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04-01-2008, 09:10 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge, Ontario Canada Age: 43
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 |  Tang ATTACKED by blue legged hermits
woke up this morning and my yellow tang was struggling to get away from a group of hermit crabs, i was able to get them off but they had already torn one fin off its side and took one side down to the meat. I put him in a QT tank but he passed shortly after 
was just wondering how they could have gotton to him????? 
he was fine the day before _________ 
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04-01-2008, 09:12 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Not likely that your hermits took the tang down. I'm sure that it was sick/weak which caused it to lay on the bottom of the tank. The hermits were just using the opportunity to grab a free meal. Sorry to hear about your fish  | |
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04-01-2008, 09:15 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge, Ontario Canada Age: 43
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but was doing well the night before there was no obvious signs of stress or anything , i check my tank every night before bed and every morning when i get up, all other kids are doing great | |
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04-01-2008, 09:47 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Age: 21
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I agree with amcarrig. I find it hard to believe that a group of hermits could take a tang down. It had to of been sick and possibly not showing any signs.
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75 gallon: 1 yellow tang,1 cherub pygmy angel, 1 Kole Tang, 1 lawnmower blenny,1 orangespotted goby, 1 small watchman goby, 1 pearly jawfish, 2 cleaner shrimp, 4 peppermint shrimp, 1 pistol shrimp, 1 sally light foot, 1 emrald crab, 20 hermits, 5 turbos, 12 mexican turbos and 1 brittle star. And a ton of sandsifting snails. Leather toadstool, frogspawn, 2 pulsing xenia, bubble coral, brain coral, elkhorn, flavia, anthelia, a colt, a goniopora and a rock full of zoas. | |
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04-01-2008, 09:22 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Grand Blanc,MI Age: 39
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Ditto.... I do not think my yellow tang even sleeps. Most scavengers get a bad rap doing what they do best. | |
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04-01-2008, 09:30 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY ( derby town ) Age: 39
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Originally Posted by totter0817  I agree with amcarrig. I find it hard to believe that a group of hermits could take a tang down. It had to of been sick and possibly not showing any signs. |
a healthy yellow is no easy "feat" for a small pack blue leg's i will say though blue legs ( sizable ones ) will attempt to steal snail shells , ive watched them in action , lol quite comical to say the least' but to take down a healthy yellow ?
NOT' i would suspect' the yellow may have been sleeping' in the rock work and been violated' and the others came on in.
or perhaps the yellow was i'll and showed signs of i'llness and laid down some where allowing the blue legs the opurtunity to get a free meal .
I would choose the latter and say the yellow was i'll , i just can't see blue legs' even a whole gaggle of them catching and cornering a yellow , thats kinda like a yellow tiger being attacked by a small pack of EVASARATED MIDGITS ! ..LOL _________ Wildreefs 220 Tank Journal
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04-02-2008, 03:58 AM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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but what if there were alot of evaserated midgets? Do you think you could take on the seven dwarves all by your self? J/K........ _________  | |
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04-02-2008, 06:37 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cambridge, Ontario Canada Age: 43
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 ok LOL
I think the tang was ill
i just dont take loss very well since i had him for over 6 months
as for the 7 dwarfs lol i will take my chances with the tiger LOL
thanks all for your comments | |
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04-02-2008, 07:04 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Hermits are evil. Crabs will eat anything they can. The fish had to be weak, or injured by the crabs to be taken down, but I don't trust crabs. Then again I am biased against them. | |
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04-02-2008, 08:06 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Sorry for your loss... Maybe the band of blues were packing heat...
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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