jrock77
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I have had this tang for about three weeks now. He is in my reef tank with two other "yellow" tangs. They all get along just fine. I must say that I have never actually seen him eat though. When I put in the seaweed selects on the clip the two "yellow" tangs come right up to it and the kole just sort of "chills" in the background behind some rock. I have seen the kole eat or suck the walls and sometimes the rock, but never eats the flake/seaweed select/or liquid fresh food I use. The other fish eat all three. He is always swimming around and around, he will swim half the length of the tank over this arc of rock back down then half the length again, I counted once he did this 28 times before he stopped only to start up again after he swam to the other end.
Yesterday morning I noticed that the kole was sort of just sitting on the bottom and had no desire to move, I couldn't do much about it at the time because I had to go to work. I dreaded coming home, because I thought I was gong to find one floating fish. Much to my surprize he was doing his laps again and seemed to be nothing wrong. Well later that night I noticed he was "sitting" on the bottom again, I decided to net him and put him in my quarantie tank for closer obsevation. He really didn't even try to avoid the net, it was way to easy to scoop him up. Once I put him in the container to be accimialted into the QT he began so swim around the perameter of the container.
Since he has been in the QT for a day now he just stays in the middle and swimes in circles around around. I fed him this morning with some flake food, tried putting some seaweed selects prior to leaving this morning in hopes he would eat it. I thought maybe the other two tangs were getting to it before he had a chance. When I got home the whole piece of seaweed select was still on the clip.
I have never had any fish do this, just wondering if this in fact is a normal thing for Kole Tangs, or is there something wrong with him? I have looked in the books I have and they don't specify each member only just "tangs" I haven't asked my local pet store, but you know how that can go!
thanks for any input or advice!!
Yesterday morning I noticed that the kole was sort of just sitting on the bottom and had no desire to move, I couldn't do much about it at the time because I had to go to work. I dreaded coming home, because I thought I was gong to find one floating fish. Much to my surprize he was doing his laps again and seemed to be nothing wrong. Well later that night I noticed he was "sitting" on the bottom again, I decided to net him and put him in my quarantie tank for closer obsevation. He really didn't even try to avoid the net, it was way to easy to scoop him up. Once I put him in the container to be accimialted into the QT he began so swim around the perameter of the container.
Since he has been in the QT for a day now he just stays in the middle and swimes in circles around around. I fed him this morning with some flake food, tried putting some seaweed selects prior to leaving this morning in hopes he would eat it. I thought maybe the other two tangs were getting to it before he had a chance. When I got home the whole piece of seaweed select was still on the clip.
I have never had any fish do this, just wondering if this in fact is a normal thing for Kole Tangs, or is there something wrong with him? I have looked in the books I have and they don't specify each member only just "tangs" I haven't asked my local pet store, but you know how that can go!
thanks for any input or advice!!
