new Yellow Tang not moving, breathing hard

[deric203]

I just received a Yellow Tang, , 2 Lawnmower blennies and snails from SWF.
Everything looked great when I received them yesterday.
Yellow Tang hid for a while and then started swimming like he owned the tank. no problems with other new additions or previous fish.
Tank-135G
amon-.25
trite-0
trate-0
skimmer, lighting, temp all normal.
Just found Yellow Tang leaning against power head. I moved him and he slowly swam to bottom of tank and is leaning on a rock. He looked fine 2 hours ago.
One tank problem-had an outbreak of green hair algae. Cleaned most of it out and hoped the new fish and snails would help.
Any ideas?

 

[rcoultas]

How long has this tank been set up ? Ammonia is toxic to fish - ideally you should have none. How was the fish acclimated to the tank? Also need to know your PH and SG readings.

 

[deric203]

Tank is 8 months old. 6 months with fish and corals.
Fish was drip acclimated for about 2.5 hours according to swf.com directions.
ph 8.04
sg 1.025
2 clowns, hippo tang, 2 engineer gobies, scott's fairy wrasse, 2gbta's (he split about two weeks ago) and new blennies appear fine.
all water qualities have been zero. While cleaning hair algae two days ago, I stirred up quite a bit of sand while moving rock and cleaning sides. Could that have caused the amonia to rise a bit?
The corals that were moved around and their rocks cleaned look a little under the weather. corals that were not taken out of tank or knocked around during cleaning look good.

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Deric203
Tank is 8 months old. 6 months with fish and corals.
Fish was drip acclimated for about 2.5 hours according to swf.com directions.
ph 8.04
sg 1.025
2 clowns, hippo tang, 2 engineer gobies, scott's fairy wrasse, 2gbta's (he split about two weeks ago) and new blennies appear fine.
all water qualities have been zero. While cleaning hair algae two days ago, I stirred up quite a bit of sand while moving rock and cleaning sides. Could that have caused the amonia to rise a bit?
The corals that were moved around and their rocks cleaned look a little under the weather. corals that were not taken out of tank or knocked around during cleaning look good.
You could have had a small ammonia spike from moving the sand. Take a good look at the YT. Does he look like there are any problems besides him not adapting well? Do you see any spots on him or a pinched stomach?

 

[nycbob]

u think u can post pics of ur yellow tangs? how big r they?