Yellow Tang Question

[Richard_Dicosimo]

i don't have alot of experience with pop eye, just what i see in the fish stores. I always thought pop eye meant the fish had been cyanide caught? and being that the fish is obviously not healthy i have never bought a fish with pop eye so i don't know, but i thought pop eye usually meant death was probably coming soon. but theres always a chance the fish can get better.

Richard

[Diana]

It still might not be pop eye, an injury can also cause those symptoms. Its hard to say without a pic, but if its an injury there's nothing much you can do other than to let it heal. Keep him healthy by feeding him good foods and yes soaking the food in Selcon and/or Zoe will help boost his immune system.

[Richard_Dicosimo]

i dont think he knows what selcon is or possably zeo, to be honest im not even sure what selcon is. i always assumed it was a liquid that you could add to the food to enrich it. where do you buy selcon? i thought selcon was more for if your raising brine shrimp to make them more worthwhile to feed to your fish?

Richard

[christyf5]

Selcon is a mixture of essential fatty acids and some vitamins thrown in for good measure. It is often used to "coat" adult brine shrimp (they ingest it as well) as a way of getting more nutrition into fish as adult brine shrimp aren't very nutritious on their own (kind of like popcorn versus a granola bar). If you coat the food you are feeding to fish, with selcon, it is a good way of helping to boost their immune system in order to fight off any infection they might have as well as promote faster healing.

http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...n-Concentrate/

Kent Zoe works much the same way although it doesn't contain the fatty acids.

http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...oe-Marine-4oz/