My salt water tank is about 8 weeks along. There is lots of live rock, 2 shrimp, feather dusters, 2 urchins, lots of hermit crabs and snails, a sand-sifting starfish, 3 damsels, 1yellow tang, 1 royal blue tang, 5 engineer gobies, and one lawnmower blennie.
I just added the urchins, sand sifting star, snails, and blue tang last evening. I moved the live rock around and stirred up the sand quite a bit.
This morning I woke up and found that all 5 gobies have what appears to be ick. None of the other fish are affected.
The gobies are eating, breathing, and swimming normally. They are even digging out the holes I covered up when I move the sand around.
Could ick have really developed that fast?
I just tested the water yesterday and everything is perfect.
From what I've read, gobies are pretty hardy fish. I would have thought that the tangs would present symptoms before anything else.
Would it make more sense that the gobies may have gotten a fungus or worms?
Please Help!!!!!!!
2007-09-30 03:20:06 · 3 answers · asked by Elizabeth M 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
The gobies have white spots all over them. The white spots seem to be hanging on them.
2007-09-30 03:24:22 · update #1
I have a 65 gallon tank
2007-09-30 03:38:48 · update #2
I have to agree with Chris that you have one tang too many for the size of your tank. Both get fairly large (7-8" and 12") and are very active species.
Tangs are very susceptible to ich, but the gobies may have come with a mild infection which is why they had it first. At any rate, if the problem is ich, it will almost certainly spread to the others. You can treat this, but if you treat in the main tank, the medications will most likely kill all your inverts.
It's possible that this could be something other than ich, but It's hard to diagnose what this could be without actually seeing the fish. Since you are the one who can see them, I'm passing along a website that is very good for diagnosis and treatment of marine diseases: http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/disease.html Each condition or term in red is a link to a page with more details.
2007-09-30 17:58:57 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should of quarintined all of your fish before placing them in your display. Most likely if the water parameters are fine it was taken from the fish store.
How big is your tank?
Also seems like you stocked too fast.
You stocked to fast antwo tangs are too big for that tank
2007-09-30 03:29:07 · answer #2 · answered by Chris M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Help the Iraqi patients whom with out any medical care because of US occupation &your fish will be OK
2007-10-03 22:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by jasimalhadad 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