a tang always needs creful consideration before buying, in your ccase sound
like hes just being territyorial. some how he feels threatened by your
other fish, or just feels that the other fish is in his space, indicating
there isnt enough room in your tank for him. if this is not the case then
you got yourself a sick tang maybe, sick in the head due to stress.
wolfhedd
"william bales" wrote in message
...
I have a 125 that is a sal****er tank and it has been running for a couple
years with live sand and rock, canister eheim,wet/dry filter, and a
turboflotor 1000 skimmer. I recently added 2 fish as I finally got rid of
my
eels. I added a tang and a racoon face butterfly fish. The tang started
acting weird immediately. Smimming fast and rapid gilling. I did a 30%
water
change and checked the levels. This didnt help. Woke up next morning and
the
butterfly fish is the same way now swimming sideways and scratching gills.
I
didnt see any ick or velvet on them but I knew something was wrong anyway.
LFS couldnt be of any help for sal****er. I gave them both a 5 minute
freshwater bath and put them in a 10 g quarantine tank with the salinity
at
1.011 for Osmotic shock therapy and added copper to the water. A few days
go
by and the fish are acting much healthier. The only problem is the tang is
trying to kill the butterfly fish spearing him with his tail. So I took
the
butterfly fish out and put him back in the 125. Same sysmptoms as before.
He
has been acting this way for 5 days now. I dont know what to do as I dont
have money or room for another tank setup and I dont know what to try to
treat the 125 with as it has ALOT of invertabrates in it that I dont want
to
kill with copper. I cant stand to see the tang kill a fish I paid 60 bux
for(butterfly fish=aptasia eating machine )All ideas are gladly
welcome.
I am going to do anothert water change tonight to see if that helps
anymore
along with a water test.
Thanks
William