powder blue tang worries

[vorlx]

Garlic is a good supplement for the fishes diet. It is healthy for all fish. It contains vitamins and nutrients good for the fish. Grins can probably elaborate more in detail.

Your fish is pretty good size and I can imagine it was rather stressed being in such a small tank in the LFS. Not to mention the stress of the move from where it came from before that. Several LFS's around here don't feed them properly either.

Hopefully it pulls through.

 

[siany]

hi.
Maybe in this piccie you can see the markings better. I do think there's more darker markings than there was before. He feeds mostly off the ground and grazes on the algae on my live rocks so i don't know if he'd get any. Do i just press the garlic and collect the juice?How much do i need?
Thanks again.
Sian

 

[Reefscape]

if you use raw garlic to extract the juice from, you dont need to use that much, just enough to lightly soak over the feed..

Niko

 

[Grins]

Take a look at the last letter on this page: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tangdisfaq8.htm

 

[siany]

Hi there.
Thats exactly what my tang looks like. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately they don't know whats wrong wrong with it so it doesn't help me much. Would you quarantine it or do you think this will cause it more stress?
Sian

 

[Grins]

I'd make sure it was eating enough marine greens by providing nori on a clip and supplementing that with Ocean Nutrition formula II if you don't have a lot of algae already growing on the rocks. In fact I'd probably feed that for a bit anyhow and soak it with garlic and or Selcon. I'd also keep the water parameters as close to perfect as you can. And then I'd just keep an eye on him and see if there is any change. From the looks of the tang in the photo at WWM it doesn't look to be a parasite but...the scratching you've mentioned does sound like it so I'm not feeling real strongly in either direction as to what you're dealing with..a nutritional definciency or a parasite.