Tomini tang with white freckles

[Tom S.]

Hi all, I've had this Tomini tang for about a month and he's been perfectly happy. A little shy at first but now it swims around the tank like it owns it. Tonight I found some white spots on its face. Looking around online it seems like it might be scratches from swimming around? I'm not sure I agree with this. I've recently added a cleaner shrimp, conch, and 2 snails. I also have a 6 line Wrasse, lawn mower blenny, and two clowns in the tank. Yesterday I added 5 small coral frags 2 zoanthids, 1 candy cane, one red war coral and a sympodium. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might be?

 

[fishguy242]

hi,the more info the better, short video of fish if possible.

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[Tom S.]

hi,the more info the better, short video of fish if possible.

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Salinity at 1.026
Phosphate .06
Nitrate 30
I had what I though was a bacterial bloom in the last 25 hours but it's since cleared up. The water was chalky and had some larger white particles floating around.
I swapped out red ogo from my refugium and put in some cheato from algea barn yesterday. It came with free brine shrimp so I dumped that in as well.

That's really all I can think of. I thought maybe the wrasse might have been giving it a hard time but to be honest it looks like the tang is more aggressive toward the wrasse.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi all, I've had this Tomini tang for about a month and he's been perfectly happy. A little shy at first but now it swims around the tank like it owns it. Tonight I found some white spots on its face. Looking around online it seems like it might be scratches from swimming around? I'm not sure I agree with this. I've recently added a cleaner shrimp, conch, and 2 snails. I also have a 6 line Wrasse, lawn mower blenny, and two clowns in the tank. Yesterday I added 5 small coral frags 2 zoanthids, 1 candy cane, one red war coral and a sympodium. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might be?

Tough to see. If the spots look like grains of salt, it could be ich. From what I can see though it may be the start of head and lateral line erosion, disfiguring, but not fatal.
A short video or clearer pics would help clarify things.
Jay

 

[vetteguy53081]

I agree on presence of HLLE and likely a dietary issue although water quality can be a contributor. Tank looks awefully clean.
Is this a newer setup ?
Is this a first fish ?
What foods are you using ?
What test kits are you using and what is your current ammonia-Ph-Nitrate-salinity levels ?

 

[Tom S.]

I agree on presence of HLLE and likely a dietary issue although water quality can be a contributor. Tank looks awefully clean.
Is this a newer setup ?
Is this a first fish ?
What foods are you using ?
What test kits are you using and what is your current ammonia-Ph-Nitrate-salinity levels ?

Ammonia - 0
Ph - 8.2
Nitrate - 50
Salinity - 1.026

Using red sea test kit
I put a square of dried seaweed and chroma boost pellets every other day. Opposite of that is frozen algea and mysis shrimp. I'm only feeding once a day. All the stomachs of the fish look full. Should I be feeding more?
This is not my first fish, I started the tank 6 weeks ago with the two clown fish, then the tang went in after ammonia dropped and nitrite was low.

 

[Tom S.]

Here's a couple more pictures

 

[Tom S.]

Here's a couple more pictures

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Looks like HLLE to me as well.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ammonia - 0
Ph - 8.2
Nitrate - 50
Salinity - 1.026

Using red sea test kit
I put a square of dried seaweed and chroma boost pellets every other day. Opposite of that is frozen algea and mysis shrimp. I'm only feeding once a day. All the stomachs of the fish look full. Should I be feeding more?
This is not my first fish, I started the tank 6 weeks ago with the two clown fish, then the tang went in after ammonia dropped and nitrite was low.

Nitrate high ( can be under-filtration, age of tank, water source )
Drop salinity to 1.025 and step up diet. Some foods are :
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine

Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health

 

[Tom S.]

Nitrate high ( can be under-filtration, age of tank, water source )
Drop salinity to 1.025 and step up diet. Some foods are :
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine

Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health

Alright I'll give it a try. Thank you for the help!!

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Those pictures are a lot clearer: definitely HLLE. Here is an art6icle I wrote on the topic:

Head and Lateral Line Erosion (HLLE)

This article discusses studies performed regarding head and lateral line erosion in captive fishes. Specifically, carbon use and nutrition as they relate to this syndrome.

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Jay