R.I.P - lemon drop..

[kase]

hi all,
i got home from work yesterday, to find my dead yellow tang.
i am lost , the tank look so slow with out him. but i have a question he look find no fin rip or nothing. i feed them that nigth and he was find. no ick, no nothing. but i found him on the ground with alot of slim and a big belly. do you guys think i over feeded him. i also spot feed my corals that night(only attinic) with pawns. and i saw him picking at it after he had dinner.confused:

well his tank mate is 2 green chromis and 2 clowns( mark's that i pick up tuesday).

R.I.P

 

[Kent E]

He looks healthy from the pic. Can't tell if the belly is pinched. Dod you feed seaweed? Was there an ammonia spike?

 

[bigjdotcom01]

I am not sure if it is a real healthy environment to have a tang in a 29g tank. It may have been a stress related death.

 

[kase]

i feed him one day meat(seafood) and the next day prime reef mix flake 2 and i hang seaweed.

he was about 2.5" long and tall. his belly was unsally big(fatter) then nom. the last time i saw him(night before) he was eatting do his thing.
i had him since he was .5" maybe in that tank and know a year later he gone. no it was not do to stress.this thing eat out of your fingue tip. going to check the water today. but i shouldn't have any ammonia , i do 5g water changes weekly.

 

[kase]

kent,
that the frogspawn i got from you. it has about five head now and two is doing that bubble thing again. i feed that thing every other day.

 

[zanclus]

I had My yellow ( who was on the larger size 5+" not including her fins) die 2 days before transferring my livestock into my 220. She was healthy eating the day before. She was also in a 40g breeder along with several other fish including a powder brown tank.I am figuring her death was due to stress.,but unfortunately I had no choice but to cram all of them into the 40.

 

[ktar]

he had a heartattack from the fatty food you feed him everyday. hehehe.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

The Yellow Tang that died was in a 29 gallon reef with 250w halide lighting? What temperature was the aquarium water? What kind of water movement do you have in there?

 

[Arik]

Just because a fish is eating doesn't mean it isn't stressed. The length of a fish is no measure for how big of a tank it requires.

You'll never know why your fish died unfortunately, but I'd bet 10 to 1 if you put another tang in there it will die prematurely as well.

 

[kase]

the temp is at 78-80 with the lights on. as for flow a mj1200 and the out put of the sump.