Yellow tang breathing fast?

[Sharkysnarky]

I might be paranoid, but I think my yellow tang is breathing fast.
my water parameters seem fine. Just checked phosphates and were around 0.08, nitrates maybe 10-15. The test pretty normal.

what do you guys think?

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[vetteguy53081]

I might be paranoid, but I think my yellow tang is breathing fast.
my water parameters seem fine. Just checked phosphates and were around 0.08, nitrates maybe 10-15. The test pretty normal.

what do you guys think?

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Very difficult video between magnifier and tang moving quickly but not crazy fast. Assure ammonia and nitrate Not elevated
Fish also has HLLE which is face/head/lateral line erosion. Again assure good water quality and also diet. Feed foods such as listed below- this is Not a flake and pellet fish but herbivore:
-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

 

[Sharkysnarky]

Very difficult video between magnifier and tang moving quickly but not crazy fast. Assure ammonia and nitrate Not elevated
Fish also has HLLE which is face/head/lateral line erosion. Again assure good water quality and also diet. Feed foods such as listed below- this is Not a flake and pellet fish but herbivore:
-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

First of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to respond.

I can look more into water quality and make sure everything is okay.

I wanted to ask you more about the diet and see if you can help me there.

Currently, this is what I am feeding them:
-I have nori attached throughout the day, and I replace it daily.
-TDO pellets in the morning (should I continue this?)
-Hikari Mysis in the evening (is feeding twice too much?)

I'll start adding selcon and garlic extract in the future. (Any brand recommendation for garlic?)

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

The tang is breathing a bit fast, but has a full belly so I don't think you are facing any serious disease. Does the tank have good aeration, not just circulation, but bubbles breaking the surface tension of the water? What is the water temperature? You should avoid using lignite carbon, or carbon in a reactor.

I presume this is one of the tank-raised tangs, it is showing epithelial thinning that most of them do. Here is an article I wrote about that when it first showed back in 2006:

Captive-Bred Yellow Tangs - showing HLLE? - CORAL Magazine

I've seen photographs of wild Black Tangs, taken with flash photography, where they show what looks like classic HLLE lesions, but which is simply due to the camera flash.

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Jay

 

[Rickybobby]

Check out selcons recipe on their website. I’ve been making there recipe for 2 years now and have the happiest healthy fish possible.

 

[vetteguy53081]

First of all, I would like to thank you for taking the time to respond.

I can look more into water quality and make sure everything is okay.

I wanted to ask you more about the diet and see if you can help me there.

Currently, this is what I am feeding them:
-I have nori attached throughout the day, and I replace it daily.
-TDO pellets in the morning (should I continue this?)
-Hikari Mysis in the evening (is feeding twice too much?)

I'll start adding selcon and garlic extract in the future. (Any brand recommendation for garlic?)

While good filler, diet missing fats and aminos

Add Foods such as LRS fish frenzy or herbivore diet, small plankton, spirulina brine shrimp and formula two flake and frozen

Brightwell has good garlic product.

 

[Sharkysnarky]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

The tang is breathing a bit fast, but has a full belly so I don't think you are facing any serious disease. Does the tank have good aeration, not just circulation, but bubbles breaking the surface tension of the water? What is the water temperature? You should avoid using lignite carbon, or carbon in a reactor.

I presume this is one of the tank-raised tangs, it is showing epithelial thinning that most of them do. Here is an article I wrote about that when it first showed back in 2006:

Captive-Bred Yellow Tangs - showing HLLE? - CORAL Magazine

I've seen photographs of wild Black Tangs, taken with flash photography, where they show what looks like classic HLLE lesions, but which is simply due to the camera flash.

www.reef2rainforest.com

Jay

Hello Jay, thanks for the warm welcome.

I have a skimmer running, the water temp is 78-79.5. I am currently running carbon in a reactor(brs rox 0.8)

It is a biota tang, thank you for linking the article. I’ll read it.

 

[ccole]

A couple questions: have you had him for long? Is he getting picked on at all?

Is it possible he’s seeing his reflection in the glass? My yellow tang will start darting around and breathing a bit heavier if he sees his own reflection.

 

[Sharkysnarky]

A couple questions: have you had him for long? Is he getting picked on at all?

Is it possible he’s seeing his reflection in the glass? My yellow tang will start darting around and breathing a bit heavier if he sees his own reflection.

I have had him for about a month.

I do not see him getting picked on in front of me, but I have seen its fin damaged a few days ago which was concerning( it is recovered now)

The reflection is a good possibility, what would be a solution, if it is reflection?

 

[ccole]

I have had him for about a month.

I do not see him getting picked on in front of me, but I have seen its fin damaged a few days ago which was concerning( it is recovered now)

The reflection is a good possibility, what would be a solution, if it is reflection?

I didn’t do anything with mine. He just got used to it after a week or two and stopped.

 

[Sharkysnarky]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

The tang is breathing a bit fast, but has a full belly so I don't think you are facing any serious disease. Does the tank have good aeration, not just circulation, but bubbles breaking the surface tension of the water? What is the water temperature? You should avoid using lignite carbon, or carbon in a reactor.

I presume this is one of the tank-raised tangs, it is showing epithelial thinning that most of them do. Here is an article I wrote about that when it first showed back in 2006:

Captive-Bred Yellow Tangs - showing HLLE? - CORAL Magazine

I've seen photographs of wild Black Tangs, taken with flash photography, where they show what looks like classic HLLE lesions, but which is simply due to the camera flash.

www.reef2rainforest.com

Jay

I wanted to touch up on carbon use. Should I completely stop using it for the time being, or is there a timeline I should follow pertinent to Tang's health?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I wanted to touch up on carbon use. Should I completely stop using it for the time being, or is there a timeline I should follow pertinent to Tang's health?

Well, as they say, "it's complicated". Once you.ve used carbon, just removing it doesn't always help, but moving the fish to a new tank often does. Take a look at the article that I wrote on this:

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.

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

 

[Sharkysnarky]

Well, as they say, "it's complicated". Once you.ve used carbon, just removing it doesn't always help, but moving the fish to a new tank often does. Take a look at the article that I wrote on this:

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.

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

Thanks for responding Jay, I will give that a read.