Does my tang have parasites

ongquang21 · #1 03-15-2018, 05:57 AM

Hi Greg,
What should i do next if it turns out as you suspected

tang daddy · #2 03-21-2018, 03:07 PM

DO you think a couple cleaner wrasses could help?

WarDog · #3 03-21-2018, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by tang daddy

DO you think a couple cleaner wrasses could help?

This would be my first course of action...

I would also take a specimen as Greg mentioned and proceed accordingly.

gregzz4 · #4 03-22-2018, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ongquang21

Hi Greg,
What should i do next if it turns out as you suspected

Google is your friend. Put some parasites under a microscope and compare pics online. Try every search term you can think of and set your search engine to 'images'.
Once you determine what you have, research how to deal with it.

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Originally Posted by tang daddy

DO you think a couple cleaner wrasses could help?

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Originally Posted by WarDog

This would be my first course of action...

I would also take a specimen as Greg mentioned and proceed accordingly.

Depending on what it is, wrasses may or may not be interested in it as a food source, and may not even go after it if it is food. Not all cleaner wrasses 'know' how to clean fish.

I've had cleaner shrimp run away from fish that tried to 'park' themselves in a perfect spot, only to be ignored.