Clown Tang not eating

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jmcleod

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I bought a clown tang about 2 weeks ago - great looking fish - but it doesn't seem to be eating. The other fish in the tank are 2 percula clowns, 1 purple tang and 1 watchman goby. Diet is frozen shrimp and squid with either dried algae/seaweed or live algae from my refugium. The clown tang is the only one not eating. Any thoughts?

Jon
 

FloridaBoy

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What was it eating at the LFS? See if your LFS will take it back,
(some will, some won't) watch it there for a while and see if it starts to eat. Please invest in a QT and use it religiously... essential for your long term success.
 

wayne

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Sure the purple isn't hassling it? These things don't have a great success rate you know, and that's maybe just as well as when it settled into your tank will likely become an unholy terror. Reasonably high chance cyanide caught as well
 

jmcleod

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FB,
Yeah - I know I need a QT tank - havane't figured out where to put it yet (unless I can use the refugium as a QT)

Wayne,
The two tangs seem to mind each others business and when feeding time comes around, the purple tang doesn't get it anyones way.

Also - I am unfamiliar with cyanide - other than using it for rat poison. Can you give me a little more info?

Thanks,

Jon
 

FloridaBoy

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Great question my friend...
Cyanide, also bleach, other poisons have been a scourge for many years in the collection of marine tropicals; some areas are notorious for it; (some Phillipines, Indonesian areas) the collector will disburse it near a coral head using a dish detergent squeeze bottle; fish which are hard to catch to the untrained in net methods are now stunned and easily plucked from the coral. Some receive too much and never recover, only to fall between the crevices and corals and dissappear. Many do not die right away from these poisons but are lost in transit; others will live for a while, but suffer from internal damage and slowly waste away in consumer's tanks. Plenty of info here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marcoll.htm
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/frtloss.htm
http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/LRF/7/LRF7-08.htm
 

jmcleod

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Thanks for the info and the links! I'll check them out tonight (after recharging the freon in the chiller...).

Jon
 

jmcleod

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Feb 28, 2005
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Update:
Clown tang is MIA - presumed dead. Can't find it anywhere. My guess is the 30-40 crabs are chowing down deep in the live rock on tang carcass right now. I should probably make the LFS hold the fish for a week or two before I pick them up...

Jon
 
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