Rubber bands not fish safe!

[Rjramos]

In my 30+ years of keeping marine fish, what happened yesterday has never occurred. I look at my 120 reef last night after feeding and my 14 y o purple tang has a rubber band around his entire body. I use a rubber band to secure seaweed to a small rock on a string for my tangs. Seldomly, I’ve noticed that they’ve pulled the rubber band off the rock, and left it in the tank out of difficulty getting to it among rocks. I remember my big blue tang passing a rubber band from anal cavity a long time ago, but nothing like this! I’m thinking of using the clip I have, but they pull the whole piece of seaweed off of it and it makes a mess. Anyways, I was able to net him and as I attempted to remove it, it broke, which I think would have happened eventually, but I didn’t want to take chances. It didn’t look good.

 

[Dempsey941]

Tang: Found a cool new hat

Owner: Lol Nope.

 

[9975]

He seems to be looking at you like "dude what the heck"

 

[homer1475]

Ok I expected it to be like around its body, or around it's mouth, Not length wise down it's entire body!

How in the H E double hockey sticks did it get around it's entire body?

 

[piranhaman00]

OMG i thought it was just hanging out of its mouth.

 

[JGT]

In my 30+ years of keeping marine fish, what happened yesterday has never occurred. I look at my 120 reef last night after feeding and my 14 y o purple tang has a rubber band around his entire body. I use a rubber band to secure seaweed to a small rock on a string for my tangs. Seldomly, I’ve noticed that they’ve pulled the rubber band off the rock, and left it in the tank out of difficulty getting to it among rocks. I remember my big blue tang passing a rubber band from anal cavity a long time ago, but nothing like this! I’m thinking of using the clip I have, but they pull the whole piece of seaweed off of it and it makes a mess. Anyways, I was able to net him and as I attempted to remove it, it broke, which I think would have happened eventually, but I didn’t want to take chances. It didn’t look good.

That’s pretty amazing. Probably couldn’t do that even if he tried.

 

[9975]

He doesn't want to grow any bigger so he's now self contained

 

[Rjramos]

He seems to be looking at you like "dude what the heck"

Yea, I caught him in like 10 min too, I think he wanted me to help.

 

[Rjramos]

Ok I expected it to be like around its body, or around it's mouth, Not length wise down it's entire body!

How in the H E double hockey sticks did it get around it's entire body?

I have no idea ‍.

 

[Krzydmnd]

glad to hear he'll bounce back :rolleyes:, but thats one of the funniest aquarium stories i've heard, llo.

 

[KorD]

Sorry, but that pic made me laugh.

 

[StlSalt]

I bet he was thinking "Dangit, 2020 strikes again"

That poor guy. Glad he wasn't hurt too bad, well except for his pride.

 

[Tankkeepers]

Glad hes ok
But that picture right there is the definition of a dork fish
Mabey he was dressing up for Halloween

 

[SAWFISH]

In my 30+ years of keeping marine fish, what happened yesterday has never occurred. I look at my 120 reef last night after feeding and my 14 y o purple tang has a rubber band around his entire body. I use a rubber band to secure seaweed to a small rock on a string for my tangs. Seldomly, I’ve noticed that they’ve pulled the rubber band off the rock, and left it in the tank out of difficulty getting to it among rocks. I remember my big blue tang passing a rubber band from anal cavity a long time ago, but nothing like this! I’m thinking of using the clip I have, but they pull the whole piece of seaweed off of it and it makes a mess. Anyways, I was able to net him and as I attempted to remove it, it broke, which I think would have happened eventually, but I didn’t want to take chances. It didn’t look good.

It stinks you do not have a video camera on the tank, I would like to see how the tang managed to get the rubber band around itself like that

 

[BZOFIQ]

That is actually pretty funny. Glad you were able to help him.

 

[ScubaFish802]

Is this how you frag a tang? Keep adding tighter rubber bands until it splits?

 

[SAWFISH]

Is this how you frag a tang? Keep adding tighter rubber bands until it splits?

Just a couple more rubber bands and he would have had two tangs!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Exercise band?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Reason I use clips

 

[argiBK]

New Fall Fish Fashion? Our pet's get into the oddest situations... on walks, my dog manages to get himself tangled in his leash, vines, branches without much effort, but he's sort of a Murphy's law dog, anything can happen with him!

Not sure if you feed dry Nori or live seaweed. I fold my Nori several times or roll it up into a tube and clip it in halfway across the length and it prevents a good deal of ripping from the aggressive eaters.