Help, yellow tang breathing heavy!

[naesco]

Look very carefully on the yellow tang for ich. Look sideways along the body as it is sometimes hard to see on a yellow tang. I would start feeding garlic extract now.

Trigger, barring water quality problems, your experience with the achilles is typical. They do fine for a while than up and die for no apparent reason.

[Carmen]

Jason How's the tang? How's the bubble? Everything okay?

[Trigger Man]

Originally Posted by naesco

Look very carefully on the yellow tang for ich. Look sideways along the body as it is sometimes hard to see on a yellow tang. I would start feeding garlic extract now.

Trigger, barring water quality problems, your experience with the achilles is typical. They do fine for a while than up and die for no apparent reason.

Thats what I thought too with the Achilles, but then a few hours later my Kole started showing the same symptoms so I medicated him in my QT and he is looking better today. Both of the affected fish were tangs and I had put new corals in the night before, which they had picked at. Hence I believe the coral or rock brought something with it.

[jasond]

Hi Carmen, the Tang and the coral look great today. I am not sure what happened with the tang, I pointed the powerheads up for more surface agitation and am running carbon today, and all seems well. The coral looks awesome, it even ate tonight!

I didnt notice the tang nip at the bubble coral, but definately could have. I feed Michika's food, so they get garlic almost every day. Anyways, all seems to be better, thanks for all your replies, greatly appreciated!

[Trigger Man]

Glad to here the problem has gone away. Always a little stressful when you know something looks off but you can't figure it out.