Yellow tang problem
- Thread starter Imbarrie
- Start date
That's HLLE, Head Lateral Line Disease, in your case it's concentrated on the head region. It's mainly due to improper nutrition and from the belly of the tang it looks like he has not been eating much IMO
- Location
- Ronkonkoma, NY
Hey Barrie, I would try a high grade pellet or flake food soaked in Selcon or Vitamin C
- Location
- Bronx, ny
- Location
- Long Island
Hey Barrie,
Try pulling him to quarantine him and feed him kelp pellets soaked in vitachem. The same thing happen to my yellow tang and he unfortunely didnt make it before I pulled him. Any of your fish picking on him and stressing him out? My angelfish always had beef wit the yellow tang but got along for the most part. He just passed on sunday, the day he was going to get pulled and seperated.
Try pulling him to quarantine him and feed him kelp pellets soaked in vitachem. The same thing happen to my yellow tang and he unfortunely didnt make it before I pulled him. Any of your fish picking on him and stressing him out? My angelfish always had beef wit the yellow tang but got along for the most part. He just passed on sunday, the day he was going to get pulled and seperated.
- Location
- South Huntington
+1 on the selcon or vitamin c. are you feeding the tang any greens?
If you don't want to spend money on drops and such, get yourself 1 or 2 heads of garlic, add some R/O water and put it a food processor. Let in get chopped up and almost liquified and then just soak your food in that. I even had my fish eating straight garlic and they seemed to like it for some reason.
Speaking of greens, what kind of greens can you feed tangs that we consume as well? I don't want to buy any of that dried algae sheet stuff
- Location
- Queens, NY
Why don't u like it? My fish luv the Nori..keeps them active and healthy. Actually it's good for u too..
- Location
- Miami
i use to give romaine lettuce and never had a problem
Thanks Ken, I'll have to give that a try when I get home.
HLLE would not cause a fish to stop eating (though that is what you are dealing with there).
It's important for tangs to have seaweed available on a daily basis for grazing. For all fish it is also important to provide a 'staple' food - aside from the mysis, meaty foods that we tend to offer. The Staple food should be fed for at least one meal per day and be a quality food that provides the vitamins that fish require.
Assuming you have other fish in the tank - what do you usually feed?
It's important for tangs to have seaweed available on a daily basis for grazing. For all fish it is also important to provide a 'staple' food - aside from the mysis, meaty foods that we tend to offer. The Staple food should be fed for at least one meal per day and be a quality food that provides the vitamins that fish require.
Assuming you have other fish in the tank - what do you usually feed?
- Location
- Wallingford, CT
Frozen romaine lettuce is what we use to give them 30 yrs ago before someone figured out nori sheets.
Romaine has no nutritional value for the fish.
- Location
- sanctuary city
now i'm reading that activated carbon may cause this also...
i run carbon 24/7
i run carbon 24/7
- Location
- Ronkonkoma, NY
IMO the lateral line color loss comes from:
1) Keeping your salt low (to prevent ick)
2) Running Copper constantly as a preventative for ick
3) Using mostly frozen foods with low protein content instead of a regular diet of high grade dry food ( pellets or flake) and supplementing with frozen.
You will rarely see a tang or angel get Lateral Line in a healthy reef tank with proper nutrition. We recently gave a customer a Purple Tang that was returned to the store by another customer that was healthy but horrible scarred. We are talking Phantom of the Opera scarred. After 2 months of vitamin soaked spectrum food the lateral line is almost all gone. If I can I will get the pics from the customer and post the before and after
Hope this helps
Andy
1) Keeping your salt low (to prevent ick)
2) Running Copper constantly as a preventative for ick
3) Using mostly frozen foods with low protein content instead of a regular diet of high grade dry food ( pellets or flake) and supplementing with frozen.
You will rarely see a tang or angel get Lateral Line in a healthy reef tank with proper nutrition. We recently gave a customer a Purple Tang that was returned to the store by another customer that was healthy but horrible scarred. We are talking Phantom of the Opera scarred. After 2 months of vitamin soaked spectrum food the lateral line is almost all gone. If I can I will get the pics from the customer and post the before and after
Hope this helps
Andy
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