AUSXMD
Active Member
Hello,
My Naso Tang that I've had nearly 2 years died today seemingly just out of the blue. My Octopus skimmer broke 2 weeks ago. I ordered another one right away and knowing it'd take a week to arrive did a normal 15-20% waterchange which is what I do normally. All other inhabitants are fine. The tang ate normally this morning. I went just to see how the skimmer was doing as it "breaks in." Normally all of the fish, but especially the tang, come right up to the glass. It struck me odd that it didn't. I started looking around the aquarium (230 gallons) and could not find him. I could not find him in the rock work for a long time until I finally saw a portion of his back wedged way down in the live rock. He was dead and wedged in a way where he'd have to swim backwards to get out. Im not sure if tangs can back out of areas where they cannot turn around, or swim backwards. I don’t think he was ill or stressed. It's a FOWLR tank with lots of live rock and other community fish. I have a blue spot puffer, 2 chromis, melanuras wrasse, 2 clowns, a foxface, flame angel, juvenile Koran angel and 2 starfish, 3 anenome. Sump has filter socks, chaeto fuge, brand new octo skimmer and bagged purigen in the return area. I searched on here for a bit looking for a similiar situation but found nothing that matched up. Can/do fish get stuck in rock work? Is there something else I might be missing? I cant imagine being without a skimmer killed him but left other fish unfazed.
Thanks for anything you can come up with!
Scott
My Naso Tang that I've had nearly 2 years died today seemingly just out of the blue. My Octopus skimmer broke 2 weeks ago. I ordered another one right away and knowing it'd take a week to arrive did a normal 15-20% waterchange which is what I do normally. All other inhabitants are fine. The tang ate normally this morning. I went just to see how the skimmer was doing as it "breaks in." Normally all of the fish, but especially the tang, come right up to the glass. It struck me odd that it didn't. I started looking around the aquarium (230 gallons) and could not find him. I could not find him in the rock work for a long time until I finally saw a portion of his back wedged way down in the live rock. He was dead and wedged in a way where he'd have to swim backwards to get out. Im not sure if tangs can back out of areas where they cannot turn around, or swim backwards. I don’t think he was ill or stressed. It's a FOWLR tank with lots of live rock and other community fish. I have a blue spot puffer, 2 chromis, melanuras wrasse, 2 clowns, a foxface, flame angel, juvenile Koran angel and 2 starfish, 3 anenome. Sump has filter socks, chaeto fuge, brand new octo skimmer and bagged purigen in the return area. I searched on here for a bit looking for a similiar situation but found nothing that matched up. Can/do fish get stuck in rock work? Is there something else I might be missing? I cant imagine being without a skimmer killed him but left other fish unfazed.
Thanks for anything you can come up with!
Scott
