Tang death

[Salinity01]

Came home today and found my very aggressive yellow tang dead. When i mean aggressive he always swam into the glass like he was attacking his reflection and killed a copperband, and a tomini tang a few months ago. I noticed about a week ago he was swimming sideways against the gravel but i never saw any signs of ich. He ate well and looked normal. He just died. Tank mates are a blue hippo that has been with him since day 1 a couple years ago. 2 bangi cardinals, 2 fire fish, a tail spot blenny, 2 black ice clowns, and a cleaner goby. All other fish look normal, act normal, and feed normal. I have no idea why i lost the yellow tang but i dont want to loose any more fish.

Water change regularly, temp always has been kept 80-81, salinity 1.026.

Any thoughts?

 

[snorvich]

Came home today and found my very aggressive yellow tang dead. When i mean aggressive he always swam into the glass like he was attacking his reflection and killed a copperband, and a tomini tang a few months ago. I noticed about a week ago he was swimming sideways against the gravel but i never saw any signs of ich. He ate well and looked normal. He just died. Tank mates are a blue hippo that has been with him since day 1 a couple years ago. 2 bangi cardinals, 2 fire fish, a tail spot blenny, 2 black ice clowns, and a cleaner goby. All other fish look normal, act normal, and feed normal. I have no idea why i lost the yellow tang but i dont want to loose any more fish.

Water change regularly, temp always has been kept 80-81, salinity 1.026.

Any thoughts?

Without additional information . . . it may be that your hepatus tang decided to be king of the tank and felt crowded in a 140 gallon tank with another tang and eliminated the "crowding condition". But, without a lot of information about behavior and/or appearance, that is only a guess.