Yellow Tang Swims Upside Down

[Smokie 1118]

Hi All,

After I fed My Tang Tonight it started to do flips and tried to swim upside down. Each time it did this it would try to hit it's tail rapidly on the side of the glass. The tang looks very healthy, no problems with its fins, color or sign of disease. Anyone know why a tang would do this?

I feed my fish
-A small helping of Spectrum Thera +A soaked in Garlic in the Morning
-A 1"x1" piece of Julian Sprung's Sea Veggies (Green Seaweed) during the day
-A small helping of Frozen Mysis soaked in Garlic in the evening

I have a 65Gal
With = 70 lbs of Live Rock
dKH = 9.6 (Meg 3.43)
Cal = 350
No3 = 1
Po4 = 0
Salt = 1.025
Remora Pro Skimmer
3 Maxi-Jet 1200's

 

[j_chu]

my friend had the same problem with his sohal tang, he has a 300gal FOWLR and all his fishes were doing great but this particular tang started doing sudden flips. its respiration increased rapidly and stopped feeding. sad to say it did not make it. onset of the flipping and upside down swimming til time of death approx 4days! just curious what could have caused this or is this a kind of disease/sickness. TIA!

 

[yoboyjdizz]

Thats strange. I was thinking it was just extra happy because you fed it. The tail whippin the glass could be trying to go after its own reflection. Whats the fishes size?

 

[christa]

Is this a new fish?