Hlle......cured

troy989

troy989

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that reminds me at the my close lfs there is a tank that looks about 75 galons with blue hipo tang, sailfin tang yellow tang, green wolf eel and 2 tomato clowns both the blue hipo tang and the sailfin tang have hlle from being in such a small tank... the yelow tang is shreaded up and this is a display tank not a for sale tank
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by Beth
http:///forum/post/3143368
Yes, it can be cured.

Tell us your strategy.
WELL...#1 I read your thread...over and over

I purchased a grounding probe,
added many vitamins, like Selcon, vita-chem, zoe, zoecon, garlic extreme..I rotate their use (still do)
made sure I was feeding good foods
removed all carbon from tank
Did (and do) regular water changes
OHHHH...Did I mention that I read you thread
 
cranberry

cranberry

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You didn't write anything down, did you? You did an excellent job to fix a common problem. Notes would have been helpful.
Does anyone else log? I keep 5 subject school notebooks and write down all sorts of things. I'm a logger.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3143373
You didn't write anything down, did you? You did an excellent job to fix a common problem. Notes would have been helpful.
Does anyone else log? I keep 5 subject school notebooks and write down all sorts of things. I'm a logger.
LOL...NO...I guess I didn't...I know there is a thread or 2 in here somewhere while I had this issue that I posted
 
tannersmith200

tannersmith200

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Hello
I have the same problem with my Juv Queen Angel
He has HLLE but it is getting better. I had to quarantine him for about 1.5 months bec of ich before he recovered. He was placed in a 10g QT. During the QT period, he got HLLE. Now he is in a 2 month old tank and it doing awesome. His colors are becoming very bright and back to normal. He is very active and is a voracious eater. He still has HLLE but it is slowly getting better. He eats nori, red and green seaweed and mysis. The seaweed has garlic in it which I believe helps.
Good to see your tang look that good after having HLLE. I have never had a fish get it but now I am not too worried considering your results and my fish's progress. :)
 
florida joe

florida joe

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Quote:
I purchased a grounding probe,
If stray voltage was the cause and he is now cured (and obviously he is, beautiful fish)time to find the cause of the voltage and take the grounding probe out
 
2quills

2quills

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A grounding probe provides a path for current to travel. If current is allowed to travel to ground you would be electrocuting your livestock if there was infact stray voltage in the tank. This shouldn't be a problem if all of your equipment is on GFCI's. But up until recently, Meowzer didn't have GFCI's. Therefor I would have to rule out that stray voltage was the cause of the problem. Because if there had been then she would have certainly been doing more harm than good having a grounding probe in the tank. If voltage had no path to ground it would not electrocute anything. I demonstrated to a co-worker of mine not long ago (don't try this at home) how I could hold a live wire charged with 120v in with my fingers and not get shocked. He was amazed and wondering why untill he realized that I was not grounded. Again, do not try this at home kids.
 
florida joe

florida joe

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Ok I guess I have to defend my position.
First we need to understand voltage and current. Voltage is not what we need to fear, current is. So we have voltage introduced into our tanks through our electrical equipment. This voltage is just kind of lying around doing no harm. Like a bird sitting on a high tension wire lots and lots of voltage yet he is just hanging out not getting roasted. Now our good meowzer adds a probe into her tank. The voltage now has a path to take from its sours into our tanks through our fish to the grounding probe . While this voltage may not be enough to kill the fish, although if you had a pump shorting out I think it would the low voltage current passing through the fish must be one pain in the ass to the fish. Enough to be a constant stress
 
2quills

2quills

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Well I don't plan on ever running a ground probe. GFCI's, YES! A grounding probe in conjunction with gfci's is more for your personal safety than it is for your fish. Granted, electrical current can be found in minute amounts pretty much anywhere and everywhere, even in the ocean. I don't see any sense on adding any more stress than living in a glass cage already puts them under. I'll take my chances with just using gfci's and accept that I may get a quick shock for a fraction of a second as apposed to losing all of my livestock. That's my personal choice and opinion on the matter (not that it's worth much to anyone but me lol).
 
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