So I had the two tanks running... the 55 reef and the 58 reef. Well, the 55 reef was bought from some lady who "Lost interest" and let the fish degrade terribly. So when I sold the 55 reef, after cherry picking the corals out for the 58, I didn't sell the yellow tang with it, because it was in such poor shape. (This was night before last) Instead I threw it in my 58 for temporary residence until its fins grew back. WHAT A MISTAKE!!! This fish turned out to be so agressive I couldn't even get near it. It tried to spike everything in sight, including corals. It terrorized my poor little 5 line wrasse, and the blenny went into hiding so deep I thought it was dead until I saw its tail move today down in the rockwork. So last night, I saw my six line down in the rocks, hiding out. Perfectly fine, a little tattered on the fins, but no real signs of damage. Then this morning, I woke up, went to check the tank, and found... my six line wrasse. Dead. Spiked through the face. And there's no doubt it was the yellow tang... it was obviously damaged from tang not predator, and I haven't had any mantis shrimp in over a year. And the tank is fine, all parameters just running great, no inverts in distress, everything normal but the dead fish. (it was so freshly killed its eyes weren't even glazed, I think the lights coming on might have been a point in it happening, cuz the wrasse would often dart around when the lights kicked on, maybe it darted by the tang and got nailed)
So the tang is on time out in the sump, I'm going to email the guy who bought the 55 and offer it to him first, then if he don't want it, take it to the LFS and have Ryan throw it in his gigantic sump.
As a tail note to this... I have around 2lbs of gracilaria in my 58, green ulva, and a few other macros, and I kept nori and purple sea veggies clipped in there too. There was no lack of appropriate food for this dang tang. This was just the freakiest thing... I can tell you, I like tangs, but this really turned me off on yellow tangs. That six line had survived so much!!! To be killed by a sea cow! What an ignominous ending! Then again, many the buffalo tangled its horns in a would be hunter. But the 6 Line was no danger to that hurkin big yellow guy. GRRR.
So the tang is on time out in the sump, I'm going to email the guy who bought the 55 and offer it to him first, then if he don't want it, take it to the LFS and have Ryan throw it in his gigantic sump.
As a tail note to this... I have around 2lbs of gracilaria in my 58, green ulva, and a few other macros, and I kept nori and purple sea veggies clipped in there too. There was no lack of appropriate food for this dang tang. This was just the freakiest thing... I can tell you, I like tangs, but this really turned me off on yellow tangs. That six line had survived so much!!! To be killed by a sea cow! What an ignominous ending! Then again, many the buffalo tangled its horns in a would be hunter. But the 6 Line was no danger to that hurkin big yellow guy. GRRR.