Brown spots on yellow tang

[Elev8minh]

Healthy as can be. I fed him Kanaplex and focus for about a week. The spots diminished but lingered for a bit. Totally gonen now.

Do you think my tang is going through what yours was? looks like he has what yours did? I’m new to the hobby and don’t want to lose him especially since the price skyrocketed on yellow tangs. When I first got him his color was so uniform and yellow. I also noticed his pectoral fins became a little red as well.

 

[gideon2086]

Possibly, but this looks more severe. @Jay Hemdal can very likely provide better guidance than I.

 

[Elev8minh]

Do you think my tang is going through what yours was? looks like he has what yours did? I’m new to the hobby and don’t want to lose him especially since the price skyrocketed on yellow tangs. When I first got him his color was so uniform and yellow. I also noticed his pectoral fins became a little red as well.

Possibly, but this looks more severe. @Jay Hemdal can very likely provide better guidance than I.

I really appreciate it. I mean he was fine when I first got him. But I know due to the lack of experience of fish keeping since I am a beginner I know I made quite a bit of mistakes starting with a quarantine tank but it was basically a qt observation tank because I got him from Marine Collectors through Elliot and he quarantines all of his fish ahead of time so I didn’t have to qt anything but I had no sand and just bio balls and the bacteria chemistry swing was all over the place. Plus bacterial bloom happened and the water got ***** cloudy so I ended up adding sand into the tank and everything stabilized instantly but I think due to my lack of knowledge of going back-and-forth here and transferring him to buckets stressed him out.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Do you think my tang is going through what yours was? looks like he has what yours did? I’m new to the hobby and don’t want to lose him especially since the price skyrocketed on yellow tangs. When I first got him his color was so uniform and yellow. I also noticed his pectoral fins became a little red as well.

Make sure you don’t have a water quality issue (ammonia). If that is all ok, then this could be septicemia.
Jay

 

[Elev8minh]

Make sure you don’t have a water quality issue (ammonia). If that is all ok, then this could be septicemia.
Jay

Thank you very much for your fast response sir I did a 100% water change last night at a salinity of 1.020 since i had him. He still eating but it seems like the reddish/brownish color is getting more visible by the day. Do you recommend me using kanaplex and focus in his food or directly in the water? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to lose him

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Thank you very much for your fast response sir I did a 100% water change last night at a salinity of 1.020 since i had him. He still eating but it seems like the reddish/brownish color is getting more visible by the day. Do you recommend me using kanaplex and focus in his food or directly in the water? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to lose him

In this case, the problem is external, so an antibiotic bath would work better than an oral dose. Kanaplex in the water would be a good choice - just follow the label instructions. Remember though, choosing an antibiotic is often just a guess - you want to use a b road spectrum, gram negative antibiotic, but each one has a different spectrum of activity, so there is no telling for sure which to use.

Jay

 

[gideon2086]

Thank you very much for your fast response sir I did a 100% water change last night at a salinity of 1.020 since i had him. He still eating but it seems like the reddish/brownish color is getting more visible by the day. Do you recommend me using kanaplex and focus in his food or directly in the water? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to lose him

To Jay's point, did you check your ammonia?

 

[Elev8minh]

To Jay's point, did you check your ammonia?

Yes it’s at zero

 

[Jay Hemdal]

In re-reading the posts, I see that there HAD been a water quality issue but that is now under control. High ammonia is one thing that is suspected in causing septicemia in yellow tangs (shipping damage). In this case, the wild swings in the water quality likely had the same effect. My post from last night would still be the course of action that I would follow. Remember though, that new fish can have multiple issues at the same time. I'm relying on this fish's prequarantine to at least reduce other possible issues.

Jay

 

[Elev8minh]

I dosed the appropriate amount of kanaplextwo days ago and this is today. I honestly don’t think he’s going to make it...

 

[gideon2086]

I dosed the appropriate amount of kanaplextwo days ago and this is today. I honestly don’t think he’s going to make it...

Is he eating

 

[Jay Hemdal]

You need to run the Kanaplex for the full three treatments. Today should be the second dose and then Monday the third. Antibiotics take time to work. Please bear in mind my Wednesday 7:38 pm post.

Jay

 

[vetteguy53081]

To add. . . Diet is important along with treatment. Too many wrong foods suggested by LFS
Feed at minimum:
Spirulina brine shrimp
Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
LRS Herbivore diet
Formula 2 flake and frozen
Hikari Marine cuisine
Hikari Mega marine algae
Mysis shrimp
small plankton

Add selcon vitamins to the food 2-3X per week and garlic extract on alternating days for immunity system health and overall stamina