Yellow Tang
Hi everyone,
Hope you had a great break during the Easter public holidays.
I recently wrote in a thread that I lost my Yellow Tang, which I had had for over four years. That it, 16 years short of what I had hoped to have it for. It reached 11cm long and stayed at that length, was great with all its tankmates and was very healthy and damn colourful.
Anyway, the weekend before last I bought a 6.6cm Yellow Tang and brought it home and placed it in a quarantine tank with an Orange Striped Cardinal, some live rock and a few small corals, a powerhead, heater and light. The tank had been set up for a few weeks and had algae growing in there for it to eat. It ate straight away - frozen brine shrimp, NLS tiny pellets and dried seaweed. It looked fine and I was almost ready to add it to my display tank.
So, Sunday night I get home, the aquarium light has gone out as usual and the Yellow Tank is in the corner of the tank, in a low current spot. It looked fine, asleep. It had it's night colouration. So, I left it and stayed up for a couple hours. During that time I checked on it and thought, damn that fish is a deep sleeper. It was upright and well balanced.
Next morning it is still in the same position! So I poked it and it was stoned dead! But, it still looked almost perfect (dorsal fin had lost some colour at edges). There were no marks whatsoever on the Yellow Tang.
Now, I think the water conditions were very good cause I had only recently changed the water. The corals looked fine. The cardinal is fine, though they are bullet proof.
The Yellow Tang was quite fat. Did it over eat??? Can they die eating dried seaweed?
I then started to think, with the ban on collecting new Yellow Tangs and the fact that my Tang was only 6.6cm, does this indicate they might be collecting the Yellow Tangs from outside Hawaii and possibly be using cyanide?
What are the signs of cyanide poisoning?
I am not going to name the shop I bought it from, but I did ask whether they sourced their fish from the same supplier as they did some four years ago when I bought my original Yellow Tang and the person sought of hesitated before they said yes.
I am worried about the stock of Yellow Tangs out there at the moment, especially the smaller ones. So I am hesitant to try another.
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
Hope you had a great break during the Easter public holidays.
I recently wrote in a thread that I lost my Yellow Tang, which I had had for over four years. That it, 16 years short of what I had hoped to have it for. It reached 11cm long and stayed at that length, was great with all its tankmates and was very healthy and damn colourful.
Anyway, the weekend before last I bought a 6.6cm Yellow Tang and brought it home and placed it in a quarantine tank with an Orange Striped Cardinal, some live rock and a few small corals, a powerhead, heater and light. The tank had been set up for a few weeks and had algae growing in there for it to eat. It ate straight away - frozen brine shrimp, NLS tiny pellets and dried seaweed. It looked fine and I was almost ready to add it to my display tank.
So, Sunday night I get home, the aquarium light has gone out as usual and the Yellow Tank is in the corner of the tank, in a low current spot. It looked fine, asleep. It had it's night colouration. So, I left it and stayed up for a couple hours. During that time I checked on it and thought, damn that fish is a deep sleeper. It was upright and well balanced.
Next morning it is still in the same position! So I poked it and it was stoned dead! But, it still looked almost perfect (dorsal fin had lost some colour at edges). There were no marks whatsoever on the Yellow Tang.
Now, I think the water conditions were very good cause I had only recently changed the water. The corals looked fine. The cardinal is fine, though they are bullet proof.
The Yellow Tang was quite fat. Did it over eat??? Can they die eating dried seaweed?
I then started to think, with the ban on collecting new Yellow Tangs and the fact that my Tang was only 6.6cm, does this indicate they might be collecting the Yellow Tangs from outside Hawaii and possibly be using cyanide?
What are the signs of cyanide poisoning?
I am not going to name the shop I bought it from, but I did ask whether they sourced their fish from the same supplier as they did some four years ago when I bought my original Yellow Tang and the person sought of hesitated before they said yes.
I am worried about the stock of Yellow Tangs out there at the moment, especially the smaller ones. So I am hesitant to try another.
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
