help.. 2nd naso tang dead

I will never purchase items or step foot in such chain stores regardless if one store is better. I will never condone the behavior. It disturbs me when I witnessed employees taking dead animals out of cages and aquariums.
Yes acknowledged, no one knows everything about the ocean, science is proving that. I hope some employees are flipping through advanced books than simplicity to gain knowledge. They put Naso Lituratus in tiny aquariums and call them holding tanks. A good store would not do this. I rather pay the extra for my fish.
 
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They could be QT the fish? Also you must remember that stores are trying to provide the customer with cheaper prices if they increased the size of the aquariums to say 6ft or so, the price would also dramatically increase. Other than that, the fish being kept in small tanks is nothing when you compare that to how they are shippedto the US from places like indonesia, tanks like 4ft with 80 or so chromis in it. I would primarily worry more about how the fish have been shipped rather than the "holding tanks" at the store.
 
The Petco located near me has more than one fish in a ten gallon, Tangs included. Most of the fish are stuck to the filters. Rodents and birds were being thrown away and a lot of them had no food our water. I had a friend that worked for the store back when we were teens, she was so disturbed she found another job. She has a salt aquarium now but she admits she knew nothing about the animals back when she worked for the store.

Shipping fish is bad, and more. A lot of them die. Just the thought of it makes me want to give up the hobby. That’s why I take good care of my fish. If science needs them in a few years I will be more than happy to give them up. If I keep writing it will get too deep but if you would like to go there we can. Just remember Mysis that I like you if you do.
 
Jessie did you say you raised Naso tangs? hmmm ok nways...umm In my experience with Nasos the juveniles are much harder to aclimate than adults. And adults require Large tanks so I agree with the previous posts.
 
Agree, the PB can also be a nasty customer and could be killing or overstressing the invading Nasos which would compete for its food source. Strange but true; I had a taste of Naso Lituratus a few months ago on the dive boat in Palau... the local dive guides had brought some grilled ones on board for lunch and offered it to me. Quite good actually... when I told them what these sell for in the trade, they all had a good laugh.
 
Yes other possibilities, but i think ultimately it would have died anyway, either from the oxygen lvls or the overcrowding of a 40 gallon.
 
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