sick kole tang

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what is this?
Large light areas on is 'skin'


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it is also swimming poorly

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just noticed the red line at it's tail, you can see it in the pic
it is on both sides

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it's isolated now in a 10 gallon. i have no meds so i hope being alone will help

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not doing so well.
lying sideways. i dont expect it to last an hour.

it looked fine last time i saw it (last night) so all of this happened during the day today.

if you have seen this and it is contagious, at this point that's really all i want to know. searching google turned up nothing.

[cokelon]

that red line looks to me like a scalpel, a lot of the surgeons have it if not most of them. so nothing to worry about that one is used for protection.

check this, it sounds like marine velvet but i'm no expert by the symptoms sounds like it..
here is a link:

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/disease/marinevelvet.php

good luck

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i think it was stress. though I dont know what could cause it. its colour seems to be coming back and it seems to have more strength.

I don't know what to think.
I odnt think its any sort of growth or bacteria. reason is it wasnt on the skin, it is the skin. the color changed.

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incredibly it is still alve this morning.
it was dark,, but it looks like its color is almost all gone. when i left it last night it looked like it may bounce back.

If it survives the day can you recommend anything i should put in the water to help[ it regain its strength?

[93GTCANADA]

My clownfish did that but it was brock. Almost the same has marine velvet. I read not only clowns can catch brock.

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doesn't velvet produce a coating or some sort of growth on the skin? There is none, just a discoloration.
I'll read up on Brock.

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im having trouble finding anything about brock.
does it go by another name?

[RoxyDog]

I think he meant "brook" as in brookynella (sp?).  I have no idea what wrong with your fishy but good luck.   

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Thanks Foxy,
(i saw a car with the license plate [ICANHAS] the other day.
it was on an expensive Audi. Figures.

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I looked up Brooklynella and I'm not convinced it is it.
The skin really has no evidence of any sort of fungus or growth.
Think of it as looking like that skin condition that causes a person's skin to be different patches of light and dark pigment. Just a change in color.
Anyways, I don't expect it will survive the day.
Pisses me off. I just got it last weekend and it was fine all week!

[93GTCANADA]

i thought his skin was covered by something by the pics. So what you are saying his skin just lost it's color ? umm that is weird.

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ya, this morning he was mostly that light color.
last night it looked liek his color had returned.

[salvini55]

is he eating food? try soaking frozen food in garlic. you can use the store bought stuff or press your own and let the food soak for 10 mins. Sounds like the best thing you could do right now is get it eating

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I'm at work now but i left it with a bit of nori when I left this morning.
sigh.

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Lfs says nobody else from that shipment has fallen I'll. Could it be the algae it's been grazing on? Green and red hair is mostly what's there.

[Fishhead89]

try some pellets with Garlic - Garlic is great for their fishes immune system. I toss in a few in the morning, stock up the nori 2xper day, and feed mysis at night... but i have multiple tangs in the tank.

I have a kole too - one of my favorite fish.