Yellow tang fin blotches

firehorn · 06/29/2012, 03:00 PM

Hey all,
Ive had my yellow tang for over 5 weeks now and at first it had what i think was ich, then it passed, now it has these white sort of sores, i searched google and ended up with the conclusion of lympho... should i leave it alone? as it is n my DT and there is no way i could catch it now. it keeps trying to scrape against rocks and always goes next to my cleaner shrimp and coral banded shrimp to get cleaned though im not sure they clean her. she is eating well i also garlic dipped the food today. Anything i could do?

Thank you

Mark

MrTuskfish · 06/30/2012, 07:29 AM

It looks like lympho, a virus. Pristine water, good diet, and vitamins will help it disappear. it will take time.
Ich doesn't just go away, it stays until either you kill it or it gets your fish. The tang is almost certainly scratching because of ich, not the lympho. Cleaner shrimp, garlic, etc., do nothing to eliminate ich and ich isn't always visible. It sounds like your tank has ich and all fish are at risk. You'll have to get all of your fish into a HT/QT and treat them while the DT remains fishless for 9+ weeks. This is a PITA, I know, but its your only option. Did you use a quarantine tank for all new fish? It would have prevented this.

MrTuskfish · 06/30/2012, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by MrTuskfish

It looks like lympho, a virus. Pristine water, good diet, and vitamins will help it disappear. it will take time.
Ich doesn't just go away, it stays until either you kill it or it gets your fish. The tang is almost certainly scratching because of ich, not the lympho. Cleaner shrimp, garlic, etc., do nothing to eliminate ich and ich isn't always visible. It sounds like your tank has ich and all fish are at risk. You'll have to get all of your fish into a HT/QT and treat them while the DT remains fishless for 9+ weeks. This is a PITA, I know, but its your only option. Did you use a quarantine tank for all new fish? It would have prevented this.

I wouldn't worry about the lympho if the tang also has ich. The lympho won't kill him, but the ich can. Like people, fish need their best health to fight off a virus.

06/30/2012, 07:29 AM	#2
MrTuskfish Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Wild Blue Yonder Posts: 7,287	It looks like lympho, a virus. Pristine water, good diet, and vitamins will help it disappear. it will take time. Ich doesn't just go away, it stays until either you kill it or it gets your fish. The tang is almost certainly scratching because of ich, not the lympho. Cleaner shrimp, garlic, etc., do nothing to eliminate ich and ich isn't always visible. It sounds like your tank has ich and all fish are at risk. You'll have to get all of your fish into a HT/QT and treat them while the DT remains fishless for 9+ weeks. This is a PITA, I know, but its your only option. Did you use a quarantine tank for all new fish? It would have prevented this. __________________ If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat. "Extremism in the pursuit of ich-free tanks is no vice".........with apologies to Barry Goldwater, 1964 Current Tank Info: 180, 2-240 FOWLRs, 240 reef