Whitespot on my regal tang

[Karakeys]

I am looking for some advice about whitespot. Last week my young regal tang ha a whitespot which fell off after a few hours. I started using garlic guard and all was well till yesterday when in the evening the wee guy was covered in spots. I am dosing the tank with esha oodinex which i bought last week - this is a three day treatment and the tang seems back to normal today.

What i would like to know apart from garlic guard are there any other preventative treatments available for whitespot.

 

[Navarre]

First of all you must consider why the tang has whitespot.
If the tank is less than 100 gallons than the tank is too small and it will stress the fish.

As for treatments...
Oodinex is very good and i have used it with sucess on my reefs. Garlic is also very good so you have both bases covered here.

Next is a UV sterilizer. This will kill pathigens that pass under the Ultra viooet light units.. Whilts it not 100% effective its yet another weapon against whitespot.

Lastly comes the Ozone. Its a truely awseome bit of kit but not to be messed with. Ozone kills anything and everything that comes into contact with it. (Includeing fish/corals/you! So its not to be used lightly. It does however make the water crystal clear and will nuke whitespot up to 3000 times more effectively than a UV unit.

 

[Karakeys]

Thanks for that we will consider maybe a uv unit. Ozone sounds scary but interesting - i will look into that in more detail.

My tank is 150 us gallons so it should be large enough for my regal tang. At the mo. apart from him i only have 2 wreck fish, 2 percula clowns, 1 coral beauty, 1 blood shrimp, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 candy shrimp, a huge crab that came with my living rock (50 kilos) 3 anenomes, 6 hermits and 10 turbo snails.

 

[Navarre]

Ok tank seems large enough.
As a side note you need lots more cleanup crew.. 1 snail.hermit per gallon of tank.

Ok back on subject...
Regal tangs are notorious for getting whitespot and its not unusual for htem to get it every now and then. Regals and powder tangs will get whitespot when placed in a tank no matter what precations you put in place. However if you treat them well and keep them feding well then they will have the strength to fight it off. Perhaps it will return every now and then but of course the tang should be strong enough to fight infection.

UV is good but make sure you get the correct flow through it. if you flow to fast then it smply wont spend long enough time in the tube and wont get killed. Too long and it will kill everything including goodplankton life etc.
Each uv usually recomends the righ tflow rate with it so be sure you get a pump to match