Tang help! please

[erikharrison]

TELL ME ABOUT IT! look how many posts in two months I've made!!!!

[txstateunivreefer]

ditto my fiance cks my ratio of how many posts i make if it goes up too much she gets mad oh well its worth it

[jtxstate]

OK i checked the grounding probe, its good so any other ideas on how to help my Tangs?

[kkutac001]

I remembered reading about the voltage thing, but also about diet and HLLE. From http://www.wetwebmedia.com/hllefaqs.htm, I quote Steven Pro:
"More vegetable matter, Nori fed daily plus some sort of herbivore diet like Formula II from Ocean Nutrition. I am sure San Francisco Bay Brand has something familiar. I am just use to Ocean Nutrition foods. You may also want to soak some of their foods in Boyd's Vita-Chem and American Marine Selcon. Again, there maybe similar products."
Another possible contributor to this HLLE problem is feeding terrestrial vegetables like romaine lettuce -- at least, that is what I've read on WWM. You mentioned nori sheets, but perhaps there is a vitamin deficiency at work here. I'm highly interested in whether or not you can turn him around. I hope you can. ..Karl

[jtxstate]

that came to mind when the kole came down with it, so i soak all the frozen food over night in Zoa.. i think thats right...? huh also i heard about some other reasons for HLLE, carbon dust in the water...its get in their digestive system and can cause stress in turn leading to HLLE. Another one was just the stress factor alone, such as working in your tank...moving live rock, placing corals, just to much human interaction. This is strange though because ive seen tons of Tangs, i guess one example would be the one in the prop tank at Finaddict in SA. Im thinking its the same as mine just older because its more of a chocolate color, but that fish seems to love people. Not only that but my fish dont seem to bothered if im working in the tank. One thing though...im thinking the kole tang might have got it from the carbon, but even thats a little hard to believe. I always wash any carbon i use, and im not even using any now. ahhhh i dont get it. This sucks for sure! I guess the only thing i can do now is try a different food. Oh and im also feeding with Ocean N. F II as well.....blah If i cant cure this... NO MORE TANGS. any more ideas would be great! thanks again guys