michelle l
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Hello
My Cortez Angel has got what looks like HLLD, only it is all over his body. I noticed a while back, up till yesterday, that he had some more pale spots in his skin developing, but I thought he may have been starting his color change. (He's still in juvenile coloration stage) He moves so fast that it was tough to get a good look at his skin, but what I saw didn't look like disease to me. This morning I got up and looked at him, and the pale spots have all turned to sores that look like HLLD, but they are all over his body. It seems like it got very bad almost overnight. Any idea what it might be?? He also seems thinner than he used to be. He still eats voraciously. I've had him about two months and he's in with a flame angel, two percula clowns, and three green chromis. There is also an emerald crab, two cleaner shrimp, a hermit crab, and a brittle star.
It looks like the example photo of the fish in the sticky thread that is suffering from bad water conditions, but my water perameters seem fine. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0, PH 8.0, gravity 1.023. I don't have a test kit for any other elements in the water (phospate, etc), so those perameters are unknown.
I feed him angel formula, prime reef, seaweed selects (red), frozen brine with spirulina, and flake, and occasionally I will let him eat off of a chunk of fresh tilapia that I hold for him.
He's in a 125 gallon that is 4 months old, and has a wet/dry system with a built in protein skimmer that is rated for up to a 175 gallon (the skimmer isn't very good, I plan in investing in a better one). The return pump pumps 850 GPH. I also have an Emperor 400 for mechanical filtration, and two powerheads for circulation...on is an 850 GPH model and the other is a 350 GPH model, one in each upper corner of the tank.
I have a quarantine tank that I am going to move him to later today...is there anything that can be done for him? Are my other fish at risk?
My Cortez Angel has got what looks like HLLD, only it is all over his body. I noticed a while back, up till yesterday, that he had some more pale spots in his skin developing, but I thought he may have been starting his color change. (He's still in juvenile coloration stage) He moves so fast that it was tough to get a good look at his skin, but what I saw didn't look like disease to me. This morning I got up and looked at him, and the pale spots have all turned to sores that look like HLLD, but they are all over his body. It seems like it got very bad almost overnight. Any idea what it might be?? He also seems thinner than he used to be. He still eats voraciously. I've had him about two months and he's in with a flame angel, two percula clowns, and three green chromis. There is also an emerald crab, two cleaner shrimp, a hermit crab, and a brittle star.
It looks like the example photo of the fish in the sticky thread that is suffering from bad water conditions, but my water perameters seem fine. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0, PH 8.0, gravity 1.023. I don't have a test kit for any other elements in the water (phospate, etc), so those perameters are unknown.
I feed him angel formula, prime reef, seaweed selects (red), frozen brine with spirulina, and flake, and occasionally I will let him eat off of a chunk of fresh tilapia that I hold for him.
He's in a 125 gallon that is 4 months old, and has a wet/dry system with a built in protein skimmer that is rated for up to a 175 gallon (the skimmer isn't very good, I plan in investing in a better one). The return pump pumps 850 GPH. I also have an Emperor 400 for mechanical filtration, and two powerheads for circulation...on is an 850 GPH model and the other is a 350 GPH model, one in each upper corner of the tank.
I have a quarantine tank that I am going to move him to later today...is there anything that can be done for him? Are my other fish at risk?
