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Frenchie 03-11-2009 03:10 PM

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dsaundry 03-11-2009 03:19 PM

What is your salinity level??

Frenchie 03-11-2009 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dsaundry (Post 398134)
What is your salinity level??

Salinity is 1.026

Trigger Man 03-11-2009 03:59 PM

have you seen your blue tang picking at them. On the dead fish is there any signs of being attacked? I would recommend a waterchange anyway and put some carbon in just incase it is something in the water.

Frenchie 03-11-2009 04:07 PM

I did notice some of my yellow tangs fins were niped. And when I found my tang dead one of my sps frags had been broken, so I assumed a fight. But when I found the rabit fish dead I thought it might be something else.

I'm running carbon 24/7 and I'll be doing daily water changes.

Has anyone expierienced a killer blue tang? Or Does anyone have any other ideas?

Whatigot 03-11-2009 04:15 PM

how long were these fish in your tank for?

Leah 03-11-2009 04:27 PM

For what its worth my blue is the king, he is only 2 inches and he chases my fox and
anthia. The fox is 3 times his size and the anthia at least twice. He has a huge ego!
Think I would go for the water change and carbon to be safe.

Frenchie 03-11-2009 04:36 PM

The tang was in for only 2 months, the rabbit fish was in for 4 months. The blue tang is twice the size of them,hes around 5 inches long.

The crazy thing is that they both looked fine just hours before their deaths....

Whatigot 03-11-2009 05:09 PM

hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

subman 03-11-2009 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Whatigot (Post 398191)
hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

Call Angela Lansbury!


Wow I just dated myself:redface:

Frenchie 03-11-2009 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Whatigot (Post 398191)
hmmmm.
hate these murder mysteries...

I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

Rbacchiega 03-11-2009 07:11 PM

I've been going through the same thing Frenchie. Lost my CBB, Ember Blenny and one of my Cardinals a couple days (a week?) ago. Things have stopped dieing now, corals are still looking good. I just upped the water change to around 25% per week, changed out my carbon and tried to avoid doing anything else in the tank to avoid uneccessary stress.

Things are looking better now, havn't lost a fish *knock on wood* and have noticed some new growth in my SPS frags....

hope things straighten themselves out for you soon

Whatigot 03-11-2009 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Frenchie (Post 398255)
I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

pfffft....
reef clue...
I think there is a market there.:lol:

Rbacchiega 03-11-2009 07:36 PM

I vote that it was Mr Peacock (Mantis), in the cave with/using the...rope. (Yes, that's it, the mighty underwater lasso)

GreenSpottedPuffer 03-11-2009 07:42 PM

My Blue Tang (about 7-8") is by far king of my tank. He is not always a little brat but will chase fish around once in a while. He has stressed my Harlequin Tusk out pretty bad at times.

fishoholic 03-11-2009 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frenchie (Post 398255)
I think it was the blue tang in the study with the candle stick...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Whatigot (Post 398263)
pfffft....
reef clue...
I think there is a market there.:lol:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rbacchiega (Post 398268)
I vote that it was Mr Peacock (Mantis), in the cave with/using the...rope. (Yes, that's it, the mighty underwater lasso)

:lol: reef clue, I love it!

naesco 03-11-2009 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Frenchie (Post 398131)
Monday my yellow tang died. Yesterday my fox face went.

Its strange because they show no signs of illness, hours before their deaths they were eating and acting normal. And all the coral looks great.

I have been trying to raise my kh with the brs 2 part mix, but I only added 50 ml?

Could my blue tang be killing them? Hes alot bigger then they were.

Parameters are as follows

Ph- 8.2
No3- 0
No2- 0
No1- 0
Phosphates - 0
Ca- 420
Kh- 7.5
Mg- 1200

I'm stumped... and crushed!

I am sorry to hear of the fish loss
What kind of `blue`tang do you have and when did you add him

Frenchie 03-12-2009 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by naesco (Post 398314)
I am sorry to hear of the fish loss
What kind of `blue`tang do you have and when did you add him

Hes a regal tang. I added him about two months ago..

naesco 03-12-2009 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frenchie (Post 398131)
Monday my yellow tang died. Yesterday my fox face went.

Its strange because they show no signs of illness, hours before their deaths they were eating and acting normal. And all the coral looks great.

I have been trying to raise my kh with the brs 2 part mix, but I only added 50 ml?

Could my blue tang be killing them? Hes alot bigger then they were.

Parameters are as follows

Ph- 8.2
No3- 0
No2- 0
No1- 0
Phosphates - 0
Ca- 420
Kh- 7.5
Mg- 1200

I'm stumped... and crushed!

I would not be the regal tang responsible for the death.
Either the most recently added fish carried a pathogen (he would be sick too) or a change ocurred in your water ,temperature or there was oxygen starvation for some reason.


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