Bristle tooth tang

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How do you know if your bristle tooth tang is healthy and doing alright.

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How do you know if your bristle tooth tang is healthy and doing alright.

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Seeming this is a twin spot, you’ll need a white light photo (or video) for us to say if he’s healthy.

However, signs of him being unhealthy or unhappy are;
- Hunger Strikes (Is he feeding or not)
- Pacing (Is he constantly running along the glass constantly)
- Picky but feeding (If he is feeding, how does he feed - is it anything or is he being selective with smaller bits)
- Skinniness (How fat is he? Can you see his spine?)
- Breathing Rate (Is he breathing quickly - this can be a sign of stress or disease)

They’re the main ones IME, but there are other signs like is he showing ich, fluke or velvet signs - white spotting over the body or flicking his body along rocks and the sand.
 

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It’s difficult to see in these pictures.
Is it eating? Picking at the rocks to scrape algae?
 

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No I am just making sure I am not missing anything that I should know it is just my first time keeping one of these guys
You’ll find that these guys are easy once established, mine is 4.5-5 years now and I’ve had more issues with my angels and wrasses when it comes to deaths/disease than I have with this tang.
 

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