My new 600 gallon reef

[jma1978]

Wow, do you have any idea what fish it was? Looks like a seahorse

 

[Dante_JoseCuerv]

As sad as that is, it's a good sign that your CUC is very efficient

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14492921#post14492921 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dante_JoseCuerv
As sad as that is, it's a good sign that your CUC is very efficient

I was taking a few pictures yesterday afternoon and this fish was in a couple of the shots. In less than 24 hours, this was all the remained. I found the skeleton 3 or 4 inches away from a large carpet anemone in the tank, but I can't believe that it could have picked the bones that clean. When I found the remains this afternoon, there wasn't anything around them, nobody picking on them.

 

[mpoletti]

Wow Chuck, Did I miss it, but what fish was this?

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14492917#post14492917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jma1978
Wow, do you have any idea what fish it was? Looks like a seahorse

Rotate the photo and it does in a way...

 

[Goodwin9]

It was the Whitebar Surgeon tang. While not the prettiest tang in the tank, it was different looking.

 

[jnarowe]

wow...I had something similar happen way back with a naso. It was ill already I think, and an anemone got it. I tried in vein to pull it away from the anemone but it and the maroon clown made a succesful bid to defend their prize. It was in a tough spot too, so I ended up leaving it be.

At the time you could still recognize what it was. The next day, just like yours. Picked completely clean. When I checked on it later that evening, cleaner shrimp were having a party all over it.

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14493242#post14493242 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
wow...I had something similar happen way back with a naso. It was ill already I think, and an anemone got it. I tried in vein to pull it away from the anemone but it and the maroon clown made a succesful bid to defend their prize. It was in a tough spot too, so I ended up leaving it be.

At the time you could still recognize what it was. The next day, just like yours. Picked completely clean. When I checked on it later that evening, cleaner shrimp were having a party all over it.

I really wonder if the carpet didn't get it. In the past, when I have lost fish, they tend to end up stuck to the overflow boxes. These bones were just inched from the carpet and the carpet is a good 8" or larger.

 

[jnarowe]

I would guess that it got sick and the carpet took advantage of it.

 

[Cougarman]

That's pretty crazy man. Too bad it was that whitebar. It's never the $20 yellow tang. The bones look like something out of a looney tunes cartoon I used to watch as a kid.

 

[Goodwin9]

One more try...I haven't had the best of luck adding an Acanthurus Fowleri so I had the LFS special order on more for me. This time, I put the fish in the empty side of the specimen tank in hopes that it will recover from shipping and not get bothered by any other fish until it is healthy & eating before I try and put it in the big tank. Fish arrived looking pretty good, probably 7" in length. I've got my fingers crossed that this one makes it this time........

 

[Bax]

I just saw a Fowleri live in person for the first time at an LFS last night. Now I see what the buzz is about. Very nice looking fish!

Sorry about your other tang, but I guess a nem has to eat too!

 

[Dante_JoseCuerv]

Nems can provide cruel fates sometimes.

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14497769#post14497769 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bax
I just saw a Fowleri live in person for the first time at an LFS last night. Now I see what the buzz is about. Very nice looking fish!

Sorry about your other tang, but I guess a nem has to eat too!

I'm curious how big it was and did you see a price on it? I need to know if I was getting a "good deal".

 

[Jar*Head]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14498617#post14498617 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Goodwin9
I'm curious how big it was and did you see a price on it? I need to know if I was getting a "good deal".

Chuck that bad boy could get up to 24" if i remember correctly . He is very pricey and hard to get fish..... It is around $300-$400 each...

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14497827#post14497827 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dante_JoseCuerv
Nems can provide cruel fates sometimes.

I have to think that there must have been something wrong with the tang before the carpet got it. It was too big of a fish for it to just swim into the anemone.

 

[Bax]

Chuck

The fowleri was a good 7" and about $399 if I remember correctly, it was stunning in person!

 

[Reeftanks6]

Very nice chuck!! And sorry to hear about the death! Thats is so werid to see that happen and especially be that clean!!

 

[Dante_JoseCuerv]

Goodwin9
-Yeah, it does sound like there was something wrong with it. Still, sad day man.

 

[Jhardain]

Sad loss, sucks to lose anything in the tank. Even if it cost nothing, I don't want to lose a single thing. Sad for the wallet too with a $400 loss as well.