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Hole in the Head After 3 months.

I think it was April 10th or 11th that the first picture is time stamped. It was shortly after I picked up a 'rescue' blue face angel from Kevin Lake/Aquaria Guru at a great price. It isn't a great picture, but I think you can easily make out the scar in his head right above/behind his yellow eyes. You can also see a pretty good scar on his body near his 'false eye' dot, below his dorsal fin.

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I took this image tonight, roughly 3 months to the day after I put the fish in the tank. Crazy what a little space and some good feeding can do for a fish. The face/head scar is virtually gone to my eye. His body scars are taking longer to clear up, if they ever will.

Thanks again, Aquaria Guru.

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Nice! I'm going to come have out over at your house for a few months, maybe you can fix my face too!
 
When I first received it, its entire face looked awful and was always hiding... and now it looks a LOT, LOT, LOT nicer!! I'm glad it went to such a great home. What an amazing turnaround - great job James!
 
I have a goldflake angel with some of that along the lateral line. What do you feed?
 
H2OHOH said:
I have a goldflake angel with some of that along the lateral line. What do you feed?
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I don't think there is any secret in my food, I just toss in more than almost everybody...except Marty. Of course, that is why his face looks like it does.

Multiple times per day: PE Mysis, Hikari Mysis Live Black worms, Pellets.

I also have algae in a clip as near to 'all the time' as I can. Between the two tanks, I probably go through ?4? of the 8"X8" sheets you can buy in bulk. 2 Greens, 2 Purples.

I try to remember at least once a week to toss an angel formula cube into that tank as well.


I was really surprised when I took a close look the other day. I was going to try to 'document' the progress on his face scars. I did not expect them to be virtually gone.
 
H2OHOH said:
Do you think feeding/ nutrition is the main cause and solution?
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HLLE is generally thought to be caused by dietary, stress or water quality. It's really now known however there are some good guidelines to prevent and cure it as show by James. Good diet, good water stress free environment goes a long ways. there are rumors and such about stray electricity or GAC causing HLLE, mostly unfounded.

Lots of veggies for angles plus everything under the sun.
 
Angels seem to be the fish that have had it for me. I see tangs with it, but I have had good luck with them.
 
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS

I quit acros!

I had to move my gonis around because they were growing into my acros. I didn't like where my LPS was and I was having trouble keeping my phosphates where I want them and I am not about to give up my fish. I would have acros STN here and there too (assuming from the phosphate fighting), I was just getting tired of dealing with it. So....

I gave them all away to a friend last night. I need to go buy some glue to rearrange things, but they are mostly gone. I have a few left I am bringing to another friend Wednesday. It is so liberating.


Going to allow montis back into the 300, focus on my LPS and try to accentuate my growing zoa garden more. I will also try to mix in a few more leathers if I find interesting ones. Probably some birdsnest and digitata too.

I will revisit the situation in February after the holidays etc are through, but it will take a lot to get me motivated to do that again. Kids are getting older, we are buying go karts....
 
I have one or two acros that I really want to keep but I have the same feeling, I don't need acros to have a nice tank. It has been liberating so I support your decision.
 
I totally feel ya James. The "true" acros have always been difficult for me to sustain long term. The Oregon I got from you has been the only smooth acro that has lastest longer than a year without showing recession. Once I start to loose parts of the base there doesn't seem to be a way to recover.

Go Karts are awesome. My dad got me one and I spent multiple summers tearing up the back acres of our property with that thing.
 
Took GFO and BIOPellets offline last night. Going to try just skimmer and scrubber and see where that gets me. There are enough algae eaters in the tank, it may be just fine. Particularly now that I have no acros, things aren't as serious. We will have to see how things look at christmas. Right now, the display tanks are devoid of algae except for right under a tube anemone where the fish won't stick their nose in to eat it.


The new phone takes better pics, gets colors more correct on its own...This is under just reef brites.
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