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01-30-2011, 05:10 PM
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sailfin with HHLE
I have a red sea sailfin ~ 8" that has developed HHLE on one side of her head.
She gets a sheet of nori a day (shared with1 other tang), frozen food supplemented with vit C, and occasionally some pellets. water params -sg=1025 -nitrite =2 -ammonia=0 -temp = 26C/79F -ph = 7.8 (low, but it is steady at this since I set the tank up 2 years ago) no stray voltage Any other ideas on what could be causing this? It seems to be getting worse instead of better. She is queen of the tank, so I dont believe it is stress.
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01-30-2011, 07:44 PM
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do you run carbon? If so you should remove it as I have read that some study show that carbon can cause HLLE in tangs.
what type of frozen food do you give? I suggest PE mysis if you can find it. Quote:
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01-30-2011, 08:27 PM
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I have one with the same issue. It had absolutely no top fin when I got it. Now it is showing some good recovery. I have been feed with a mix of formula one pellet and formula two pellets, PE Mysis.
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02-09-2011, 12:20 AM
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What types of nori are you feeding it?
I don't know if it was just a myth, but someone told me once that brown algae (Phaeophyceae genera) contains a bunch of chemicals that help ward off HLLE, and that sheets of green nori might not be nutritious or diverse enough on their own. I have bought every colour and species of algae sheets that I can find (species from the Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta, and Phaeophyta families) and feed them on a rotating basis. Just make sure that it's actually different algae species, and not cheap food coloured ones.
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