New fish added within 24 hours

[Smswan]

I added 3 tangs yesterday around 2pm and today around 330 I noticed they are struggling to stay off the bottom.
I checked nitrate and phosphate are in range. I did adjust the salinity from ~26 to ~25.5 and added 6ml of NO3.
I just did a water change replacing 10gal and one of the tangs is rebounding.

Any suggestions?

 

[Old Fritz]

Did you test ammonia?

Adding three tangs immediately will more than likely give an ammonia spike which the water change would help.

How big of a tank are they in and are there any other fish

 

[sfin52]

How old is the tank. What's the ammonia

 

[sfin52]

Welcome to reef2reef sorry it's under these circumstances.

 

[Chewbacca]

I added 3 tangs yesterday around 2pm and today around 330 I noticed they are struggling to stay off the bottom.
I checked nitrate and phosphate are in range. I did adjust the salinity from ~26 to ~25.5 and added 6ml of NO3.
I just did a water change replacing 10gal and one of the tangs is rebounding.

Any suggestions?

And no quarantine or protective dose right

 

[Smswan]

Did you test ammonia?

Adding three tangs immediately will more than likely give an ammonia spike which the water change would help.

How big of a tank are they in and are there any other fish

Testing now, current reading 0ppm. 75 gal and one cardinal.

 

[Smswan]

How old is the tank. What's the ammonia

Roughly a year. Current reading 0ppm

 

[Smswan]

And no quarantine or protective dose right

No quarantine. What is protective dose?

 

[Chewbacca]

Couple drops of ick treatment in QT tank or acclamation process tangs a a tricky breed to work with

 

[BayouReefer]

What salinity were they in at the place you got them from? Are there any corals in your tank? What equipment are you running skimmer, refuge, do you have a carbon media in the tank?

 

[Smswan]

I did a quick 10gal water change and the yellow tang is swimming sluggishly but moving. The other two, blue tang and another yellow tang, they are trying but little improvement

 

[Chewbacca]

Sorry I don’t mean to sound short or to the point. But I hate the long round and round 4 W’s. Who what where why ok. Whatever. 5

 

[Smswan]

What salinity were they in at the place you got them from? Are there any corals in your tank? What equipment are you running skimmer, refuge, do you have a carbon media in the tank?

25-26. Yes, mushrooms, torch, acans. Fluval460. Yes.

 

[Smswan]

Direct is good.

Sorry I don’t mean to sound short or to the point. But I hate the long round and round 4 W’s. Who what where why ok. Whatever. 5

Direct is good. Fish are dying. Need fix now. Thanks

 

[Smswan]

Testing now, current reading 0ppm. 75 gal and one cardinal.

Ammonia reading now is .25.

 

[Jon Fishman]

How big are they? 3 Tangs in a 75 is gonna be a huge struggle to keep the tank clean!

 

[Musovski]

Did you acclimate properly? Are there any signs of ich? Black ich?
Not tang police type stuff but Keep in mind that a 75g is quite small for a tang, let alone 3 tangs.
How were they acting from the place you bought them at? Nitrate level? Have you tried a small feeding of seaweed?

 

[Smswan]

How big are they? 3 Tangs in a 75 is gonna be a huge struggle to keep the tank clean!

Yellows ~3”
Blue 2”

 

[Smswan]

Ye

Did you acclimate properly? Are there any signs of ich? Black ich?
Not tang police type stuff but Keep in mind that a 75g is quite small for a tang, let alone 3 tangs.
How were they acting from the place you bought them at? Nitrate level? Have you tried a small feeding of seaweed?

yes. No. No. Good at store. Nitrate low. Yes.

 

[Old Fritz]

Could be they just didn't acclimate that well. I've noticed with some tangs they kinda just chill out near the bottom for a day. Was there a big salinity difference do you know?