HELP HELP HELP - My Naso is in jeopardy!!!!

samfishes

samfishes

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My bf just phoned and apparently our Naso Tang is being a bit wierd at home!

We got him about a month ago and right away he started eating fine and seemed to settle in really well. But after a couple of weeks he seemed to stop feeding and got really skinny. He also seemed a bit disorientated, just floating with the current of the tank. We were having a few nitrate probs which are now under control.
We have since gotten rid of 2 blue green chromis and a rather aggressive clown and he seemed to perk up a bit. yesterday we put in a new puffer which again, seemed to acclimatise very well but this morning the tang is lying on it's side at the bottom of the tank looking very poorly indeed. Please help, what is wrong with him?!?!?!
 
samfishes

samfishes

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We feed a range of frozen food, such as brine shrimp and spirulla, brine shrimp and garlic, artemia, "nanocuisine"(???) and green seaweed. PH 8.3, ammonia and nitrite virtually zero, and nitrate ~20ppm
 
samfishes

samfishes

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Oh and some live brineshrimp every week or so, just to mix it up. His housemates are 1x puffer, 1x yellow tang. 2xdamsels, 1xunidentified (!!! but very very docile and solitary, definately no stessing coming from him!) 1xlobster who lives in a whole, 1xhermit crab. None of the others seem sick
 
ajroc31

ajroc31

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Dark color is stress. Stop with the garlic, there is not a single study that could conclusively link garlic to anything beneficial in your tank. Its basically snake oil. Only thing I could think of is internal parasite. Try to increase oxygen levels in the tank, make breathing little easier for him.
 
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