Can a Yellow Tang Kill?

[agrabow837]

I have a 90 gallon tank with a Yellow Tang, Scooter Blemy, 2 Percula Clowns, and a pretty good sized cleaner shrimp.
I recently bought a Heniochus and added it to the tank. His name was Rick. Note I stress WAS. He was doing very well for the first few weeks although my tang used to chase him around quite a bit.
Come home from work one day and the Heniochus was dead. Could the yellow tang kill him? I have not lost a fish to date in this tank, so i know the tank is healthy.
Thanks.

 

[pallan]

unless there were visable wounds i do not think the yellow physically killed him. most likely he died of what I call newly introduced syndrome (i know there is probably a better name) but alot of fish die within weeks of arriving into our setups due to capture methods and stress. He may have been captured using cyanide or some other poor way of catching fish for the trade. stress is brought on by capture, transport, being placed in new tanks and then the straw that broke the camels back, being harassed by the yellow. so yes the yellow may have had a hand in it but most likely it was going to happen anyway.
now can a yellow kill, yes
Mine beat the side of a coral beauty so often that a gaping wound appeard on his side and he eventually died of the wound.
IMO try to find a LFS that sells only tank raised/bred fish or fish that have been netted not drugged.

 

[oreo12]

I agree with pallan. Any fish could however kill another fish. I have 2 trigers a niger and a huma also I have a blue head wrass. The blue head wrass loves to chass the huma. and the huma chases back. it is fun to watch. However the blue head allmost bit the dust a few weeks back when durring one of these chases it got stuck in a small opening between some live rock. Thak fully my Kids saw it and told me so I was able to free him. so what i am geting at some fish will play and be fine.