Yellow tang dying

[qhduong]

1 year old tank. The tang is my 3rd fish about 1 year old from Biota. I don't see it getting bullied and was eating and healthy yesterday. Today I saw him swimming vertically and not swimming alright. Ammonia is 0,nitrate 3,Phosphate 0.06. No salinity or temp swing noticed. All other fish are healthy. I did a freshwater dip and moved it to my sump. I moved chaeto out from last photo. He's on the bottom breathing now. What could be wrong?

 

[qhduong]

He's in the bottom corner of sump now, breathing but not moving. What else can I do?

 

[qhduong]

@Humblefish does it look like diseases? I have not added any new fish other than a wrasse that I QT'd with API general cure a week ago.

@ReefSquad

 

[HB AL]

Looks like some possible malnutrition although it could be from whatever is wrong with it. 1st thing I would do is get it to eat, as long as its eating it has a good chance of bouncing back. Also if your other fish are fine and not picking on it I would put it back in the dt as long as its eating.

 

[qhduong]

Looks like some possible malnutrition although it could be from whatever is wrong with it. 1st thing I would do is get it to eat, as long as its eating it has a good chance of bouncing back. Also if your other fish are fine and not picking on it I would put it back in the dt as long as its eating.

It's always eating a lot, always chasing food. I feed 3 times a day. It was floating sideways and stuck to my MP40 sides so I moved it to the sump.

 

[40g Nano]

@Humblefish does it look like diseases? I have not added any new fish other than a wrasse that I QT'd with API general cure a week ago.

@ReefSquad

Humblefish isn’t on this forum anymore

@Jay Hemdal

 

[PanchoG]

I would suggest to turn off the sump lights, keep feeding and leave him alone. Moving him around will increase the stress.

 

[qhduong]

I would suggest to turn off the sump lights, keep feeding and leave him alone. Moving him around will increase the stress.

Ok, my sump is always dark until night time, I closed the cabinet doors so it's pretty dark there now.

 

[HB AL]

It's always eating a lot, always chasing food. I feed 3 times a day. It was floating sideways and stuck to my MP40 sides so I moved it to the sump.

Well that doesn't sound good if its eating. Just keep feeding it and hope it recovers. As long as its eating it has a chance albeit small.

 

[qhduong]

Well that doesn't sound good if its eating. Just keep feeding it and hope it recovers. As long as its eating it has a chance albeit small.

Thanks... I guess all I can do now is wait and pray? I will try feeding the sump so he can get some food, but he's not swimming so I don't think he will eat... He seemed fine this morning (4 hours ago) and last night (18 hours ago).

 

[vetteguy53081]

very high vitamin deficiency, fish is thin and signs of aggression. I can give you a few suggestions for diet, isolation, etc but I honestly fear this fish will not make it into the evening. I assume it breathing rapidly ?
Was it eating and what were you feeding?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Tail fin looks a little nipped at. Is he thin?
D

 

[qhduong]

very high vitamin deficiency, fish is thin and signs of aggression. I can give you a few suggestions for diet, isolation, etc but I honestly fear this fish will not make it into the evening. I assume it breathing rapidly ?
Was it eating and what were you feeding?

Now that I've taken him out, he is a bit thin I agree, but he's always first to eat any food I feed. I feed 1 cube frozen, and 2, sometime 3 round of pellets (TDO chromaboost and Hikari Marine S).

 

[vetteguy53081]

Now that I've taken him out, he is a bit thin I agree, but he's always first to eat any food I feed. I feed 1 cube frozen, and 2, sometime 3 round of pellets (TDO chromaboost and Hikari Marine S).

Not an adequate diet unfortunately. These fish are herbivores and at minimum, you want to feed them:
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine

Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health

 

[DaneGer21]

Nori? Mysis? Flakes? Fresh seafood?

I would step up the nutritional diversity

 

[qhduong]

Not an adequate diet unfortunately. These fish are herbivores and at minimum, you want to feed them:
-Spirulina brine shrimp
- LRS Herbivore diet
- mysis shrimp
- small plankton
- Nori seaweed basted with garlic extract
- Hikari Marine cuisine
- Formula 2 flake and frozen
- Hikari veggie marine

Add selcon vitamins to the foods 2-3X per week and on alternating days, garlic extract for stamina and immunity health

Sad to report he's dead now :'(. Garlic extract like garlic powder for cooking?

 

[qhduong]

Nori? Mysis? Flakes? Fresh seafood?

I would step up the nutritional diversity

I feed nori but he never eats them. Frozen and selcon soaked dried mysis.

 

[DaneGer21]

Have you tried all 3 colors from omega one? I know some of my tangs prefer one to the other

Just trying to help

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sad to report he's dead now :'(. Garlic extract like garlic powder for cooking?

 

[qhduong]

Have you tried all 3 colors from omega one? I know some of my tangs prefer one to the other

Just trying to help

Hm I have only tried the green kind, and red ogo. I'll try the other you mentioned. But I also want to rule out anything else other than nutrition.