I have a reef/fish tank with a yellow tank that turn brown with some yellow spots, whats wrong with him?

Question

The yellow tang is not old so it shouldnt have changed color, its about 3 inchs and was yellow when i bought it. Not is it brown with some yellow spots, and my other fish are now sick also, what can i do?

I have a lion fish, puffer and a rabbit fish that look like they are starting to get coudy eye. The puffer i put in a bucket to try to treat since he seemed to have ich and then got the cloudy eye. He has gotten a little better after almost 2 weeks of being in there (eats now and is more active).

Answer 1

Your fish are suffering form poor water quality which has allowed them to have problems fighting bacteria in your tank. Start changing 10% of the water every day. If you don't have a skimmer, get one. Also consider adding a vitamin/garlic supplement to your tank. When you fish have recovered, I would suggest slowly increasing the amount of live rock or sand bed to help out with your biological filtering.
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Answer 2

How big is your tank? Not sure on salt water, but in fresh water, cloudy eye is a sign of poor water quality. I'm guessing your tank is overstocked, and you're not doing enough water
changes.

Lionfish need at least a 55 gal tank to themselves, as well as the yellow tang, and depending on the types of the other 2 55-100 gallons each.
So, if you have a 200 gal + tank I apologize, but otherwise, you might consider a bigger tank or getting rid of most of them. Otherwise they're going to end up dying, and SW fish are rather expensive IMO.

Here's some links for some forums/info, search around, but I would suggest first starting with water changes.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/categ.cfm?pcatid=15

http://www.fishforums.com/forum/

http://www.aquariacentral.com/

Answer 3

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Answer 4

if it is ich than you can do this:
go to the phamacy and buy some garlic pills that are full of liquid, then every night at feeding time, squeeze a tiny drop onto their dry food and mix it up, then feedd it to them. If you start to get a film on the top of the water, you know that you are feeding them too much.

Answer 5

here is a web site hope it helps.

http://www.whozoo.org/Anlife99/loriwood/tang3.htm

it sounds like if you separate them all from each other until they are all better then slowly put them back in one tank it should be good. if not call a vet. Fish are important to. :)

Answer 6

..........another reason people should have a "quaruntine tank"....


www.saltwaterfish.com
go to the message boards and you can learn about the diseases and treatments.