Sorry for your loss. Don't worry, i have posts at 1 AMApologies for the late night post, and please forgive me if I didn't answer right away. It's been a tough day. I'm mourning the loss of my tang. I raised him from a tiny baby a year ago to the 10" long monsterfish he became. He was eating from my hand last night. Fine, fat, healthy earlier today. Then he was suddenly dead. I got him out immediately but did not witness it happening. No outward signs of any trauma or disease. Everything else in the tank is fine as though nothing happened. One odd thing I found was shrimp stuck on the filter intake. (He ate a wide variety of foods at different intervals, nori, frozen, flakes and freeze dried shrimp.) He had a voracious appetite and often ate the shrimp cubes whole before they even broke up. Could this have killed him?
The other odd thing- On Monday I cleaned out the filter media and added new seeded xport bio blocks, and this is now Friday. I found a broken piece of block somehow in the sand. If he'd eaten that, would it kill him? I'm just at a loss, second guessing, blaming myself, and I suppose i will never know. Very saddened over this.
6ft 125g, Other inhabitants include 4 clownfish, 2 cardinals, 3 purple and 5 blue chromis, starfish, urchins, hermit crabs, horseshoe crab, snails, small clams and oysters, sponges, hermits, various gorgonians and way too many amphipods. Too mentally exhausted to test parameters tonight but everyone appears perfectly normal & unaffected.
Apologies also for such a long post.