Help! My tang has his mouth shut with glue

ReefQueen · Mar 14, 2016

Wow I did not realize this was such a common issue! Glad it's something that seems to take care of itself.

reef4beer · Mar 14, 2016

Still no progress, I've been trying to get the poor thing to try to eat maybe he'll budge it off but no luck.

Will keep you all posted, does seem he is able to somewhat open the right side of the mouth.

seastar · Mar 15, 2016

Any luck yet? I honestly didn't know this was a thing. Learn something new here everyday. Now that you've heard all of the encouraging posts that it will be fine I hope you can kind of get a chuckle out of it.

Breadman03 · Mar 15, 2016

Who knew a tang could get rabies?!

Zoey · Mar 15, 2016

Poor fish! hows the tang doing?

Fercho · Mar 15, 2016

If its been like that since sunday i would give it one more day or two. If glue still on i would probably catch the fish and very catefully attempt removing it with sm

reef4beer · Mar 15, 2016

Ok good news, confirmed he is able to open the right side of his mouth so small seaweed bits and food he can consume. Don't see the glue budging even though he tries to pick at rocks. Will give it another day or two and then go the difficult route and try to catch him

Sabellafella · Mar 15, 2016

jmanyoma said:
Ok good news, confirmed he is able to open the right side of his mouth so small seaweed bits and food he can consume. Don't see the glue budging even though he tries to pick at rocks. Will give it another day or two and then go the difficult route and try to catch him

!!!!! Awesome, he should be ok soon, i have pics of my naso when i first got him from what i thought was an infection but wound up bonding his lips together, after 4 days he ripped his pooor lips apart picking at rocks then a week after was nice and healed.

Wiz · Mar 15, 2016

First time I've seen this. Crazy!

reef4beer · Mar 22, 2016

Alright so a week and 2 days later my blue tang is still with his left side of the mouth shut.

Luckily, as stated previously he is able to eat small food from his right side so he has managed to stay at least a bit fed, i have been feeding daily to keep him going and I have started to try to feed with my hand as he is very shy so in a few days he will be used to objects in the water and potentially allow me to catch him.

blacktippr · May 20, 2016

jmanyoma said:
Alright so a week and 2 days later my blue tang is still with his left side of the mouth shut.

Luckily, as stated previously he is able to eat small food from his right side so he has managed to stay at least a bit fed, i have been feeding daily to keep him going and I have started to try to feed with my hand as he is very shy so in a few days he will be used to objects in the water and potentially allow me to catch him.

Did this ever resolved by itself?

reef4beer · May 20, 2016

blacktippr said:
Did this ever resolved by itself?

Yes took about 5 to 6 days but came off none the less

Sabellafella · May 20, 2016

jmanyoma said:
Yes took about 5 to 6 days but came off none the less

Aw glad to hear that !!

Scubabum · Mar 26, 2018

Just wanted to thank the OP and all the responses. This just happened to my Purple tang and had me worried. Looks like everyone agrees that it will just wear off and no need to catch it.