well as the title suggest my naso isn’t doing well. he is really stressed( discolored and hiding in the back.) i just noticed this today. perfectly fine yesterday, he ate twice swam around like crazy. last night i was installing a gfo reactor and my lights went on and off a few times. i know this fish needs a new home but he cant go anywhere in this condition. he didnt eat today i do have some garlic xtream i could try. please try not to yell at me too much, my laptop crashed and now i’m trying to make post with my wii.
i should mention that all other fish are doing fine
If you already haven’t tried this, try feeding with some nori. they really like it. Just rubberband some to a rock and place on bottom of tank. good luck
Sorry to hear Bret. Tangs get spooked easy. Just keep an eye for other signs besides the color fade and hiding.(spots, marks, and so on) They get hungry fast, so it should eat soon. I wouldn’t panic if it didn’t though.
It might be best to keep your hands out of the tank for a while and maybe even reduce the photo period.(lights out a little early) Hopefully it is just stressed/spoked and will be ok.
Double check your water chemistry and keep an eye on the fish. Keep us updated. I hope it turns around for you and it makes it out alright.
What all do you feed the Tang Bret? Try adding a little bit of everyting over the next couple of days to see if anything gets it excited.(not too much of any just a mixed sample) Mine LOVES Julian Sprung’s mixed Sea Veggies… however I haven’t actually seen my tang turn down any food.
Fish get spooked easily by anything and everything. Also being crammed in a 25g doesn’t help being a naso tang. I would look for a new home asap, naso’s are hardy fish, they can take moving/shipping.
The thing was tiny and he had planned to move it in a month. Why do we have to keep 1" fish in a 220g tank? It wasn’t a bad situation for the fish and it had been doing well. It is past the time line he had originally to move it though.
Well me personally would never put a tang of any type in a 25 gallon tank. Not that I am the TANG PO PO or anything just would not do it no matter what the fish size. Poor guy is probably stressed to no end.
wow, i feel bret has been keeping reef atnks long enough to know when it’s time to move the fish. tank size alone is not enough to stress a fish. maybe a large fish would have initial shock, but not a small one. and as it grows, the small tank is all it knows. so no reason for stress. bio load will become the issue when it gets big, and bret is plenty knowledgable to know when his bio load is getting too big.
i had a small naso for over a month in my 180, never any issue. very active, and ate like a pig. just died one day. no signs of stress, no warning signs. nothing. sometimes we never actually know what happened, and it was nothing we were at fault for. hope he comes out of it for ya brett.
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sometimes we never actually know what happened, and it was nothing we were at fault for. hope he comes out of it for ya brett.[/quote]
Very true. Just too many factors going on it is impossible to have knowledge of all of them let alone control. Cyanide poising effects fish months after the occurrence.(though apparently pretty rare it still happens) Many diseases and parasites can go undetected for long period of time. Could have been a small rock slide in the tank that mess it up or a predator hidden in the rocks that hadn’t bothered anything until it got hungry enough.