Blonde Naso Tang dead

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So I woke up this morning to find my blonde Naso tang dead. I purchased it back in august and it went through an extensive quarantine process to insure no transfer of parasite/ disease to the display tank (copper power, prazi, metro). I attached a picture below. Any ideas as to what could’ve caused the death?

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Blonde naso are hard to care for. I've had my share of it that it came in really healthy and thrived for couple of months and all of a sudden die. Stress I would say would be a big factor since they are peaceful calm and timid creatures and they get stressed so easily. Well that was the case in my tank..
Any chance someone was stressing it specially during feeding time?
 
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I had a baby hippo in observation with the naso. I’ve never seen them fight but who knows.

Blonde naso are hard to care for. I've had my share of it that it came in really healthy and thrived for couple of months and all of a sudden die. Stress I would say would be a big factor since they are peaceful calm and timid creatures and they get stressed so easily. Well that was the case in my tank..
Any chance someone was stressing it specially during feeding time?
 

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Like above, I know others have had success, but unfortunately for some reason I have failed twice with them over my 12yrs. After I read more and more and encountered many other stories, I’ve pretty much moved that fish to my “non compatibility/expert” side of my list...unfortunately because they are BEAUTIFUL!
 

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One of the few fish I've never been able to keep. This and a powder blue.......and the powder blue is one of my favorite fish
 

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I will add as well that I have had a difficult time with Naso tangs. I have a purple Tang that will have been in my tank for 15 years in January, but I have had a few Naso’s die on me. I don’t know why they are difficult to keep, but they are. None of mine have lasted more than a couple months.

Sorry to hear about your loss.
 

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& I have had the opposite experience. 1st one in with 5 purples a Chevron & hippo.
2nd one not blonde but in with a powder blue.
 

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Probably too late now, but I often give freshly dead fish a FW dip, just to check to ensure they didn't have flukes. An even better option is to do a skin scrape, but you need a microscope to evaluate that.

That looks like a pretty small tang. The discoloration on the belly is probably just a post-mortem artifact, but is there same damage to the trailing edge of the caudal fin?

Jay
 
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Yup. I’d feed it three times a day a mix of hikari seaweed extreme pellets and lfs reef frenzy. Would eat like a pig. Around 3 weeks ago he went on a hunger strike for two days then started eating again.

was the fish eating well?
 
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I doubt it was flukes since I treated it with prazi. I would consider investing in a microscope to observe and inspect skin scrapings of fish. Any suggestions on a good microscope?


Probably too late now, but I often give freshly dead fish a FW dip, just to check to ensure they didn't have flukes. An even better option is to do a skin scrape, but you need a microscope to evaluate that.

That looks like a pretty small tang. The discoloration on the belly is probably just a post-mortem artifact, but is there same damage to the trailing edge of the caudal fin?

Jay
 
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Yup it was about 2.5 - 3 inches. It did seem to have the same discolouration on the caudal fin. It appeared post-mortem and wasn’t there prior. I found the corpse on small power head so that could’ve been the cause of the discolouration.
That looks like a pretty small tang. The discoloration on the belly is probably just a post-mortem artifact, but is there same damage to the trailing edge of the caudal fin?

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I doubt it was flukes since I treated it with prazi. I would consider investing in a microscope to observe and inspect skin scrapings of fish. Any suggestions on a good microscope?
Amscope binocular dissecting scopes run about $140. I bought a microscope for my iPhone for $17 though.
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I have had to within the past year eating fine doing excellent then one morning dying. I can’t figure out such a beautiful fish.
 
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