HLLE?
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Reefer5640
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Sure looks like it to me. Common things to consider/check for. Stray voltage in the tank (add grounding rod/remove component causing stray voltage), poor water conditions and stressful environment, running low grade carbon, treating with copper (I assume you don’t have copper in that tank), lack of vitamins/nutrition. Do you have selcone/vita-chem or some kind of vitamin supplement you can feed? Is it getting bullied? Is your tank clean/good water quality?
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Can you post a picture taken under white light? I see some epithelial thinning around the head, but I also think I see something cooking on its tail. Check the library file section here, I posted my HLLE article there last week.Hi guys, is the HLLE? If yes is there something I can do to cure apart from feeding nori and soaking her food in garlic?
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I dont think its getting bullied as in the tank i only have her and a sailfin (they went in together), two chromis and two bangai cardinals. I am currently threatening with polyb medic. I don’t think i can find selcon in malta but i am going to buy vitamin m by Brightwell aquatics. I was using carbon but stopped eight days ago
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How’s your water quality? Do you do water changes? Have you checked for stray voltage? Any kind of reputable vitamin supplement is good. Best thing you can do is keep good water quality, low stress environment, and a nutritious diet with vitamin supplement, eliminate stray voltage if there is any. As far as the carbon goes I think it’s just low quality carbon that is an issue but I’m not sure on that. I’m no fish expert. I can only speak from my experience as a hobbyist and what worked for me. I had a Blue hippo that made a full recovery with very little scaring. I too stopped the use of carbon along with plenty of algae to graze on and maintained very clean water by keeping my filter changed out and doing regular water changes and keeping detritus vacuumed.
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Fish are strange. Some can be more affected by minor issues than others. Just a little stress could cause this problem. Tangs can be stressed easily when adding something like lanthanum or even carbon that isn’t of great quality or isn’t rinsed well.
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Stray voltage does not cause HLLE, it is a "red herring". HLLE itself only affects certain species of fish, some develop it easier than others. Sharks and rays never get it for example. Clownfish rarely do. Tangs very frequently do. The only proven cause is excess carbon use.
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