Yellow Eye Tang in 5 Gallon tank!

[baron1282]

Ok, well it's the best I can do for a QT tank.

My Singapore Angelfish out of nowhere died and right after my Yellow Eye Tang has Ich.

I had a post about it my angelfish, but couldn't get any help. it died literally within hours after showing NO signs of anything.

Now my Yellow Eye Tang has Ich. I removed him from my display tank as fast as I could. I thought it was sand for a few days at first, but realized it was getting worse.

All of my other fish are fine and show no sign of any ich or anything else. I have been feeding them healthy meaty foods each day. I treat the food from time to time with Garlic, and I change the food up each day. Pellets are always fed with whatever main course I choose for the day. Squid, Mysis, Brine, Plankton, and Seaweed.

So, getting to the point. My water test perfect, and I just did a water change. I also changed all my filters (Not the biological ones). I removed my infected guy and put him into the 5 Gallon QT tank. It's the only tank I got, I had to get rid of my bigger ones. :-( I figure it's better than having him infest the whole tank.

I am now treating him with Ich medication per the instructions on the bottle. Is there anything else I should do? I hope within a few days this clears up. I have already gave him a Freshwater bath (But it seemed to make it worse).

 

[Sniperhank]

Freshwater dips can be stressful as much as they can be helpful. I'm assuming the tang is in QT for treatment? You'll have to leave the tank fallow for 6-8 weeks to make sure all the ich is gone. Even with that said, there has to be something stressing the fish out to get to that level of a death and ich showing up.

And of course, hoping that this really isn't a 5 gallon tank and just a typo.

 

[baron1282]

No it's a 5 gallon QT tank. Not a typo.

My main tank is 120 gallon long. He was pulled from that to be treated.

I don't know what is stressing my guys out. It's like out of no where this is happening. I thought of aggression, but all of my fish have been together for a year without issue. My tank reads perfect! So I don't know what changed.

Maybe moving the rock around caused stress on him. I know there is a reason for ich, but right now I got to get him cleared up. All of my other guys are in the 120 gallon without issue. I didn't want it to spread.


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