more stressfull to catch him out of the tank.

[Fmxmatt]

You can soak anything in it. Its just 100% garlic extract in a liquid form.

[Gannet]

thanks for that,

he is looking better now, but i dont understand why, as it is almost like the ammount is of spots goes up and down like a yoyo

[Fmxmatt]

Yup, it seemed my blue tang was like that aswel!

From memory, in the morning it looked TERRIBLE, and by evening, it looked seriously better, and I often thought "Wow its getting better real quick!"

[suphew]

Likely it's not whitespot then. The 'white spots' are wounds that the parasite leaves as it exits the skin, they don't just appear and disappear.

[Fmxmatt]

Likely it's not whitespot then. The 'white spots' are wounds that the parasite leaves as it exits the skin, they don't just appear and disappear.

Not exactly, white spots are the parasites under the skin. Black spots are left as the wounds once the parasite bails out into the substrate.

[Gannet]

ok now im lost lol, the tank is bare bottom so would this impead the life cycle of the whitespot

[Fmxmatt]

Not too sure on that one.

Alot of the articles I read on the web about it, suggested vaccuuming the substrate on a daily basis, to try and catch the parasites once they've dropped off the host.

If this is infact a successful method, then you would have to assume that having no substrate for the parasites to hide in would be a big help in the fight against them.

Do a google search on the life cycle of whitespot if ya are bored

[TM]

Ich maybe

Some of my tangs would do it when i changed the water.

I would just keep feeding and doing what you were doing.

If it gets worse drop the salinity and look at getting him out.

[suphew]

Unless the spot (s) is there for at least 3 days it is NOT white spot.

I have seen tangs so covered it's hard to tell what type they are, and they have recovered fine. As long as it keeps eating don't panic.

[Gannet]

thanks for that, i will keep ya up to date with how he is going

[raeh1]

hey

buy two cleaner shrimps problem solved long term, and look cool

[Gannet]

i have already got a cleaner shrimp