Another sick fish!

[nickg]

Man this can be frustrating. I don't get it? Water params are darn near perfect. The purple tang gets ich. Now the first fish I put in this reef tank, a perc. clown has some sort of brown growth on his white collar, and is swimming in a jawfish hole all depressed like. If I lose the tang and the clown I may ditch al the fish and stick to coral only, they seem to doing great. I don't think I could deal with both the tang and the clown kicking off!

[Spanky]

Nick

Walk me through this again.

What size is your tank?
Did you get the UV? what size? what manf? what's the flow rate to kill parasites?
How do you have the UV plumbed? with what size pump?

Does the tang still show signs of ick? I know a lot of times you'll hear, it's stressed - reduce the stress. However, taking a wild fish, packing, shipping, packing shipping, etc, placing in a tank (I don't care how big it is), feeding different foods, adjusting to different feeding methods and times (not being available), territory issues, and on and on. I feel there's no way to do this without stress anyway. Believe it or not, most will adjust, given time. What you have to do is keep it healthy until that time comes.

Are you still feeding the garlic?

Jerel

[nickg]

Jerl,
It's a 55, with a 4watt uv, and a rio 600 to pump the water through. Plumbed with flex hose. It's the Angstrom 2537, and was rated for up to 75 gals. Tang still shows signs of ich, but it has not slowed him down. The tank is about 6 months old, and I test water params close to everyday. KH was a little low, so I raised slowly with DKH buffer. Everybody eats the same thing, I soak frozen prime reef cubes in garlic and selcon, I add some crushed Aqudine shrimp pellets, and a pinch of Omega One marine flakes and mix it all up. I also put shreds of nori under pieces of lr for tang to graze on. Lps & sps corals are growing great. Xenia is fraging as we speak. I may cut the photo period down to help control the green algae on the glass, but there is really no algea anywhwere else. I run 4 4' 110 watt vho's for 13 hours a day. Oh yah, there's 2 neon gobies, and a cleaner shrimp, but I havn't seen anyone cleaning the fish. If you have any suggestions on more I can do to help the fish, Iwould GREATLY apprieciate it. I have had the clown since the start, and the tang for about 4 months. The wife and Payton (the rottweiler), and myself have become quite attached to the little scaley guys.

[Spanky]

Nick

I think I see why your UV is not working, unless you mean 40w instead of 4w.

UV manf are their own worst enemies. They rate their UV's for fresh water bacterial/algae control and even at that, their recommendations are minimal at best.

Figure your tank at 50gals, you need a tank turnover of 4/5 times per hour, so you'll need a UV rated to kill PARASITES at a flow rate of 250gph. Which I would imagine would be about a 40w UV. Then you'll need to match that with a pump that pumps no more than the recommended flow rate through the UV. This you can check with a one gal container and a stop watch.

Continue feeding the garlic, etc.

If you're not quarantining your livestock, you really need to start that too.

HTH
Jerel