Blue tang and HLLE

[bif24701]

My blue tang has HLLE and her fins are frayed. What can I do to help?

 

[b0bab0ey]

- Feed nutritious foods soaked in a vitamin supplement such as selcon. Soaking in garlic doesn't hurt but don't rely solely upon it.

- Keep your water quality impeccable (so probably lots of WCs)

- Check for stray voltage and always use a grounding probe (this may just be b/s when it comes to HLLE but it's a good idea to do anyway)

- Stop running carbon if you have been doing so (actually, there's more scientific evidence to backup this theory than the stray voltage thing)

 

[bif24701]

No carbon, checked stray voltage, none. Feed frozen soaked in Selcon, all from the advice I got from my LFS. Thank you for the help. I've been trying to get her to recover for the last 6 months. Kinda disappointed, too bad really. All my other fish are fantastic.

 

[b0bab0ey]

No carbon, checked stray voltage, none. Feed frozen soaked in Selcon, all from the advice I got from my LFS. Thank you for the help. I've been trying to get her to recover for the last 6 months. Kinda disappointed, too bad really. All my other fish are fantastic.

Sometimes it just takes a really long time for them to recover. Unfortunately, sometimes they never recover, and just look worse and worse.