fish disease
I came home yesterday to find my newly acquired powered brown tang dead covered in white fluff just wanted to see if anyone had ideas as to what may have been the cause to me it doesnt look like ich but I could be wrong (see pic below). I'm kicking myself for not pre treating the tank given the type of fish.
The night before it was fine, was pecking at nori but not feeding full on, but to be expected as it had only been in the tank for a few days. I left for work around 4am had a quick look over at the tank and did see it moving about in there but it was rather dark and didn't want to startle it turning the lights on, misses said she did see it do a few laps of the tank when she left for work but didn't really have a close look at it. Got home at 6pm to find it dead.
The story with this fish is I bought it site unseen from a photo the LFS put up on their FB page they had 2 powered browns in stock, an LFS I have used many time before and have found is good. To my eye the pic was of an A.Japonicus I'm still 99% sure the pic was, however what I picked up was an A.nigricans both known as powdered brown tangs (common names are shit) I didn't think too much of it till later when I read a few pages online such as http://www.wetwebmedia.com/GoldRimSs.htm which puts the japonicus as a good tank hardy species and the nigricans as a disease riddled crap fish..... oh great.
My main question is what now? I want to try again with another proper A.japonicus (in a few weeks time) this was in my QT and am going to leave it up and running till I get my last couple of fish, onyx clowns and tang. So do I treat my QT and leave it treated so when I quarantine my next fish any pest will die, more shock to the fish but I know plenty of people do it.
This was all fluff, when I picked the fish up a fair bit of it fell off
The night before it was fine, was pecking at nori but not feeding full on, but to be expected as it had only been in the tank for a few days. I left for work around 4am had a quick look over at the tank and did see it moving about in there but it was rather dark and didn't want to startle it turning the lights on, misses said she did see it do a few laps of the tank when she left for work but didn't really have a close look at it. Got home at 6pm to find it dead.
The story with this fish is I bought it site unseen from a photo the LFS put up on their FB page they had 2 powered browns in stock, an LFS I have used many time before and have found is good. To my eye the pic was of an A.Japonicus I'm still 99% sure the pic was, however what I picked up was an A.nigricans both known as powdered brown tangs (common names are shit) I didn't think too much of it till later when I read a few pages online such as http://www.wetwebmedia.com/GoldRimSs.htm which puts the japonicus as a good tank hardy species and the nigricans as a disease riddled crap fish..... oh great.
My main question is what now? I want to try again with another proper A.japonicus (in a few weeks time) this was in my QT and am going to leave it up and running till I get my last couple of fish, onyx clowns and tang. So do I treat my QT and leave it treated so when I quarantine my next fish any pest will die, more shock to the fish but I know plenty of people do it.
This was all fluff, when I picked the fish up a fair bit of it fell off
