my daughter's sick tang

My tang is very sick, I don't think he's going to make it. She went down hill fast. My damsel attacked her, and now she's very stress and lost a lot of weight, that you could see her bones . I treated her with amoxicillin the day before yesterday. Today her sores are closed. I've been soaking cyclop-eeze with selcon and garlic and target feeding her a few times a day for 3 days now. I added vita chem to her diet. Today she's not laying on the sand, but she is not swimming around. Should I add Vitamin C to her diet?

 

do you have a hosptial tank if you do put a piece of pvc pipe in it and your tang in the tank if it is in the main tank it's going to be picked on why it recovering and if you can get the damsel out of the tank.

 

I have the water warming up. But I can't get the damsel. Do you know how well Vitamin C work on a i'll fish?

 

no i have not used it maybe someone with more knowledge will chime in. Good luck.

 

Your on the right track by treating with antibiotics with all those wounds. If the fish is still eating then you have a very good chance of saving it. Get it into the QT asap and leave the lights out for a day to reduce stress. Add some of your tank water to the QT tank. I would also try feeding some frozen algae like formula 2. Good luck!

 

You seem to be doing everything right. They say that garlic and vitamin c work very well. Good luck!

 

She didn't make it. She started to look better and started to eat. There're so delicate when there're babies. I have to get a new one before my daughter notice that the fish is a goner. After seeing Finding Nemo she wanted a Dory fish. Thanks for the advice.

 

Do not add another one until you get the aggresive damsel out of the tank. It will just keep happening. If you cant get it out then make big changes to the rock and other structures in the tank while you are acclimating the new tang then use a net to add the tang to the bottom of the tank once acclimated. Leave the lights out for 2 days and hope for the best

 

Thank you. I told my daughter that her fish is playing hide and seek. I hope that I could get the damsel out. I've been triyng for a few months to get him out of the tank.

 

what kind of damsels is it that you have? it is prolly a agressive feeder i had a wrasse in my tank that no matter what i did i coudnt get him out. this may sound off the wall but i went to the bait shop bought the smallest hook i could find put a piece of krill on it and snagged em in the lip. he was very fast and very aggressive toward food he had no serious injury so i put him in the quarenteen tank for a few days made sure he was ok then i traded him in at the local fish store. it may sound weird but it worked and i was able to trade him in for a nice foxface tang it was my last idea before ripping 110 pounds of rock out of the tank if i didnt have to