My tang has lateral line disease !

[Chrisgarrick]

Just about to put my fairy wrass into dt. My dori (kids named her) has always had blotchy face but her tail is ragged and has bumps on it. Looked up lateral line pics and she's a match. She is eating like a pig and is active but the bumps I just noticed them. I changed out some old peer heads one def had voltage leak and I never ran/run carbon
Tank is a 150. Water is perfect corals growing other fish fat and healthy. Any suggestions are welcome. I really like this fish. She's big and fat and beautiful !

 

[Jcurry@wesketch]

What are you feeding it?

 

[Chrisgarrick]

Frozen depends on day but alge, mysis,brine,squid. Dry food in am. The stuff that the group tried to buy but the guy stopped making it (I got a pound of it). It varies.. Never same stuff
I have orbic cardinals Scissor tales, yellow and sailfin tang, royal gramma,

 

[Chrisgarrick]

Oh and 3 clowns

 

[TanksNStuff]

Hmm, my blue tang also has the same symptoms. I thought for the longest time (almost a year now) that the "flaky" skin was just due to it darting in and out of rocks. After reading up on this, I think my tang has MHLLE too.

It started out with blotchy areas around the nose/face and slowly progressed throughout the whole body. I'm thinking it is beyond being caused by rock scrapes.

I do run carbon/gfo (have since the tank went up in 2009). None of my other fish show any similar signs either. I feed all my fish live blackworms almost daily and the tang gets a 2"x4" piece of algae sheet w/added garlic. I occasionally substitute frozen foods (mixed seafood "reef" types of various kinds) for the blackworms just to mix it up.

Any suggestions on curing this? Seems like there are many possible cures but not sure I would want to try all of them at once.

 

[Chrisgarrick]

Yeah. Same exact thing with my fish. She is otherwise healthy. And I too don't want to go nuts with poss cures

 

[mnat]

Pick up some selcon and the elos food aminos. Soak your food and nori in those two things and feed them to your fish. It will heal over time. There have been some papers showing that carbon, when ground up, can irritate the skin and lead to HLLE in tangs.

 

[Chrisgarrick]

Thanks. Gonna order some now.

 

[Chrisgarrick]

Been soaking my food with the vitamins I won at the swap. Couple of times a week. Seems to be helping. Just FYI. Waiting for the selcon to arrive. Keep you posted

 

[mnat]

90% of the time hlle is a nutrition problem. The other ones seem to be stray voltage and carbon not being controlled properly.