Reese
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My yellow tang showed yellow blotches on both sides near his tail and underside a few days ago. I've since done a number of water changes and have kept nori soaked in a vitamin and some gracilaria in the tank. I hooked my UV filter back up. I left it out of the setup since I recently changed the sump from a 8.5 gallon wet/dry to a 29 gallon wet/dry sump/fuge I put together. I've also slowed down feedings to keep the water clean.
The blotches got smaller but haven't completely gone away. Based on what I've read I'm assuming that this is a bacterial infection. What is the safest product to use to treat the tang? Of course I'd prefer to treat the main tank but if that's not possible, I could set up a QT. The main is a 75 gallon. Other inhabitants: Flame Angel, two oscellaris clowns, royal gramma, yellow watchman goby(but I haven't seen him in a while), a BTA, skunk cleaner shrimp, bunch of hermits, turbos, nasarrius snails, and a few sand sifting stars...
Also, possible culprits?
I've just set up a refugium and added new live rock to it.
I've added a sun coral and have been target feeding it to get it to open its polyps.
I'm no longer using store bought RO/DI water but instead using aged RO water from a filter I installed.
This seems to coincide with a bit more green algae growing on the back wall and rocks.
Thanks...
The blotches got smaller but haven't completely gone away. Based on what I've read I'm assuming that this is a bacterial infection. What is the safest product to use to treat the tang? Of course I'd prefer to treat the main tank but if that's not possible, I could set up a QT. The main is a 75 gallon. Other inhabitants: Flame Angel, two oscellaris clowns, royal gramma, yellow watchman goby(but I haven't seen him in a while), a BTA, skunk cleaner shrimp, bunch of hermits, turbos, nasarrius snails, and a few sand sifting stars...
Also, possible culprits?
I've just set up a refugium and added new live rock to it.
I've added a sun coral and have been target feeding it to get it to open its polyps.
I'm no longer using store bought RO/DI water but instead using aged RO water from a filter I installed.
This seems to coincide with a bit more green algae growing on the back wall and rocks.
Thanks...
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