Can I again keep tang in my aquarium

[KING KONG]

I used to have a selfin tang . When I bought added it to my aquarium, it was a lovely fish and was completely healthy. After that I added a neon velvet demsel. I was completely surprised when I saw demsel hitting it's face with it's tail and my tang was happy(as when demsel do that it always stayed in its white colour). Then the problem started after 1 week, it started itching and started developing to develop hole around its eye area. Then I started to search on internet about the cause and at that time I came to know about reef2reef website. It was fantastic I got every information here and I came to know that I can't do anything about it as it has no cure. Only thing I can do is give it a good nutrition. I checked stray voltage, running carbon but nothing was going wrong. Then, I decided to give it varied diet. After that I kept that tang for 4 yrs and finally it died. The day it died, it seemed to be happy. I feeded it only 3 min ago! I was near it when it died. It was swimming and playing with demsel but suddenly falled. I checked it and found that it was died (as I have heard that tangs love to play dead). Few photos are below. See how playful it was. It was one of my best fishes! So should I add a new tang? Will it be a safe move?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Neon damsels can be VERY mean towards other fish.

In the video, the tang is breathing fast/heavy. That is a sign, but a sign of many possible problems; gill disease (flukes, protozoans or bacteria), water quality, low dissolved oxygen, and then, really any systemic disease can cause a fish to breath more rapidly as it progresses.

Jay

 

[KING KONG]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Neon damsels can be VERY mean towards other fish.

In the video, the tang is breathing fast/heavy. That is a sign, but a sign of many possible problems; gill disease (flukes, protozoans or bacteria), water quality, low dissolved oxygen, and then, really any systemic disease can cause a fish to breath more rapidly as it progresses.

Jay

I think my tang has hlle. It rubbed itself from rocks and sand when it was alive. It had also develop patches around it's gill before it died. Actually I know my blue velvet demsel is very very aggressive. It also tried to pick on my new volitan lionfish when I added it. Till now, it had killed 6 fishes. It attacks on the eyes of the fish and causes Popeye. Therefore I added lionfish to get rid of it (as I assume it will eat it soon).
But the most confusing part is I saw blue velvet demsel hitting tail on tang's face and it looked like it was enjoying it. They both hanged out in a corner in same way...

 

[KING KONG]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Neon damsels can be VERY mean towards other fish.

In the video, the tang is breathing fast/heavy. That is a sign, but a sign of many possible problems; gill disease (flukes, protozoans or bacteria), water quality, low dissolved oxygen, and then, really any systemic disease can cause a fish to breath more rapidly as it progresses.

Jay

Does fish itches when in stress? When it came it was completely fine and from then I had keep it till 4 yrs after it developed hlle and died 3 weeks ago

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Does fish itches when in stress? When it came it was completely fine and from then I had keep it till 4 yrs after it developed hlle and died 3 weeks ago

Fish can itch and scratch due to external parasites, like flukes. Those are most often seen when you first get a fish, not after you have had them for years. Did you add any new animals to the tank recently? Maybe they brought flukes in with them.

Are there any fish in the tank other than the velvet damsel?

Jay

 

[albano]

IMO, based on what I can see (can’t see video) ,that tank is way too small for any tangs

 

[KING KONG]

Fish can itch and scratch due to external parasites, like flukes. Those are most often seen when you first get a fish, not after you have had them for years. Did you add any new animals to the tank recently? Maybe they brought flukes in with them.

Are there any fish in the tank other than the velvet damsel?

Jay

I had not added any other fish after it. Blue velvet was there before it. To reduce its aggression,I had moved it to a small tank for 2 days. My Sailfin tang started itching after 1 week. It is still possible that I didn't notice it itching at that time. After 1 week it developed small scars around it face. It just started itching after 1 week when I added it so can be possible it was already affected with flukes.

 

[KING KONG]

Now after it's death, I had only 2 fish,a v.lionfish with blue velvet demsel

 

[KING KONG]

Fish can itch and scratch due to external parasites, like flukes. Those are most often seen when you first get a fish, not after you have had them for years. Did you add any new animals to the tank recently? Maybe they brought flukes in with them.

Are there any fish in the tank other than the velvet damsel?

Jay

I forgot to tell one thing. It also had also started to develop white spots on its fins. More photos that I had taken

 

[i cant think]

I forgot to tell one thing. It also had also started to develop white spots on its fins. More photos that I had taken

It seems he was facing Hole in Head as well as ich or maybe lympho.

 

[KING KONG]

It seems he was facing Hole in Head as well as ich or maybe lympho.

Ooo that means the seller sold me a badly sick fish but how it managed to live 4 yrs?

 

[i cant think]

Ooo that means the seller sold me a badly sick fish but how it managed to live 4 yrs?

Hole in Head doesn’t always start in the LFS and Lympho and Ich mainly attacks the fish when truly stressed.

 

[KING KONG]

Hole in Head doesn’t always start in the LFS and Lympho and Ich mainly attacks the fish when truly stressed.

It started after week I added it to my display so it had that problem from biggining?

 

[KING KONG]

Hole in Head doesn’t always start in the LFS and Lympho and Ich mainly attacks the fish when truly stressed.

I had googled about lymphocystis and yes it looks like that was it. This is how it's fin looks like

 

[Jay Hemdal]

I answered your other thread, but for people following this one, here is my article on HLLE:

Head and Lateral Line Erosion (HLLE)

This article discusses studies performed regarding head and lateral line erosion in captive fishes. Specifically, carbon use and nutrition as they relate to this syndrome.

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

 

[KING KONG]

I answered your other thread, but for people following this one, here is my article on HLLE:

Head and Lateral Line Erosion (HLLE)

This article discusses studies performed regarding head and lateral line erosion in captive fishes. Specifically, carbon use and nutrition as they relate to this syndrome.

www.reef2reef.com

Jay

Sorry for double post