Hippo Tang Behavior Post Crash

[litsoh]

Long story short I royally messed up during a routine water change, algae scrub and caused a crash in which the only survivors were my clowns, hippo tang, and inverts. In the process of trying to save everything I moved the fish to buckets with an airstone while I did a large water change. Some rock was also moved around in the process so I guess it was a slight reset to the territories, but since putting the hippo back i to the tank it’s been on the skittish side and would pace around the side glass by its lair. It’s eating and picking algae as normal but it still spends much of its time circling the rock around its lair or swimming against the side glass panel. I want to assume this is just normal hippi tang behavior since it might consider this a “new” tank, but has anyone had something similar happen?

 

[Baldyreef]

Long story short I royally messed up during a routine water change, algae scrub and caused a crash in which the only survivors were my clowns, hippo tang, and inverts. In the process of trying to save everything I moved the fish to buckets with an airstone while I did a large water change. Some rock was also moved around in the process so I guess it was a slight reset to the territories, but since putting the hippo back i to the tank it’s been on the skittish side and would pace around the side glass by its lair. It’s eating and picking algae as normal but it still spends much of its time circling the rock around its lair or swimming against the side glass panel. I want to assume this is just normal hippi tang behavior since it might consider this a “new” tank, but has anyone had something similar happen?

im very sorry to hear that, its always tough losing fish especially to a crash. while seems like its just the "new" tank behavior and stress from the crash but definitely worth noting that i have not been in this situation before. truly best of luck i hope all ends well

 

[litsoh]

Long story short I royally messed up during a routine water change, algae scrub and caused a crash in which the only survivors were my clowns, hippo tang, and inverts. In the process of trying to save everything I moved the fish to buckets with an airstone while I did a large water change. Some rock was also moved around in the process so I guess it was a slight reset to the territories, but since putting the hippo back i to the tank it’s been on the skittish side and would pace around the side glass by its lair. It’s eating and picking algae as normal but it still spends much of its time circling the rock around its lair or swimming against the side glass panel. I want to assume this is just normal hippi tang behavior since it might consider this a “new” tank, but has anyone had something similar happen?

im very sorry to hear that, its always tough losing fish especially to a crash. while seems like its just the "new" tank behavior and stress from the crash but definitely worth noting that i have not been in this situation before. truly best of luck i hope all ends well

Definitely took the wind out of my sails a bit as the tank was at a point where I was letting things coast and not looking to add or change anything. But it is what it is, a costly mistake but one that won’t happen again