wrote:
I'm trying to maintain a good diet and supplement with vitamins. What would
you consider high nitrates? -Andy

"kim gross" wrote in message
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I'm having trouble with a Yellow Tang who is exhibiting signs of HLLE.
Any favorite treatments? TIA, Andy

My suggestion to you is to make sure you have very good water quality,
very low nitrates, and make sure you are feeding the tang a good diet with
lots of marine algea in it. Nobody knows the causes of HLLE, there are
many theories, including leaking current, stray voltages, poor water
quality and poor nutrition. Personlly I beleive it is caused by water
quality with high nitrate levels being a very bad thing, and poor
nutrition.

Kim



Me personally I would say anything over 10 can be bad for fish. Many
fish though will do OK with nitrates up to 50-75. I try to keep my
nitrates below 5 ppm.

Kim