Hippo Tang
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Sounds like an outbreak of ich. Hippos are notorious ich magnets. Did you quarentine and treat it before adding it to your tank?
Keep temp as stable as possible. Feed often, and it should pull through. Many on this board would recommend treating w/ garlic for 30 days. Neon gobies are good also.
I have a hippo that had an outbreak, but seems OK now.
What are you feeding it? It should eat often, and a varied diet. I feed mine spirulina and mysis shrimp. It will occasionally pick at nori, but it diet is much more meaty than other tangs.
Ernie
Keep temp as stable as possible. Feed often, and it should pull through. Many on this board would recommend treating w/ garlic for 30 days. Neon gobies are good also.
I have a hippo that had an outbreak, but seems OK now.
What are you feeding it? It should eat often, and a varied diet. I feed mine spirulina and mysis shrimp. It will occasionally pick at nori, but it diet is much more meaty than other tangs.
Ernie
Quarentine wouldn't have done a damn bit of good because the fish can get ill just from the stress of being added to the new tank.
Hippo need to eat. ALOT. Don't feed him crap like flakes which have no real nutritional value (flake is a good quickie, but usually results in HLLE and weakened immune systems). Get him some mysis shrimp, preferably Piscine Energetic's Mysis and feed him that every day. For the parasite outbreaks, soak the thawed frozen food in a liquid garlic like Kent's Garlic Extreme, or Kyolic from GNC. Make sure he gets some occasional seaweed, but the main staple of his diet should be mysis or similar meaty foods.
Hippo need to eat. ALOT. Don't feed him crap like flakes which have no real nutritional value (flake is a good quickie, but usually results in HLLE and weakened immune systems). Get him some mysis shrimp, preferably Piscine Energetic's Mysis and feed him that every day. For the parasite outbreaks, soak the thawed frozen food in a liquid garlic like Kent's Garlic Extreme, or Kyolic from GNC. Make sure he gets some occasional seaweed, but the main staple of his diet should be mysis or similar meaty foods.
I always get agitated when people talk about how bad flake food is. I buy Formula One and Two flake food, and unless they are ripping me off at Ocean Nutrition, it is said to contain everything that their cubed frozen food contains. MARINE flake food is fine for fish when part of a complete breakfast..er..part of a balanced diet.
Hippo tangs are the shyest of all the tangs IME and they always start out a little sickly looking in a new home, usually having shriveled stomach areas and looking really bad, because I don't think they respond well to fish store tanks. Once you have had the fish for awhile, he will be the healthiest fish in your tank, certainly the piggiest. They are just PAINFULLY shy, and that makes them stress out, but just feed it well without treating it and it should be fine. The "flashing" behavior can be an attempt to dislodge a parasite, or a territorial aggravation response. Either way, it is much safer to let nature run it's course and keep your water params good.
Hippo tangs are the shyest of all the tangs IME and they always start out a little sickly looking in a new home, usually having shriveled stomach areas and looking really bad, because I don't think they respond well to fish store tanks. Once you have had the fish for awhile, he will be the healthiest fish in your tank, certainly the piggiest. They are just PAINFULLY shy, and that makes them stress out, but just feed it well without treating it and it should be fine. The "flashing" behavior can be an attempt to dislodge a parasite, or a territorial aggravation response. Either way, it is much safer to let nature run it's course and keep your water params good.
Hippos need a meaty diet, flake alone IMO is not healthy.
I feed flake every day (spirulina) and all my fish love it. I love doughnuts, though so I also feed mysid shrimp almost every day, formula 1 twice a week and I regularly soak food in vitachem or selecon.
My understanding is that mysis shrimp are about the most nutritious stuff you can feed your fish.
Anyone know of any good blaces to buy bulk mysis shrimp on-line?
Ernie
I feed flake every day (spirulina) and all my fish love it. I love doughnuts, though so I also feed mysid shrimp almost every day, formula 1 twice a week and I regularly soak food in vitachem or selecon.
My understanding is that mysis shrimp are about the most nutritious stuff you can feed your fish.
