If you have a deep sand bed, might be toxic gas bubbles that goes to the top quickly but your YT ingested one and other fishes did not. Thats the only logically explanation I can come up with.
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My sand bed is around 1/2" to 1" deep at the mostIf you have a deep sand bed, might be toxic gas bubbles that goes to the top quickly but your YT ingested one and other fishes did not. Thats the only logically explanation I can come up with.
What parasite are they talking about here?Found a interesting quote from a tang disease article today:
"Let me speak from experience watching dozens suffer before I could catch them (always too late) to treat:
The parasite slowly increases its presence on the fish. Starts on the gills out of sight, then on to fins, then all over the head and perhaps other areas. They increase in numbers.
Simultaneously the gills become more and more damaged and the fish is increasingly less able to breathe and very slowly suffocates over weeks.
The fish can be fat in the belly but it's lateral line and bones will begin to show. The parasite literally sucks the nourishment and life out of the fish. A morbidly obese tang in the belly region will eventually appear emaciated throughout the rest of its body as it suffers more and more. They will scratch, breathe heavy, lose color, swim sporadically which fades to hiding and becoming less active. They will eventually stop eating, and the parasite will finally suck the remaining hint of life out of them.
If well fed and fat (lots of nori) the process can take 2-6 weeks before killing it off.
It is horrible to watch, I somehow justified it by claiming the fish was weak and would have died anyway. The above experiences largely negate that. It's awful to watch them suffer this way on a glim hope that I will magically start warding them off. With my success over the past few years with these fish I can't believe I used to have trouble before. This is so much easier and more rewarding (treating all fish and properly quarantining)."
My guess now is a internal disease that slowly wasted the fish away. But because the fish was quarantined I'm still unsure. What was described by the writer almost exactly described what happened to the YT.
It was related to ich and the "managing'' of it in reef tanks.What parasite are they talking about here?
Jay
It was related to ich and the "managing'' of it in reef tanks.
Here is the article:
Ich and Acanthurus tangs - Years of experience and ich management
Alright folks I wanted to share some pretty shameful realities about my past and dealing with Acanthurus tangs. To anyone that doesn't know, common Acanthurus tangs include Powder Blue, Powder Brown, Goldrim/white cheek, Achilles, Sohal, Clown...www.reef2reef.com
maybe YT got super stressed out from moving rocks around, hit something in the tank and then diedCould it just be a combination of the YT not being fat and fit enough and when the rock work was rescaped it just gave up on life?
I guess that is the most logical explanation...maybe YT got super stressed out from moving rocks around, hit something in the tank and then died
Sorry for your loss