My beautiful tangs from exotic aquaticx world

[acasp4]

Here is a pic of my Achilles and Chevron tang. Simply beautiful and I fell like I'm crazy lucky to have picked an Achilles that ate within an hour of being in the tank and even luckier to have it eat from my hand with in 2 days!!!!! Thanks Carl for the great fish!!!.

 

[acasp4]

If you viewed my other thread on the purple and yellow tangs I have decided to not add any more tangs into the tank. I will be adding other reef friendly fish wrasses ect. To the system but not for a while. I still plan on having a SPS Dominant tank even with all the fish, I'm confident in the size of my Skimmer, fuge, and my Bio pellets. Along with the 40 gallon water changes every 2-3 weeks..... I do have some bad news though that I'm honestly depressed about, yesterday afternoon I feed the fish and everyone was getting along and ate well no fish had any signs of illness or anything IV put in 15+ hours observing the tank and never did I see any aggression between the fish. Just my yellow belly damsel was a ***** at times to the 6 line. Well I fed the fish and left for school and came back an hour later and immediately once I got how sat in front of the tank ... one of the yellow bellys and the blue hippo lay lifeless on the sand bed (( I have no idea what happened all thank levels were perfect. My dad who remained in the room watching TV said he look over at a commercial break and took note of all fish and buy the next commercial the two fish were lifeless on the sand. What the hell happened???

 

[Benar]

Some of your rock, and all of your sand looks brand new. Maybe that's the reason? Did you rush..?

 

[acasp4]

I don't think so the tank is cycled and some of my fish have been in there for a while. A buddy said it could be a cyanide affect if the fish were collected with it.

 

[goofyreefer]

So 2 fish died within a short period of time correct? If so I would doubt it would have anything to do with cyanide.

 

[acasp4]

So 2 fish died within a short period of time correct? If so I would doubt it would have anything to do with cyanide.

Yes vary short amount of time. Do you think they ate to much to fast. They were very small hippo tangs alittle bigger than a quarter. I just can't figure out what happened

 

[finrod2]

I would say aggression from the achilles was the cause.

 

[acasp4]

I would say aggression from the achilles was the cause.

My Achilles seems very docile though? I haven't seen any aggression yet.

 

[goofyreefer]

Yes vary short amount of time. Do you think they ate to much to fast. They were very small hippo tangs alittle bigger than a quarter. I just can't figure out what happened

IMO if the tangs were that small they should only be put in a VERY well established tank. Not to mention they are pretty fragile at that size to begin with.

 

[dviper150]

^^^ +1. Blue hippos at the size you said (about a quarter) are very delicate. You need a well established tank with algae growing on the rocks for them to graze on since they might be too shy/scared to come out in the open and eat with the bigger fish.

 

[tiababygirl2]

Its a beautiful fish .hope it does well for you..sorry about the lost of the other tangs.

 

[ali1]

Might be an ammonia spike since you added two new fish and fed immediately.. check if fish are breathing heavy.