Bingo1213 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 My yellow tang, who I have had for only about 2 weeks is showing signs of lateral line erosion. He had one spot on the side of his face when I got him, but I figured it was due to poor diet at the LFS. He was very thin when I purchased him, now he has put on a significant amount of weight! Now it seems to be progressing. I have ruled out water parameters, my tank is very stable. I have ruled out stray voltage, I tested the tank just now and it tested at 200 MILLIvolts. Which from my years of guitar amp repair I know is very low. I feed him green algae sheets every morning and brown algae sheets every night. He also eats the garlic soaked mysis, brine, clam, cyclopeze, and squid the rest of the tank gets everyday. He is a very good eater, in fact he takes algae out of my hand before I have a chance to get it on the clip. Please help me trouble shoot this. I really like this particular tang and will do what ever I can to make sure he thrives! My clown, cardinal, purple fire fish, melanarus wrasse, and corals are all doing very well, the tang is the only thing unhealthy in the system. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 I have added miracle mud as well to the sump and have been using vitachem. Is there anything else I should try? It still seems to be slowly progressing! Link to comment
k4ndyk1ng Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 My yellow tang got MHLLE, I found the cause to be stray voltage in the water. Also make sure you are feeding him plenty of nori Link to comment
Roshan8768 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Let me know if you figure it out... I have a tang in pretty much the same situation, just had it for longer. Not really improving much at all although it has gained some weight compared to how it was when I bought it Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Let me know if you figure it out... I have a tang in pretty much the same situation, just had it for longer. Not really improving much at all although it has gained some weight compared to how it was when I bought it Same exact thing mine is very fat and happy. Ill keep you guys posted! Ive read it can take up to 4 months for recovery but I am concerned that I haven't seem much improvement. Im pushing the vitachem hard now to see if that helps. And ya I am sure it's not stray voltage I just checked again. Plus in my display the only thing in there are vortechs which have no risk of stray voltage. Correct me if I am wrong but I have heard stray voltage can not travel from the sump to the display. If that is true then there is absolutely no chance for stray voltage to enter my water. Mine gets all he can eat nori, mostly green but I throw in red and brown a couple times a week too. He also of course eats garlic soaked mysis, brine, clam, squid, cyclopeze, krill, oyster, and roe with the other fish. Link to comment
Bingo1213 Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 I just thought I would post an update. The tang is showing significant improvement!! Still not 100 percent but defiantly much less of his lateral line showing. My routine is feeding nori soaked with garlic and vita-chem twice a day. Also the tang eats mysis and stuff with the other fish which is also soaked in vita-chem and garlic. I also added the miracle mud I don't know if it helped but its in there! Also still no stray voltages. I will post more if his condition changes! Link to comment
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