Im new to saltwater, Is this Ich?

[tony_3a]

Ok i think i figured out photos.









Best photos i could get, im new to taking photos of fish lol.

he looks to be in Petty good condition the darker spots could be just his adult coloring coming out. the white could be a bit of ICK I would feed him for the next 2 weeks with garlic extreme and selcon or zoecon and garlic. that Nem in the third picture may have tagged him and stressed him a bit and that would account for the shaking Nems have a nerve toxin they inject so if he was not tagged hard he will live and if he was hit hard he will not watch for him to loss his apatite that is the first sign of never toxin poisoning that is fatal. Just a though does it look like he is shaking his head?
The white on his tail maybe fungus need a better pic of both sides.
Try this for taking a pic get a white ice cream pail and cut it down so you can put the camera lens through a hole in the bottom and it will not touch the side of the tank. When taking a pic this way try using a flash and without a flash, don't worry if the flash is attached to the camera as the white pail will diffuse it and give you a better diffusion with out a backwash image on the pick. This should also allow you to get a better closeup pic.
Bill

[tony_3a]

the black spot is only on one side of the tail not the other. Ill try to get some of that garlic stuff maybe oceanic has some in i am going there tomorrow. Thanks for all the help. The shaking does appear to be from his head mostly not his whole body, to feed him garlic do i need to make sure he is the only one eating it, or is it ok if the other fish eat it as well? The damsels eat like pigs.

Also i have a anemone as well, but he is hiding under a rock i dont really know how to feed him, the nemos are hosted by him tho i saw that they can bring him food or something.

More pics can be found in my tank journal i just started one.

Thanks a lot

[tang daddy]

black thing on the fishes tail is alittle bit weird, never seen that before it could be velvet....

if the fish is thrashing around, or as I like to call it skipping off rocks then there maybe ich. Just see if there are white spots on it, the spots are small.

Ich is in every fish, they carry it and when stressed they have an outbreak.
feed it garlic soaked food and do weekly waterchanges of atleast 30%.

If the black stuff on it's body fuzzes or gets wierd like an open wound I would qt the fish in another tank to stop it from spreading to your other tank mates.

When you buy fish in the future make sure you fully inspect it for fungus and parasites.

Personally when I buy fish I like to sit and look at it for atleast 10-20mins, the reason I do this is to study the actions of the fish. Believe it or not you can tell alot from a fish by how it swims, sometimes they have bladder problems which cause them to swim funny also a fish that is not active most times has problems. And a last thing please do research on the fish before buying it.... IE tank requirements, food, compatibility with tank mates you already have, these play huge rolls in the survival of the fish!

I am not an expert but have read the marine fish book over 100 times so I know exactly what the requirements for every fish are.

GL

Originally Posted by tony_3a

the black spot is only on one side of the tail not the other. Ill try to get some of that garlic stuff maybe oceanic has some in i am going there tomorrow. Thanks for all the help. The shaking does appear to be from his head mostly not his whole body, to feed him garlic do i need to make sure he is the only one eating it, or is it ok if the other fish eat it as well? The damsels eat like pigs.

Also i have a anemone as well, but he is hiding under a rock i dont really know how to feed him, the nemos are hosted by him tho i saw that they can bring him food or something.

More pics can be found in my tank journal i just started one.

Thanks a lot

I would QT him if he is shaking his head it could be brook shaking of the head, white spots and fungus are all sings of brook. treat with formalin based med not copper as copper has no afect on brook where forminlin will also help with ICK. Copper should never be used on angle fish or tangs unless you cannot help it. Marine velvet is white or a gold color normaly that is not velevet from what i can see.

[tony_3a]

Ok so im going to oceanic in a little bit to see if they have any garlic stuff to soak the food in, i got some more pics that are better of the tail.





Also im going to set up a quarantine tank today i think.

After the vancouver aquarium with my son!

My whole tank started as something for my son to look at(that was a 36 gallon bowfront) i upgraded the next week to my 69 gallon reef tank.