Losing fish to vortechs :(

dynamite · #1 06-18-2011, 06:00 AM

Thanks again for all your replies... Well I have BAD news...
Just when things couldn't get WORSE... Not receiving anything of what I bought online for my tank or the present I bought my dad for Father's Day.. because of the Canada Post's strike (Thank you I'll start using UPS).
I just saw that my small Yellow Tang 2in.. Once healthy... has a few tiny black spots.. So I'm guessing it's black ich.
It's the 1st time in 3years with this tank that one of my fish gets sick

and the worst part it's I don't know what to do!!!

He seems healthy he's swiming, playing and schooling with the other fish like always and he's pooping huge green poop

He seems ok.. But I don't know what to do! I don't want him to die or my other fish to get infected! What should I do??? I don't have a quarantine tank

It's the black ich going to go away if I keep him "healthy" and well fed? And what caused this black ich outbreak?

SOS!!!

naesco · #2 06-18-2011, 07:11 AM

Give her a freshwater bath and the black ich will drop off.
What is the size of your tank?

dynamite · #3 06-19-2011, 06:57 AM

I have a 90g tank
My Yellow Tang is quite small tho, like 2 inches?
I don't know if is Black ich.. he seems fine.. 2 days ago I added carbon and I didn't rinse it

Do you think it may be some particles of carbon? How can I tell if it's black ich or carbon?

abcha0s · #4 06-19-2011, 12:07 PM

You really must rinse your carbon. There is a suspected link between carbon dust and HLLE. There was a study being done a while ago to validate this, but I haven't heard anything more since and I do not know the results. However, it's not hard to imagine that carbon dust could be very bad for fish.

- Brad

cwatkins · #5 06-19-2011, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by abcha0s@conceptaquatics

You really must rinse your carbon. There is a suspected link between carbon dust and HLLE. - Brad

Or just buy the Carbon from BRS that has minimal dust.

I don't rinse mine, what I do is just let the first few gallons of water run through it into a pale, and then when the water is running clear then I put the output back into the sump. In effect this is rinsing it, but it's much easier than trying to rinse it by hand at the sink.

dynamite · #6 06-20-2011, 02:06 AM

Thanks for the info.. I'll start rinsing my carbon.

I think I'm going to give my YellowTang a fresh water bath.
He's hard to catch!!!
Would a cleaner shrimp or wrasse do the job?

dynamite · #7 06-20-2011, 04:27 AM

Ok, so after half an hour of chasing my Yellow Tang and destroying my aquascape

I gave my yellow tang a 6m freshwater bath to get rid of the black spots... and apparently they're gone. He's stressed and hiding

And I hope he survives to this bad experience of swimming in freshwater.

I don't want to stress him more so I'll re-aquascape the tank tomorrow, I'm afraid to lose him

I also found my Candy Cane Pistol shrimp! I thought he died or something... Now he shares the same rock with my Yasha Goby but not the same entrance