I ordered a Tomini tang and a yellow watchman goby from Dr. Reef's QT fish last month. They came in on the 9th of this month and unfortunately, the YWG was DOA in the bag. Today I got up and found the Tomini tang had died. I'm soooo disappointed.
Since I had gotten him, he'd been super shy, always hiding when he spotted me but after doing some research a lot of people described similar behavior from their new tominis for the first few weeks. I saw him picking at the rocks eating since Day 1. The last two days he didn't seem to come out when I fed food and would just hide. He would eat frozen mysis, but flakes and pellets he didn't seem to want despite me feeding intentionally heavy. I had ordered some Selcon to try to entice him to eat more aggressively. I tried to examine him and couldn't see any lesions or spots on him his belly looked thin though. Also the clownfish still also look absolutely fine.
Any ideas? Could this be some sort of internal parasite that the clownfish gave to the Tang? Was this just too much stress for him moving to a new tank after the QT & Shipping process?
Dr. Reef said to watch my fish for a week to 10 days to make sure they are ok and he'll replace the fish (which is great, but I'm super disheartened by this. The last thing I want to do is keep killing fish in an attempt to fill up my tank).
Since I had gotten him, he'd been super shy, always hiding when he spotted me but after doing some research a lot of people described similar behavior from their new tominis for the first few weeks. I saw him picking at the rocks eating since Day 1. The last two days he didn't seem to come out when I fed food and would just hide. He would eat frozen mysis, but flakes and pellets he didn't seem to want despite me feeding intentionally heavy. I had ordered some Selcon to try to entice him to eat more aggressively. I tried to examine him and couldn't see any lesions or spots on him his belly looked thin though. Also the clownfish still also look absolutely fine.
Any ideas? Could this be some sort of internal parasite that the clownfish gave to the Tang? Was this just too much stress for him moving to a new tank after the QT & Shipping process?
Dr. Reef said to watch my fish for a week to 10 days to make sure they are ok and he'll replace the fish (which is great, but I'm super disheartened by this. The last thing I want to do is keep killing fish in an attempt to fill up my tank).