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02-05-2008, 08:18 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 283
|  Tang hurtin'.
He's doin ok, swimming fine. Less active than normal though. He usually swims up and down the back of the tank. Lately since my cleaner shrimp has died, he hangs out where the shrimp used to be... he swims close to the bottom all the time and his right gill is much less active than his left... any thoughts?
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
Coral - Yellow polyps, Kenya Tree, Purple Acro, Pink Birds Nest, Hammer coral. | 
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02-05-2008, 08:47 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2007
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He might be getting parasites in that gill since the cleaner shrimp isn't there to clean him any more. If the cleaner shrimp died of natural causes get another one for your tang, since they form very symbiotic relationships. If the shrimp died from something specific fix it and then get another one. Also are you feeding supplemental marine algae (the good stuff you have to pay for, not the nuisance algae) and high quality food to him?
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55gal,260 watt PC(2x65 actinic,2x65 10k daylight,8 lunar LED) 45#LR, 45#LS, 3 maxi-jet 900's on a natural wavemaker timer,phosban reactor, 5 gal fuge (built out of standard 10 gallon tank) with chaeto, grape, and feather caulerpa, sealife systems protein skimmer, wet/dry, 4 blue/green chromi, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 2 lyretail anthias, 1 royal gramma,1 true perc 5 mexican turbo snails, assorted dwarf blue leg hermits, astrea snails, and nerite snails | |
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02-06-2008, 07:19 AM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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I feed with vitamin enriched brine, blood worms, mysis shrimp(doesn't eat), flake food for herbivores, and dried algae sheets. He hasn't been eating much lately, however he is grazing on everything still... and shrimp died because the anemone ate him... i am ordering a pair of shrimp this weekend as well as a few more crabs for the cleaner crew.. | |
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02-06-2008, 08:03 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator |
I have a Kole tang and a lot of the time he does not come for food. It is very happy grazing on algae in the rock work.
I hate to be the Tang Police but 40G is very small for a tang
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02-06-2008, 09:25 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Originally Posted by Jason McKenzie  I hate to be the Tang Police but 40G is very small for a tang
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I am sorry to have to agree with Jason.
Any chance of trading in at LFS...fish just may be stressed cause of lack of space...
Whenever I have a fish acting abnormal...I try to increase variety of diet and do some water changes...
They most always come around in time...
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