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Hello.
My tank is a 120 gallon 4'x2'x2' acrylic tank with a 15 gallon sump.
The filtration is an Aqua C EV-120, 100 micron filter sock, and carbon for 3 days once a month.
The turnover rate is 2100 GPH.
The lighting is 2x250 W 10k Ushio MH and 2x 110 W VHO actinic.
Ammonia-0ppm
Nitrite-0ppm
Nitrate-0ppm
SG-1.0025 ppm
pH- 8.3-8.4
Alk- 9.8dkH
Fish: 1 Regal tang (ich), 1 Yellow tang, 3 Chalk Basslets, 1 True percula clownfish.
Corals: 1 Large Colony of Brown Zoos, 1 Branching Hammer Coral, 1 Kenya Tree Coral, 1 Open Brain coral
Inverts: 1 LTA, 1 Arrow crab, 1 Cleaner shrimp, 12 Nassarius Snails, 12 Mexican turbo snails
Okay, now to adress my dilemma. Recently my Regal tang has developed tiny pinhead sized white dots. There are about 10-20 on him. He is eating well and is quite fat. The tank has been established for about 4 months and the tang was added over 2 months ago (he was the first addition). I have not added any fish in the last month. The Regal is the only fish to show any signs of ich.
I have a 10 Gallon tank I can quarantine him in. I have been told that since he is still eating and swimming normally that it would be best to leave him be and hope that he recovers. What course of action should I take. Thank you in advance.
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| Welcome to MarineDepot.com and this forum. The problem is the parasite will remain in your tank and continually "annoy" or infect your fish. At a recent Fish Vet conference that I attended with well respected fish vets like Dr Noga, Dr Stoskopf and Dr Lewbart, Dr Stoskopf related living in a tank with the ich parasite is like living in a house infested with fleas - the fleas usually don't kill a healthy person but the continual stress/agitation will affect the immune system/well being. In an aquarium, this continual stress will affect the immune system of the fish and leave them vulnerable to opportunistic pathogens and shorten the fish's life span as well the fish will not be able to handle unexpected changes - pump failure, water parameter fluctuations. The spots may come & go but the parasite will live on in the tank. Please read the stickied thread "ich" in my forum - great information. http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic31173-10-1.aspx Also consider quarantining everything wet before adding to the display tank. Great article by Steve Pro on QT: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-10/sp/feature/index.php Again, welcome.
Kelly
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