HELP!!!

[MarineDan]

Hi,

My blue tang (Dory) is missing!!
2 days ago I moved my powerhead facing up to break the water surface and since then my tang has been acting really odd.
Yesterday was feeding day for them all, my yellow tang, 2 clown fish and shrimp all came up for food but my blue tang laid under a rock like cave she seemed to have made and didn't come up for food! Early hours this morning I see him in his usual place of sleep and come home from work now and cannot find him anywhere!!! What is going on!!!! Gutted if she is dead or dying! I've worked so hard to get where I've got too!!! :(

Thanks.

 

[Evan West]

Parameters? Start with looking at the simple stuff first.

 

[Brandon42]

have you checked your overflow?

 

[Reefing Madness]

Hippo Tangs are just flat out weird fish. Mine still hides to this day, all day. They are just easily spooked fish. If you want to keep him hiding, then go look for him, if not, just give him time to come out.

 

[ahiggins]

Ive never had a tang before but from what I have picked up via LFS and others-tangs can be very odd fish. They just are weird.
Can be fine one day and then hide and do really odd things the next. Ive seen one lay on a powerhead for hours...next day-its fine.
Good luck

 

[MarineDan]

Found him.. Dead! Absolutely gutted!! He was in between the rocks with hermet crabs over him.. Eyes gone, fins gone!! What could of caused this? The others are fine, ate well yesterday..

 

[Brandon42]

Found him.. Dead! Absolutely gutted!! He was in between the rocks with hermet crabs over him.. Eyes gone, fins gone!! What could of caused this? The others are fine, ate well yesterday..

oh wow, thats too bad..sory

 

[ahiggins]

aww man...that sucks :(

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

Hard to tell since the only unusual behavior you stated was him hiding and not eating. I had a blue tang 10 years ago and he would routinely hide except for when it was time to eat. He would come out and swim furiously after every piece of food.

They are timid fish so it's hard to pin point why he died. I would check parameters and observe your tank for a good period to see if any of your fish are displaying any illnesses or aggressions towards one another (yellow tang is the only fish you listed that can possibly cause this).

I'm currently missing a purple Dottyback. Have not seen him for five days. I know he's dead somewhere, just can't find him. Tank inhabitants are one maroon clownfish and a paired yellow watchman and pistol shrimp. I know he's dead because of the watchman behavior. Watchman would occasionally come out of its cave and swim nervously at the corner of the tank. This was because of the dottyback's territorial dispute over calming a certain rock in my 90gallon tank. Now he spends almost all of his day at the base of that rock/cave relaxing.