Fireworks & Fish (Help)

[jeffkoz]

Over the past two days I have lost yellow tang, blue tang, and a manderian gobbie from my 55gal. Water tests are OK and have had them for a month to three months. There was a large fireworks display a few blocks from my house on the 4th. My wife said she say the blue tang "jump in the tank". Has anyone had a simmilar problem? Any sudgestions for future shows?
thanks :help:

 

[grindzgreg]

you should put ear muffs on the fish, the actually sell these on ----. And maybe add a small cage in your tank for the fish.
Stay cute:jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping: :jumping:

 

[msd2]

Originally posted by jeffkoz
Over the past two days I have lost yellow tang, blue tang, and a manderian gobbie from my 55gal. Water tests are OK and have had them for a month to three months. There was a large fireworks display a few blocks from my house on the 4th. My wife said she say the blue tang "jump in the tank". Has anyone had a simmilar problem? Any sudgestions for future shows?
thanks :help:
Well my first guess is that they were stressed already... tangs require large tanks at least 75gal for ONE, and if the blue tang ur talking about is a hippo the general accepted size is 100. The mand gobie eats pods so unless your tank is totally full of LR its not going to be enough to keep him alive- by full I mean full I have in my 55 about 110lbs and still dont consider it enough.
Loud noises can startle the fish but if they are healthy the fireworks shouldnt kill the fish you discussed. But blues are skittish anyway.
I live right by giants ballpark and have fireworks all the time w/o any problems. They just hide in the rockwork then come out a few hours afterwards.

 

[jeffkoz]

Thanks. We have about 35lbs of lr and all three were quite small,but will hold off on adding more until going bigger and more lr.
thanks

 

[aarone]

i would say that ear muffs for your fish is one of the stupidest p ieces of advice i have ever seen.
Just put some egg crate over the top and you should be cool

 

[jeffkoz]

Thanks. I was thinking about some soundproffing material. Everyone was doing just fine until the big stuff starting going off. VERRY heavy breathing over the night and when i got up the blue was gone. The other 2 were still breathing hard so i left my light off and finally lost the yelloy yesterday and the blenny this morning.