Purple tang

[kevanB]

just bought my first and last fish on line.
Purple tang arrived Tuesday lunch time and looked healthy.
Did hour of aclimation temp and water.
Okay and feeding on mysis
Dead on Thursday,looked in tank and unable to see was done the back dead.
I have never had any problems with fish before

 

[Daniel Waters]

just bought my first and last fish on line.
Purple tang arrived Tuesday lunch time and looked healthy.
Did hour of aclimation temp and water.
Okay and feeding on mysis
Dead on Thursday,looked in tank and unable to see was done the back dead.
I have never had any problems with fish before

Sorry for your loss. You didn't ask a question, so I'm not sure if you're just venting or wanting possible explanations. If you want possible explanations, it will be hard to say without more details such as your tank size, parameters, other livestock. Sometimes fish just don't do well with stress of being transported, which is one of many reasons to do a quarantine procedure. This can allow the fish time to adjust without being stressed from other established tank mates. What other fish do you have in your tank?

You said the fish died on Thursday? Was this last week all this happened then?

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

just bought my first and last fish on line.
Purple tang arrived Tuesday lunch time and looked healthy.
Did hour of aclimation temp and water.
Okay and feeding on mysis
Dead on Thursday,looked in tank and unable to see was done the back dead.
I have never had any problems with fish before

Was he in a QT tank? Was he in a DT with other fish? Do you have any pics of him after he passed? Unfortunately disease (ich,velvet,flukes) are rampant in marine fish purchased anywhere. If he was introduced into a DT with other healthy fish watch them for signs of illness and be prepared to set up a QT to treat them.

 

[Bryce M.]

How did you acclimate him and what QT was done on him?

 

[landlubber]

no question that ordering online adds a little extra stress to the situation but as you see above there's multiple forms of disease and parasite that can cause quick death in a weak fish. even something as simple as not cutting the lights when introducing to your display is enough to kill.

 

[Bryce M.]

no question that ordering online adds a little extra stress to the situation but as you see above there's multiple forms of disease and parasite that can cause quick death in a weak fish. even something as simple as not cutting the lights when introducing to your display is enough to kill.

Bump

 

[kevanB]

Sorry for your loss. You didn't ask a question, so I'm not sure if you're just venting or wanting possible explanations. If you want possible explanations, it will be hard to say without more details such as your tank size, parameters, other livestock. Sometimes fish just don't do well with stress of being transported, which is one of many reasons to do a quarantine procedure. This can allow the fish time to adjust without being stressed from other established tank mates. What other fish do you have in your tank?

You said the fish died on Thursday? Was this last week all this happened then?

No in No its Thursday

 

[Daniel Waters]

No in No its Thursday

@kevanB, My fault. I just assumed you were in North America or Europe.

What other fish do you have in your tank?

 

[kevanB]

80 us gallon tank
Small sail fin tang
Small marrow clown
Mandarin
By colour blenny
Yellow prawn goby
Acclimated over hour
Put in tank to get temp
Drip water
There was no fighting or agesion
And was picking at mysis
Turned lights off for first couple of hours then when for three hours on low light and blue
Looked happy and was grasing on algae

 

[kevanB]

In New Zealand it’s thursday now

 

[kevanB]

In New Zealand all fish coming into country have month quarantine

 

[Daniel Waters]

Gotcha. Mixing a new purple with an existing sailfin can be tricky, even if the sailfin is smaller. Both are zebrasomas and sailfins can be pretty territorial once established. If I had to guess, the sailfin may have gone after the purple and stressed it to death. This easily could have happened even at lights out, or you may not necessarily have noticed it because the sailfin could have acted up later. I used to have a sailfin tang that I had to remove when I introduced a new angel, and the sailfin wasn't that large either and had shown no aggression up until then. Just a guess, though

 

[User]

In New Zealand all fish coming into country have month quarantine

I know you don’t want to hear this, but that QT is worthless.

All of the incoming fish are added batch to big QT tanks — more like vats— then if they don’t die in 30 days, they are fit for sale. True QT would have fish in very small populations, isolated for 30 days, prophylactically treated for main pathogens, treated with other agents as needed. A typical incoming shipment of fish would need hundreds of isolated tanks, support equipment, medications and 24 hour eyes on care.

Once they are in your possession, they need to be considered potentially diseased and infectious. Only you have the responsibility for making sure your livestock are healthy enough to graduate QT and go into your DT, and the only way to be 100% sure it’s done correctly is for you dobdo it yourself.

There are amazing resources for info on QT here. Look around and learn as much as you can.

Sorry for your loss, and good luck

 

[Bryce M.]

Always QT yourself