<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15279551#post15279551 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by luvmylo
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.