White Spot!!!

Sorry, I don't know much about white spot, but did used to have a blue tang that would get it every once in a while. He would only get a couple of spots and I would see him scratching some. Basically, I just left him alone, but kept a close eye on him. He always got better (he got it 2 or 3 times the couple years I had him for unknown reasons).

I don't know what you could add to help eradicate it, maybe others can give some assistance. I would keep a close eye on him, maybe do a couple of water changes, since you've had him for such a short while. Maybe he could be affecting the bio filtration some. Try not to disturb him too much, maybe keep the lights off for a couple of days and see what happens. Depending on how much you feed, maybe cut down just a little bit, just in case the tank is doing a little extra cycling. Help cut down on the waste.

I think it would be pretty difficult/stressful on him if you tried to catch him and put him in a qt tank. Although that might be what you should do. Then you could treat him specifically. Are you sure it is white spot? Is everything/one else ok? Is it a new tank? Cycled completely?

Good Luck, Frank

This is why quarentineing new additions is so important. That angel could spread ich to your whole tank, and treating with coppersafe in a reef tank is out of the question.

We had a client who just reccently purchased an asfur angel (about 4 weeks ago). Well, they didn't know what ich and velvet looked like, and didnt mention to us when the angel got it. It got so bad that they lost thier angel, yellow tang, dogface puffer, and picasso trigger. We caught it just in time to treat the tank and save thier last two fish. Had they treated the tank right away they likely could have saved most if not all of thier fish.

So be careful, and if it IS ich then I would attempt to catch the angel and treat it in a quarentine tank. But if its been in there a week theres a good chance the parasite has had a chance to get into the system.

-Diana