Catching a tang...

[bling_bling466]

I cought a tang yesterday by just waiting while feeding and when he came to the top..BANG.... First try. All the tang were good eaters tho and came up and would eat out of my hands

[Skimmerking]

Well I have had great, success with a red light and a net at night

[naesco]

If you put a tang in a sump you are guaranteed of an ich outbreak.

The first tang to perish will be the achilles.

Advertise to give away the tang to a reefer who has a large tank like you.

[MarkoD]

Lol ich doesn't appear just cuz a tang is a sump.

I my Achilles had ich the first week I got it, but he's all good now

[naesco]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Lol ich doesn't appear just cuz a tang is a sump.

I my Achilles had ich the first week I got it, but he's all good now

Often ich lies dormant. The fish seem to be able to deal with a very minor problem themselves if they are healthy.

Tangs are ich magnets. The stress of being placed in a noisy environment IMO will cause the OP an ich outbreak. In addition the size of the sump is far too small for a tang which will add to the stress.

As you have experienced with your own achilles, achilles are really iffy tangs. IMO it will be the first to succumb to ich.

I do not believe that anyone on this board would support placing a tang in a sump.

Thank you
Wayne

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by naesco

Often ich lies dormant. The fish seem to be able to deal with a very minor problem themselves if they are healthy.

Tangs are ich magnets. The stress of being placed in a noisy environment IMO will cause the OP an ich outbreak. In addition the size of the sump is far too small for a tang which will add to the stress.

As you have experienced with your own achilles, achilles are really iffy tangs. IMO it will be the first to succumb to ich.

I do not believe that anyone on this board would support placing a tang in a sump.

Thank you
Wayne

Putting a blue eyed kole tang in a sump won't give the Achilles tang ich. Not removing it will.

No a sump is not ideal for a tang. But its an ok 2-3 day solution.

[mandyplo]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

Putting a blue eyed kole tang in a sump won't give the Achilles tang ich. Not removing it will.

No a sump is not ideal for a tang. But its an ok 2-3 day solution.

+1

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by naesco

Often ich lies dormant

You meant to say it often goes unseen, right ?
ICH is either in a tank or not

[naesco]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

You meant to say it often goes unseen, right ?
ICH is either in a tank or not

Yes

[mandyplo]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

You meant to say it often goes unseen, right ?
ICH is either in a tank or not

I'm not a scientist (yet) but I think hes right when he said it lies dormant (in a way). Ich, from what I know about freshwater and assume is similar to saltwater, is that every fish either has been exposed to ich at one point in its life or has it, and most tanks always have the ich parasite present in their water. The only time the fish is actually affected by it is when their slime coat is reduced, caused by many things. Most commonly stress. When a fish is at its healthiest, the ich parasite cannot penetrate the fish's slime coat and affect the fish. But as soon as a fish is feeling down the ich is able to take advantage.

This is why the OP needs to get the other tang out of the tank, so the tang can be relieved of stress and fight off the infection on his own. Once he is healthy and back to normal, the ich will still always be in your water, but it won't affect your fish unless they become stressed/sick from another cause.