racefan Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I lost my first fish last night(sad) I had a Baby Blue Hippo Tang(1" maybe) I've had him since 5/23,he's been doing fine,swimming fine,looking healthy,eating good.Then all of a sudden his color started to get a little lighter(just a little) & he was kind of lethargic & last night my wife & I went to buy a new car & when we came home he was a gonner!All parameters were fine,the only thing I've done was added a protein skimmer a couple weeks ago,but that shouldn't have any bearing on anything should it? We had gotten kind of attached to the little guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Sorry to hear. Nah the skimmer wouldn't have anything to do with it. Any signs of disease? Was it eating normally? Other fish ok? On the positive side, did you get a car? What'd ya get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanktop74 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I am in the same boat with you! Lost both my baby tangs this week, wonder if we got them at the same place.... anyway... one passed during the night Sunday night and the other was fine last night and I came home from work about an hour ago and its gone! Water tested fine. I have had mine about 3-4 weeks and we will miss them both! I feel your pain! Sorry you lost yours too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 What were you feeding them? The color fading is a sign that there may have been something missing from it's diet. I had this happen with a few of my fish (loss of color) until I started supplementing the food with vitamins. I.E. Every few days I feed them Mysis that has a few drops of vita chem soaked into it. I'm also more religeous about feeding them a larger variety of stuff. (At the time I was feeding them primarily pellets) After a week or so the color started returning and after a few weeks they all regained their vibrant coloring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCR Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Tang's need veggies!!!! You can freeze some broccoli. It breaks down the cell structure. Then put a slice on a veggie clip. Being you 2 both got them about the same time does make me question the batch from the wholesaler. Almost sounds like cyanide poisoning. JM2 cent's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racefan Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 impur-It was eating normally until Monday night then it was eating sporadically.Other fish & corals are fine.Car is a Hyundai Sonata limited with all the bells & whistles(for my wife & I get handed down her Durango) tanktop-PM sent. Rick- I was feeding a rotation of Mysis-Brine shrimp & rods food.It was eating like a pig for 2 months. ccr-Does sound suspicious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanktop74 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 What were you feeding them? The color fading is a sign that there may have been something missing from it's diet. I had this happen with a few of my fish (loss of color) until I started supplementing the food with vitamins. I.E. Every few days I feed them Mysis that has a few drops of vita chem soaked into it. I'm also more religeous about feeding them a larger variety of stuff. (At the time I was feeding them primarily pellets) After a week or so the color started returning and after a few weeks they all regained their vibrant coloring. I also had been feeding a variety, brine shrimp, spirulina and brine shrimp, rods herbivore and hanging seaweed for mine. My food was soaked with vita Chem before feeding. Mine were in QT tank so they were getting all the food that I fed, eating like champs till the thier death. Very strange. I was told that I may never know why they died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayTheSavageFraser Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I had a beautiful Beta Grouper(Comet) die and I took it in to Aqua Serene here in Eugene and Paul did an autopsy!! We found a gill disease. If you have a favorite LFS, see if they will do the same. Clay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny503 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 OMG... I have two of them disappear, I think they both are death too. I brought them home and aclimate them all night and I put them in my QT, all Sunday they were looking fine and I left it in the tank with 1 cleaner shrimp. Today I came home both of the fish disappear they both 1". :-( Found no death body or skeleton laying around. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayTheSavageFraser Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Do you have a purple lobster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny503 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 One more blue hippo tang die.... total 3 quarter size of hippo that I can't have. Every other fishes I bought yesterday do fine just the tang :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannedmulder Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I also have problems with tangs. I have in my tank right now and doing great a hippo and a kole but I have had in the past 2 convict tangs, 2 mimic yellow tangs, 1 ebili mimic tang. I also don't know what is going on. Everything tests out ok. But yet don't know what to do. I would like to have one more tang in my tank but don't know what to get. Of those 5 mentions the convicts lasted the longest. I loved them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny503 Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I think maybe because we bought too small tangs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newfisher Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I hear purple lobsters are prone to eat others? And, hard to catch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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