Anyone know of any good blaces to buy bulk mysis shrimp on-line?
Ernie
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by LiveRockr:
<strong>I always get agitated when people talk about how bad flake food is. I buy Formula One and Two flake food, and unless they are ripping me off at Ocean Nutrition, it is said to contain everything that their cubed frozen food contains. </strong><hr></blockquote>
MOST of the marine flakes on the market contain a large percentage of fish meal. Care to post the ingredients of OcNut's flakes? I don't have any here. Only flake on the market that comes from REAL fish i.e. cod, tuna, salmon etc is Omega Sea's Omega One line. Even that is a poor daily diet but a decent quickie food. Don't count on it to do anything for the health of your fish.
<strong>I always get agitated when people talk about how bad flake food is. I buy Formula One and Two flake food, and unless they are ripping me off at Ocean Nutrition, it is said to contain everything that their cubed frozen food contains. </strong><hr></blockquote>
MOST of the marine flakes on the market contain a large percentage of fish meal. Care to post the ingredients of OcNut's flakes? I don't have any here. Only flake on the market that comes from REAL fish i.e. cod, tuna, salmon etc is Omega Sea's Omega One line. Even that is a poor daily diet but a decent quickie food. Don't count on it to do anything for the health of your fish.
The comments about flakes as a staple or true.
When you first get a tang, using garlic extract as a preventative for ich is a necessary thing IMO.
Dry food like flakes, dried shrimp etc is better for this because the dry foods absorb more of the garlic and getting as much of it into the fish is the whole idea of the treatment.
When you first get a tang, using garlic extract as a preventative for ich is a necessary thing IMO.
Dry food like flakes, dried shrimp etc is better for this because the dry foods absorb more of the garlic and getting as much of it into the fish is the whole idea of the treatment.
Whats wrong with Omega One soaked with selcon? Thats what I feed every day, along with mysid shrimp every other day, and other frozen none gel frozen foods. My fish wont eat the gel binded foods. Flake food is easy to feed before work, and every one gobbles it up.
My Hippo, still new about 6 months in my tank is supposedly tank raised but still shy. Hes out when every I'm not around and I can spy on him from the couch. He had Ich at first but I got rifd of it using kents garlic extreme. When I moved the tanks last wednesday I coudnt find the hippo any where in my tank. After all the SPS and rock were romoved there were all the fish but the hippo. After I reset up the tank I didnt see him, coudnt see much in the clouds. The next day though there he was swimming around, I suppose he took a ride in the live rock some where.
In any case a great fish!
My Hippo, still new about 6 months in my tank is supposedly tank raised but still shy. Hes out when every I'm not around and I can spy on him from the couch. He had Ich at first but I got rifd of it using kents garlic extreme. When I moved the tanks last wednesday I coudnt find the hippo any where in my tank. After all the SPS and rock were romoved there were all the fish but the hippo. After I reset up the tank I didnt see him, coudnt see much in the clouds. The next day though there he was swimming around, I suppose he took a ride in the live rock some where.
In any case a great fish!
Just a question to the above post, when they told you the fish was tank raised did they mean they grew it up in aquariums, or he was born in captivity?
Just want to make sure you understand that that tang has not been bread in captivity yet.
Goodluck with the Ich!
Just want to make sure you understand that that tang has not been bread in captivity yet.
Goodluck with the Ich!
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Hippo tangs are not tank raised (bred in captivity) but tank reared, meaning captured very small when survival rates are very low and then raised to a sellable age in tanks. Inland Aquatics has them. Tank reared have a lower impact on the reef and have a higher survival rate than adult specimines collected and sold as adults.
I got one from Inland Aquatics about three months ago. At that time it was silver-dollar size and has since doubled in size.
Ernie
Hippo tangs are not tank raised (bred in captivity) but tank reared, meaning captured very small when survival rates are very low and then raised to a sellable age in tanks. Inland Aquatics has them. Tank reared have a lower impact on the reef and have a higher survival rate than adult specimines collected and sold as adults.
I got one from Inland Aquatics about three months ago. At that time it was silver-dollar size and has since doubled in size.
Ernie
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