Yellow Tang HELP

[reefjonny]

Hello - I'm new to Reef2Reef, this is my first post. In summary:

60 Gallon
Salinity - 1.023

STOCK
2 Maroon Clownfish
1 Yellow Tang
Large Clean Up Crew (turbo snails, hermits, etc)
Yellow Leather Coral
Green Star Polyp
Torch Coral
Green Mushroom Coral

Summmary
The Tang is only about 2 months in, all fish, corals etc have been there for a while. He is moving and very active but his skin looks like it's tearing or rubbing off on the rocks. I'm thinking black ich but have little to no experience with this.

Diet was full spectrum and brine shrimp, I've now added seaweed for the past 2 days. Again, he's active and eating but looks bad....any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Big G]

HLLE. Here's a great thread on identifying and treating HLLE. High quality foods + vitamins (I like Beta Glucan), pristine water quality, and low stress environment will go a long way towards your fish recovering from this condition. Red nori is a bit higher in vitamins than the green variety.

HLLE (Head & Lateral Line Erosion)

Head & Lateral Line Erosion "HLLE": Symptoms - HLLE literally looks as though the skin is rotting or peeling off the fish. Affected areas usually include the face and lateral line, and may be white in color. Treatment options - This is more of a condition than an actual disease. Since no one...

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[reefjonny]

HLLE. Here's a great thread on identifying and treating HLLE. High quality foods + vitamins (I like Beta Glucan), pristine water quality, and low stress environment will go a long way towards your fish recovering from this condition. Red nori is a bit higher in vitamins than the green variety.

HLLE (Head & Lateral Line Erosion)

Head & Lateral Line Erosion "HLLE": Symptoms - HLLE literally looks as though the skin is rotting or peeling off the fish. Affected areas usually include the face and lateral line, and may be white in color. Treatment options - This is more of a condition than an actual disease. Since no one...

www.reef2reef.com

Thank you, I have couple more questions:

- What would cause stress? (the 2 maroon clowns)
- Do I quarantine at all?

Thank you for the help!

 

[reefjonny]

I wanted to post a follow up. Big G, thank you for sharing the information above as well as your recommendation regarding nutrition. I began feeding that seaweed immediately following receipt of your post. The difference is dramatic, she still has a small bit of white coloration but is fully healed from my perspective...check it out:

 

[Fowler freak]

It wasn’t the stress from the clowns. Red nori, vitamin enriched pellets/frozen, and CLEAN water is key to slow or rid HLLE. I’ve seen it almost completely disappear in a few weeks with above recommendations.

 

[reefjonny]

It wasn’t the stress from the clowns. Red nori, vitamin enriched pellets/frozen, and CLEAN water is key to slow or rid HLLE. I’ve seen it almost completely disappear in a few weeks with above recommendations.

I'm feeding Life Spectrum / Green Seaweed all of which is soaked in Selcon. I don't have red nori yet, sounds as though I should feed that as well?

 

[Fowler freak]

I'm feeding Life Spectrum / Green Seaweed all of which is soaked in Selcon. I don't have red nori yet, sounds as though I should feed that as well?

Also Adding vitachem to your food like you do with selcon is a huge plus. I like and always feed with red or purple nori for it seems to be more beneficial imo.