Before you transfer your fish to another tank, take everything out so you
can catch them......
Or you can just medicate the water with Kent Rx P Parasite Treatment or
Mardel Fresh & Salt Water Maracide or Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Erythromycin.

What fish do you have again ?


"George Patterson" wrote in message
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KurtG wrote:

My tang has been itching itself for weeks/months, and often allows the
4-stripe damsels to "chew" on him. However, he's a nut case anyway, so I
didn't worry about it (maybe a newbie error). Now my Coral Beauty has
some bright white dots on it, and it's starting to itch as well.

Could this be marine itch?

Sounds like ich (oodinimum). Has the tang been going through a cycle of
this? That is, does the tang exhibit symptoms for about a week and then
have no symptoms for about a week? And when the tang has no symptoms, do
there seem to be a bunch of very tiny white dots doing loops in the water?

If so, that's what you have.

Take *all* the fish out and transfer them to a hospital tank. Treat them
there with copper (I prefer "CopperSafe") and keep them there for 4 weeks
to allow the parasites in the main tank to die.

George Patterson
Forgive your enemies. But always remember who they are.