sly
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I have had a yellow tang in my tank for about 3 years. Very healthy, fat and swims naturally (not skiddish all the time). I recently added a lime green zoo an LTA, some snails, crabs, feather dusters, rotifers, shaving brush and copepods.
After 2 days my tang has started freaking out. He is constantly swimming, darting around as if something has scared him to death. If I can't get him to calm down he is going to die. I suspected he might have been stung by the anemone but there are no marks on his body. I added some activated carbon and turned on the ozone to help remove anything that could be in the water.
One thing I have changed is the direction the water flows in the tank. I moved the outlet so that it blows to the back of the tank rather than the front. Could this have caused a problem? Was he so used to the currents that now he has lost his bearing? I moved it back just in case.
I covered the tank with a sheet and that seems to have helped some but he is still panicky. He is not eating much either. I always keep him a romaine leaf or some algae sheets to graze off of.
I noticed the shaving brush really stunk when I got it out of the bag. They looked healty but had a bad smell. I have them in the refugium. Could some sort of bacteria have caused the tang to act weird? Like I said, I don't see anything on his body.
I don't think anything in the tank is harassing him. I have 2 clowns, 6 green chromis and a mandarin goby. They are all pretty peaceful.
Could the anemone have sent out stingers into the water? Is there any way to tell? Is the tang just being territorial toward the anemone? I moved it away from his feeding spot and it has found a place on the opposite side of the tank. Maybe he was just stung and is taking several days to get over it.
After 2 days my tang has started freaking out. He is constantly swimming, darting around as if something has scared him to death. If I can't get him to calm down he is going to die. I suspected he might have been stung by the anemone but there are no marks on his body. I added some activated carbon and turned on the ozone to help remove anything that could be in the water.
One thing I have changed is the direction the water flows in the tank. I moved the outlet so that it blows to the back of the tank rather than the front. Could this have caused a problem? Was he so used to the currents that now he has lost his bearing? I moved it back just in case.
I covered the tank with a sheet and that seems to have helped some but he is still panicky. He is not eating much either. I always keep him a romaine leaf or some algae sheets to graze off of.
I noticed the shaving brush really stunk when I got it out of the bag. They looked healty but had a bad smell. I have them in the refugium. Could some sort of bacteria have caused the tang to act weird? Like I said, I don't see anything on his body.
I don't think anything in the tank is harassing him. I have 2 clowns, 6 green chromis and a mandarin goby. They are all pretty peaceful.
Could the anemone have sent out stingers into the water? Is there any way to tell? Is the tang just being territorial toward the anemone? I moved it away from his feeding spot and it has found a place on the opposite side of the tank. Maybe he was just stung and is taking several days to get over it.
