Sudden Ammonia spike - Dead Fish

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Came home to a Spiny Box Puffer breathing hard at the bottom of the tank and a dead Yellow Mimic Tang. Humu Humu Trigger seems fine. Snowflake Eel is hidden, but I'm used to that. He was fine last night. I did have a Paly colony in tank, that seems to have been nipped at. It was foolish to have that in there, just removed it.

100 G tank
Water Parameters
SG: 1.026
Ph: 8.2
A: 1.0
Ni: 0.2
Na <10

Ammonia was non-zero last time I checked (Thursday), but around .1. I did a 15% water change last Thursday.

Would the Ammonia spike be from the dead Tang? Or is it likely the spike killed the Tang? I did a 30% water change at lunch today. Everything seemed fine when I fed last night.
 

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