Weird Marks on Trigger

[sbash]

Greetings! I've had this trigger in an isolated system with a couple damsels I picked up on Feb 28 (isolate from other systems). I just noticed these weird white marks around his eyes and more as you can see in the picture:

It is still very active and eating quite well with a varied diet of dried mysis, flaked spirilina mysis/brine, and marine pellets. I usually feed twice a day.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Only around eyes or head? Could be HLLE. Just needs a good environment and proper diet. Should recover. Could also be damsels or injury. Watch for any other signs such as breathing heavy, appetite loss, red blotches or stripes, spots on fins or tail, etc.

 

[Humblefish]

^^ Agree; looks like the onset of HLLE: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hlle-head-lateral-line-erosion.259916/

 

[Big G]

+1 to this ^^^ consider moving off flake or dried to frozen foods and live foods if possible like black worms or white worms. So much better and more natural for the fish. Try making a fish smoothie out of frozen cubes: mysis, cyclops, seaweed, brine shrimp, etc. Get a variety of 7-8 different cubes. Take one of each and place into a tupperware container in your fridge. Let it "slump" add Selcon, Zoecon (which is formulated specifically for HLLE) add a few drops to the mix. Stores for a few days in the fridge. The fish will love it. And lastly white worms. The fish just go crazy for them. Very easy to cultivate; much easier than black worms.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/give-your-white-worms-a-bath.350754/#post-4365170
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/preparing-frozen-foods-for-my-fish-and-corals.300448/#post-3677350

 

[sbash]

Thanks everyone! Based on the HLLE thread it must be diet, I would have thought the assortment was good enough.

I'm quite far from a store that sells salt water foods, but I'll check the generic (PetCo) style store nearby.

What about grocery store food? raw shrimp, scallops, etc... I've heard of many people having successful tanks one such a diet...

 

[Big G]

Thanks everyone! Based on the HLLE thread it must be diet, I would have thought the assortment was good enough.

I'm quite far from a store that sells salt water foods, but I'll check the generic (PetCo) style store nearby.

What about grocery store food? raw shrimp, scallops, etc... I've heard of many people having successful tanks one such a diet...

Yep. Lots of people dice up clams, shrimp, etc. I'm in a very rural area and the only place around is Petco. They have a good variety of cubed frozen. It makes life easy to just ploop a few different cubes. Try it; you'll like it. And so will your fish!

 

[sbash]

Yep. Lots of people dice up clams, shrimp, etc. I'm in a very rural area and the only place around is Petco. They have a good variety of cubed frozen. It makes life easy to just ploop a few different cubes. Try it; you'll like it. And so will your fish!

Sounds good! Yeah, I'm a bit rural... I do have some frozen food left, but only a few cubes... I'll see what the pet store has; which is right near the grocery store I am going to this afternoon. So good timing on this

 

[DeniseAndy]

I use a bit of white fish, scallops, mussels, clams, shrimp from grocery store. Then nori from grocery store also. Give the frozen from pet store for the spirulina and other such items.

 

[jda]

That looks like he got scraped up while being caught or transported, or otherwise from a hiding spot. This does not look like HLLE to me. I agree that the diet is varied enough.

If your pellets are high quality, like NLS Pellets, then those alone should be enough to keep HLLE away. I feed a majority of NLS pellets and none of my fish have any issues and some are more than a decade old.

 

[sbash]

That looks like he got scraped up while being caught or transported, or otherwise from a hiding spot. This does not look like HLLE to me. I agree that the diet is varied enough.

If your pellets are high quality, like NLS Pellets, then those alone should be enough to keep HLLE away. I feed a majority of NLS pellets and none of my fish have any issues and some are more than a decade old.

Indeed, it could be an injury, he could have been spooked and went head first between the rocks or something...

Yeah, NLS Marine Pellets, Omega One Freeze Dried Mysis and Cobalt Aquatics Mysis Spirulina...

 

[jda]

I think that you are fine. See if it heals over the next few days.