Couple questions of my achilles

[marie]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

hopfully Marie will chime in there she has had her Achillies for a longtime now 6-7 years and her's is a beast and healthy too. ...

More like 2 or 3 years Mike
I don't have anything more to add then what untamed has said. My Achilles has never really had a problem with ich though. Seeing any ich on him is rare and when he does have spots at the most there are only 3 or 4

[wickedfrags]

Looks very healthy for that long in captivity. If ich came and went.......well it will be back, that's how ick works once active in a closed system. That being said, the fact that he is eating both frozen food and nori is excellent. Signs he should do quite well regardless of a little ick. Congrats on a great fish.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

When you see ich (white spots), its already ruptured or close to it and now in the tank by the thousands or about to be. The white spots are basically 'pregnant' or ruptured ich. You cannot see ich when it is burrowed in the fishes skin and feeding. Seeing no white spots means absolutely nothing.

So...quite often people see the white spots come and then go within a few days and think ich is gone or 'better'. By this time, your fish can be absolutely covered in ich but you won't see it.

What I am getting at is that you only know your 'ahead' of the ich once you don't see many white spots for a long time. I find that if you keep the fish stress free and don't add new fish to its tank for a few months, the number of white spots you see will lessen and lessen to a manageable number. Just watch for stress like rubbing or heavy breathing. That's when you need to start treating as they can go downhill very fast at this point. But as long as he is acting fine and eating, let him fight it off. If I were lucky enough to get an Achilles tang happy and even thriving in my tank, I would probably never add new tankmates. Even with my hippo, new fish to the tank mean a month or two of severe ich for him

Seems like he is doing ok though

[reefy]

I have 3 cleaner, 2 fire shrimps and 1 cleaner wrasse would that help?

[wickedfrags]

No. Check the link out below, a good read.

http://www.txinstall.com/ich/ich.htm

Originally Posted by reefy

I have 3 cleaner, 2 fire shrimps and 1 cleaner wrasse would that help?

[untamed]

Originally Posted by reefy

I have 3 cleaner, 2 fire shrimps and 1 cleaner wrasse would that help?

No.

[Rbacchiega]

+1 to everything that has been said. Unfortunately tangs are super prone to get ich. I've got a sohal in a tank right now that has been eating, actively swimming etc for the last 4 weeks he's been in the tank, but he's always had a little bit of ich on him. No other fish show any signs, just the tang...


A little off topic, but you're planning an upgrade soon right? to what size? that's exciting! I love upgrades!