Please help...My Yellow Tang have HLLE

[LittleFish1]

Hi all,

My 2.5" Yellow Tang started to have HLLE at it's tail. I feed all my fish with dry food everyday & only brime/mysis shrimps on Sunday.

Dry food: Sera Marine granular, Tetra Marine flake, Kent Platinum (reef herbivore & chromaxtreme), HBH krill pallet. I soak my fish food with Kent garlic or Kent Zoe Marine.

Is there anyway i could improve my fish diet to cure my YT HLLE?

Thanks very much.

 

[tazdevil]

Several. First, start giving some form of prepackaged seaweed (I believe its called nori) that you place in a clip and the tang can leisurely munch on.

Second, soak your foods in some vitamin drops, and consider garlic as well.

Third, what size tank is this tang in (no I don't wish to start a flame war, but there can be a known cause/effect involved here if the tank is too small for a tang).

Fourth, what are the tanks other inhabitants? Possibility of stress inducing this problem as well.

 

[LittleFish1]

I know someone will come after me for this. Anyway, here goes:

29gal tank with LR & some Soft corals. Have 1 Blue damsel, 1 Long Nose Hawk, 1 Maroon Clown & 1 Six-line Wrasse.

Seems plenty of swimming space to me because not that much LR. Also non of the fish is harrasing the YT.

Water param is all OK.

Thanks.

 

[naesco]

Son, Please, you need to remove that poor tang from your tank. It is much much too small for it and it shows even though you are trying your best to feed it right.
Return it to the LFS that sold it to you and get something small.
Thank you for being honest with us.

 

[Minh Nguyen]

Your tank condition is not OK, because if it is OK, then your tang would not developed HLLE.
HLLE is usually cause by poor nutrition and poor water condition in general. Some people feel that HLLE can be from stray voltage also. I would make sure that the water condition is great, meaning at the very least have very low Nitrates (lots of water changes). Feed your tang marine vegetation (nori, seaweed, whatever). At lease feed him a variety of terrestrial vegetation like broccoli, cabbage, spinaches ect... Make sure you blanched these vegetations before feed them to the tang.
The very best thing you can do is to remove the tang and get it to a larger tank. I have bought several sick fish from LFS and bring them back to health include tangs with bad HLLE. I have never have a fish developed HLLE under my care.
Good luck
Minh Nguyen