azimnitski
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Please help me to identify disease of tang. There are some brown spots which appeared recently and i see they doubled in a week or two. See photo.
Help to identify disease
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Looks to me like HLLE, maybe #fishmedics have a better idea thoughPlease help me to identify disease of tang. There are some brown spots which appeared recently and i see they doubled in a week or two. See photo.
Sharkbait19
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I agree it looks like hlle. It is often brought on by poor diet and/or water quality, so if you could list your params and what you’ve been feeding it would help for how to correct it.
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azimnitski
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Alk-9.5dKH , ammonia=0, Ca=450, Mg=1275, nitrate=20ppm (was more, up to 50 some weeks ago, gradually pushing it down), nitrite 0, phosphate=0,01, ph=8.05, t=79F, salinity=35, ORP=300
Running skimmer 24/7 and sock filter, dont have any carbon or any other filtration.
Food:
seaweed extreme
Rod's food. three weed blend
marine flakes - omega one
Sharkbait19
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Definitely work on keeping the nitrate down. Otherwise, try broadening the diet (many of the lrs foods are good) and consider adding vitamins like Selcon to the diet.
Magic031707
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Agree with the Selcon. I would throw in some Nori 2-3 times a week.
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azimnitski
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No QT unfortunatelly. Bought and set QT just 3 weeks ago. Display is 125 gallons.
UPDATE: disease stopped progressing. Spots got smaller but did not disappear. I'd say they got 30-40%% smaller.
Managed to keep nitrates down to 5-10. Start feeding frozen food in addition +vitamins.
