HELP! Yellow Tang Turning RED

[scubatom]

Ok, I come home last night and check on the tank only to find that my Yellow Tang has a red coloration over his body?? I can't find any info on this and I've never had any probs before. Water contents are good, and everything else in the tank is fine...

 

[CLAY CRUDEN]

What are you feeding? Sometimes pigments come through the skin and change the colors. What are your lights like? Is it a severe spectrum shift? Do a water change and call the boards in the morning...
luck

 

[Anonymous]

Is it under the skin like a pigment change or does it look like streaks of blood?

The first would most likely be from what is being fed. And the second would be hemoraging under the skin. It sometimes is accompanied by HLLE(head and lateral line disease).

GL

Dan

 

[Tanu]

You said 'last NIGHT', so do you mean that the tank was dark already?

My yellow tang also has a reddish color at night, together with some other colored (white, if i remember things right) accents on it.

I think it is just night color: red is almost invisible in the blue light normally seen on reefs at night.

When this was during daytime, I really don't know what's going on with your tang..

Tanu
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