Black Spots

[goby1]

Do you think the cleaner shrimp brought in the Black Dot?

[RicePaddy]

No, I am positive it was the Yellow Tang. When I bought him he was a little beat up from his tank mates. And the place where I got him from is suppose to quaranteen the fish before selling. I notice a couple of sault like black spots on him when I put him in my tank. Then they came off and now I see them on my clown fish.

I am never, ever going to buy anything else and just place it in my tank. From what I am reading this Black Spot can last in your tank for months. How big of a quaranteen tank will I need for a yellow tang, 2 clowns and a damsel. And I imagine I will also have to QT my cleaner shrimp.

Will

[RicePaddy]

I have been told that if I use a vitemin supplement to strenghten the immune system of my fish. And then buy a Cleaner Wrasse that this would be a natural way to control the Black Spot. However when reading about the Cleaner Wrasse it said that once the paracites are gone it could starve to death. I do not want to bring a new fish friend home only to know he my die.

Just wanted to hear some opinions.

[howdy20012002]

I have had one of my cleaner wrasse for just under a year now
He eats pretty much whatever I feed the tank.
Certainly is not starving to death
I think it depends on whether or not it starts eating things besides parasites.
My experience has been positive so far with the 3 I have.
Hope this helps
Neal

[christyf5]

A neon goby is another option. They're great little cleaners and after the disease is gone they readily acclimate to whatever you feed them as well as grazing whatever else they can find. They're great little fish, very personable. Both the neon (blue) and sharknose (yellow) will clean fish, but the blue ones are definitely more persistent IMO.

[RicePaddy]

Excellent suggestion. I like the look of the neon goby much better. And I had also planned on putting them in my tank eventually. I imagine a pair would be better then just one.

Are neon goby's like clowns and change sexes? I would like to get a male and female.

Will

[christyf5]

I'm not really sure, but if you don't have a large tank one will eventually dominate and chase the other one ALL DAY and I don't think it was foreplay I had one sharknose and one neon in a 90 gallon tank and the sharknose chased the neon whenever he could see it. Eventually the neon ended up in the sump and I fished him out and put him in my nano tank. I wouldn't recommend 2 neons in anything less than a 75. If you've seen samw's video of his neons fighting its really rather gory how aggressive they can get towards each other.