Fish Injured, Swimming Weakly

4FordFamily · Oct 19, 2018

That fish is very thin, and either diseased or not eating. Sorry for the trouble

OceanTeacher · Oct 19, 2018

Thank you all for your advice and patient replies. Sadly, the tang died earlier today.

I'm still not sure of the reason.
But I really appreciate your judgement-free help, and I will use what I have learned to take better care of the remaining fish. I will continue to test the water, and will do more research into the individual fish I keep.

HotRocks · Oct 19, 2018

OceanTeacher said:
Thank you all for your advice and patient replies. Sadly, the tang died earlier today. I'm still not sure of the reason.
But I really appreciate your judgement-free help, and I will use what I have learned to take better care of the remaining fish. I will continue to test the water, and will do more research into the individual fish I keep.

Sorry to hear that.

Keep in mind tangs have extremely high metabolism. Compare them to athletes. They have to eat all day long to keep up with the burnoff. So that's why the nori is so helpful. They can graze most of the day.

Wish you the best moving forward.

oceaninabox12345 · Oct 19, 2018

Im sorry to hear about him [emoji20] thats sad

srusso · Oct 20, 2018

OceanTeacher said:
Thank you all for your advice and patient replies. Sadly, the tang died earlier today. I'm still not sure of the reason.
But I really appreciate your judgement-free help, and I will use what I have learned to take better care of the remaining fish. I will continue to test the water, and will do more research into the individual fish I keep.

Don't be hard on yourself. Its most likely the bug spray in that killed him. Considering he had been in the schools care for 4 years... If keeping water chemistry clean, balanced, etc was an issue then you would have likely seen it sooner. I assume you have an air bubbler or air stone in the aquarium? If so, that could have been a source of the bug spray getting into the tank. Gosh, that's really tough, he could have died also of lack of oxygen, of the tank had to be covered and bubbler was shut off. Kind of had no choice it seems. How often are they spraying in the school?