Tangs Dieing

[spider9376]

Hay Again
Can some one help me in telling me why all my Tangs are dying. I've got a 55Gal. Yea I know it's not large enough for Tangs! That being said, I have hade four sents Aug 9th. 1st was a baby Regal. it lasted 17days but it got ich and could not recover ok. 2nd was a power brown it lasted 10 days, 3rd was a Clown Tang it lasted 10 days, 4th was a Yellow eye, it lasted 5 days. All my Tangs was small. I’m not getting anymore but I don't understand why I can't keep Tangs, I feed them dried Seaweed with garlic and roman Lettice, They would also eat off the L/R. I keep the temp between 76.5 to 77.3 all the time. My S/G is at 1.026. Ammonia 0 , Nitrate 0 , PH 8.4 , Nitrite 0 . I do 20% water change the third week of each Month. Besides the tank being to small can anyone give me any reasons why they would just up and die. No other fish bothered then so they was not stress. They all ate good aswell.
Thanks Spider9376

 

[keri]

Did the regal have ich while it was IN your tank or in a QT, are the others dying of ich? Do you have any other fish or inverts? How are they doing?

 

[markeo99]

I have tried 3 with no luck usually just wont eat

 

[spiderwoman]

It was most likely stress and the size of the tank doesn't help, but you already know that.
How much LR and how long has the tank been running?
What did you feed them?

 

[spider9376]

Only the regal had ich and yes it was in the QT. I have in my tank now
4 Hermit Crab
Blue Face Angle
2 Feather dusters
4 Pajama Cardinal
2 Blue Comas.
2 clown fish
3 baby Emerald crab
1 mandarin Goby
4 Blacktail Dascyllus
1 Diadem Dottyback
1 coral bandit
1 Finger Coral
3 Anemones

 

[zanoshanox]

How long has the tank been set up??

 

[spiderwoman]

If that is your stocklist, then your 55g tank is way overstocked. Please don't put any more fish in there, please!

 

[-tara33-]

yup its the benificial bacteria there isnt enuff to keep that many fish with a tang cant brake down the waste,

at least you have learnt to do no more tangs, thats a good thing

 

[m0nk]

First, your tank is heavily overstocked. Too many fish will cause a stressful environment for any newcomer, but also for the existing fish as well.
Second, a 55g is too small for tangs, even in juvenile state. Juveniles are a lot more sensitive to things and more likely to suffer from the stress of a small tank, breakout with ich and/or HLLE, and even stop eating because of too much competition. Tangs in general need a higher percentage of dissolved oxygen as well, and a larger stocklist will decrease this level drastically.
On another note, a 55g is also too small of a tank for a mandarin. You'd need way more live rock and a refugium to breed copepods so your mandarin doesn't starve. Unless you're adding a new batch of live copepods to your tank monthly, you're mandarin will likely starve and die in time.
Please research your fish more carefully in the future, and find a new home for some of these fish. It'll help you be more successful in this hobby.

 

[spider9376]

OK mOnk thanks for you info, but I don't understand your statement "refugium to breed copepods so your mandarin doesn't starve". My tank is self contained, well I will just show you with pic's also how do you breed copedpods? Thanks Spider9376

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[subielover]

Good lord you have too many fish in there, sheesh. That being said, a refugium is generally the easiest place to breed pods. Pods are the ONLY thing that mandarins eat (99% of the time.)

 

[grubsnaek]

wowwwwzers

 

[crimzy]

Don't want to repeat what's already been said but what explanation are you looking for BESIDES your tank being grossly undersized for 4 tangs?
I'd also say that adding any 4 fish to a 55 gallon tank at once is a huge mistake.
Finally, your blue face angel will not last long in that tank either. Please get rid of it.
Why do you add these fish if you already know your tank is not large enough to support them?