Show off your Tangs/Surgeonfish!!
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Western_reefer
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Do your Purple and Yellow Tangs fight?<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15264983#post15264983 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by "Umm, fish?"
Thanks! A couple from tonight:
"Umm fish?"
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Not really. Just some ritualized dominance games at this point. The dussumieri and the dominant purple fight more, but even that's pretty half-hearted at this point. The purple gave the duss a huge open cut a few months ago, but the duss has grown at least 50% larger since then so it's pretty much died off.
Western_reefer
Reef keeper
Nice!!
Reeftanks6
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Loving the new pictures
Western_reefer
Reef keeper
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15274248#post15274248 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by luvmylo
Here's my fav. of all. (tenetti tang)
My Purple tang (had the worste case of HLLE I have ever seen when I got him)
Just wondering, what did you do to the tang so that the HLLE went away?
Western_reefer
Reef keeper
Very nice Scopas!! Almost looks like a Black Tang.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15275983#post15275983 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rozzzna
and some pics of my old scopas, definately getting one again when my tank grows a bit
rgentry123
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i have a yellow with hlle as well, am i currently doing my best to reverse it but so far it seems as though i have only halted it, its not getting any worse but it's certainly not any better either
rgentry123
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i feed a mix of differant foods, mysis, brine nori flake, and pellet food. i have started soaking some foods in garlic but really i only did that to get my new wrasse to start eating and hadnt though about conituing it.
SlowCobra
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Brine is very poor in nutritional value. I have had excellent luck with Rods food soaked in selcon and garlic. I feed my tank at least 4 times a day not including 1/2 sheet of Nori. At the end of the day I always feed with the noted Rods food combo.
When I acquired a hippo tang with HLLE I fed that combo and other than a little scarring it all cleared up.
When I acquired a hippo tang with HLLE I fed that combo and other than a little scarring it all cleared up.
Western_reefer
Reef keeper
Or instead of buying Rods food, you can always make your own. 
SlowCobra
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15278810#post15278810 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Western_reefer
Or instead of buying Rods food, you can always make your own.
By the time you buy all the ingredients thats included in rods food not only have you spent a ton of money but you need to find a place to store a year or 2 worth of food!
$20 worth of Rods last 6-8 weeks for me. And I am a heavy feeder.
Ok the idiot I got the fish from kept coming into the store describing this disease the fish had and we kept telling him it was HLLE. He never bought medication for it or never really asked us how to treat it. He would just leave and that was that. So he decided after fighting with this for some time he would just break his tank down so he came in the store where I worked and asked if we would take his fish. We said certainly. So he brings this purple tang into the store with pits in him the size of pencil erasers or bigger all over his body. I told the bossman that I wanted that fish immediatly. Come to find out, the guy had been trying to treat HLLE with copper treatment and had been dosing his entire fowlr with copper. I took the fish home and FED FED FED. For a couple of months, I made sure that as long as the lights were on in the tank, There was nori on a clip and I also fed the tank vege rods 2 times per day for a couple of months. This did nothing great for my phosphate levels but the fish was loving life for the first time. AS soon as I saw the disease starting to clear up a bit, I backed off on the overfeeding and now he is absoulutely stunning. It took about 6 months for him to completely come around.
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