2dawghouse
02/22/2008, 08:09 PM
Hello all, I have an interesting issue that hopefully someone can help me with. I have about a 3" flame angel in my 150 now, (he has been in there about 3 weeks straight out of QT). Lately his face has strarted to develop black patches like a koi goldfish. He is eating well, I feed a frozen mixture of mysid,ormula 1 and 2, pygmy angel, spurlina, brine. He acts the same as he always has, the only thing that is new is I recently ( a week ago) added a 5" yellow tang from my sons tank. There is no aggression issues with any fish, but the black patches are growing little by little. I hope someone can help me with this.
I tried to get a good pic, but he wouldnt copperate, I will try again here in a minute.
LFS said that it was a sunburn from the halides, I doubt that.
My tank Parameters:
150 mixed reef sps (mostly), lps, softies
Circulation appr: 4800-5000 gph
S.G. 1.024
Temp 77-79
pH 8.17-8.30
Amn: 0 , Nitrite: 0, Nitrate: 0, Phos: .002
Calcium 410, Alk 9.4
2X250 metal halides
Tank Mates:
2" Chromis and Pacific tang
3" Mandrin
5" Neon Wrasse
4" Gold Bar Wrasse
2" Percula
5" Yellow tang
2" Royal Gramma
I tried to get a good pic, but he wouldnt copperate, I will try again here in a minute.
LFS said that it was a sunburn from the halides, I doubt that.
My tank Parameters:
150 mixed reef sps (mostly), lps, softies
Circulation appr: 4800-5000 gph
S.G. 1.024
Temp 77-79
pH 8.17-8.30
Amn: 0 , Nitrite: 0, Nitrate: 0, Phos: .002
Calcium 410, Alk 9.4
2X250 metal halides
Tank Mates:
2" Chromis and Pacific tang
3" Mandrin
5" Neon Wrasse
4" Gold Bar Wrasse
2" Percula
5" Yellow tang
2" Royal Gramma