NIMAS(Northern Indiana Marine Aquarium Society)
 |
Registered Members don't see these ads. Register now it's free!
02-14-2007, 03:43 PM
|
#1
|
|
Tech Support
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Posts: 580
|
Sick Hawaiian Tang
My Hawaiian Tang is acting strange. My Hippo died 2 weeks ago or so. No warning, no Ich, just, "Where's Dori?" We found her skeleton. Now when I got home my Yellow was against the bottom skimmer screen. I pushed him off and he seems a little tipsy, but he's swimming. My shrimp are picking on him, and his fins are a little torn up, but he's still swimming.
Any Ideas? Salinity is 1.021, temp was at 78, i just turned the heaters back to 73-74, other paramaters not checked, but everything else is acting ok.
|
|
|
|
Registered Members don't see these ads. Register now it's free!
|
__________________
125G AGA, dual overflows, 190 lbs live rock, 120 lbs crushed coral, ETSS 800 skimmer, 6' Pro Clear Aquatics w/3 150W 10k XM HQI MH, 72w actinic, 100G stock tank sump. Crocea Clam, 2 Clarkii Clowns, Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, 5 Pajama Cardinals, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 blood shrimp.
|
|
|
|
02-14-2007, 05:09 PM
|
#2
|
|
Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ft Wayne
Posts: 168
|
Check your ammonia. Did he like to eat greenery....ie spinach or seaweed etc...tangs need vegetalble matter as they are susceptible to head/line erosion and ich. Could it be velvet?
__________________
75 gallon reef and 20 gallon reef
Living the salty side of life......and lovin it!
You can call me Lorna
|
|
|
|
|
02-14-2007, 05:17 PM
|
#3
|
|
Ski Bum
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 941
|
I'm guessing if the shrimp are interested in him, he's pretty much a goner.
|
|
|
|
|
02-14-2007, 05:41 PM
|
#4
|
|
The Engineer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
Posts: 1,062
|
Do anything new or add anything recently?
Checked you ammonia/nitirite levels? I'm sure the dead fish caused a spike and am wondering if that has come down yet.
|
|
|
|
|
02-14-2007, 05:53 PM
|
#5
|
|
Tech Support
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Posts: 580
|
He ate romaine lettuce about once a week. I haven't done anything at all recently, and my protein skimmer works so well it just about takes salt out of the water lol.. not really, but it works good. I don't think much of when dori died, because she was skeleton within a day, and i dont think it had enough time to become ammonia.
__________________
125G AGA, dual overflows, 190 lbs live rock, 120 lbs crushed coral, ETSS 800 skimmer, 6' Pro Clear Aquatics w/3 150W 10k XM HQI MH, 72w actinic, 100G stock tank sump. Crocea Clam, 2 Clarkii Clowns, Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, 5 Pajama Cardinals, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 blood shrimp.
|
|
|
|
|
02-15-2007, 03:26 AM
|
#6
|
|
Tech Support
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Posts: 580
|
Just an update, Bubbles died overnight. He was against the skimmer input on the bottom of the tank, and this morning he's lying on the substrate in the same spot.
__________________
125G AGA, dual overflows, 190 lbs live rock, 120 lbs crushed coral, ETSS 800 skimmer, 6' Pro Clear Aquatics w/3 150W 10k XM HQI MH, 72w actinic, 100G stock tank sump. Crocea Clam, 2 Clarkii Clowns, Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, 5 Pajama Cardinals, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 blood shrimp.
|
|
|
|
|
02-15-2007, 01:55 PM
|
#7
|
|
Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: valparaiso
Posts: 11
|
autopsy
|
|
|
|
|
02-15-2007, 05:07 PM
|
#8
|
|
Tech Support
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Posts: 580
|
Water Test: Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0.05 (might as well be 0) Nitrate 2.5
Autopsy inconclusive. Appears to be broken heart from Dori dying.
__________________
125G AGA, dual overflows, 190 lbs live rock, 120 lbs crushed coral, ETSS 800 skimmer, 6' Pro Clear Aquatics w/3 150W 10k XM HQI MH, 72w actinic, 100G stock tank sump. Crocea Clam, 2 Clarkii Clowns, Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, 5 Pajama Cardinals, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 blood shrimp.
|
|
|
|
|
02-15-2007, 06:22 PM
|
#9
|
|
Little Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ft Wayne
Posts: 168
|
Well I hope this is the end of your casualties.....I would watch carefully for any signs of anything amiss with any other animals in your tank......
__________________
75 gallon reef and 20 gallon reef
Living the salty side of life......and lovin it!
You can call me Lorna
|
|
|
|
|
02-15-2007, 06:23 PM
|
#10
|
|
The Engineer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Elkhart, IN
Posts: 1,062
|
that stinks.. sorry for your loss.
|
|
|
|
|
