dustins first tank. 120 gallon(lots of pics)

[dustin_P74]

[Alexander]

so it was a tilefish or no?

[Bifferwine]

Tilefish are awesome fish, but you really should slow down on stocking. You don't HAVE to get a new fish as soon as two die, especially if they die under suspicious circumstances. You don't know why they died, but I believe you are seeing the consequences of you stocking too quickly in the first place. You have to slow down. You added like 5 big fish within a week in the first place. Now two of them died mysteriously. Slow down or more fish will die. How do you know that the last tang didn't have a disease or something and now any new fish you add will just get the disease and die too? SLOW DOWN.

When any fish dies it's a good idea to wait at least 3 weeks before replacing it to make sure that all of the other remaining fish stay healthy. If it died of a disease or sickness, it's likely that the remaining fish would start showing symptoms in the next 3 weeks too. You want to make sure that's not the case.

[dustin_P74]

its not a tilefish and i know neither of them died from diseases because the lieutenant tang would eat and died from that and stress because he was getting punked out at the LFS and it was my fault for buying it in the first place, as for the orange shoulder that also was not a mysterious death because he was getting picked on by the yellow tang and that caused him to stop eatting which mad him weak and then once he was weak he would hide from the yellow tang and the yellow tang would just sit there and stab him all day to get him to die, the yellow tang is more vicious then the sohal tang. and as for the stocking it was five big fish over the course of a month not a week

[RyanG]

Either way the stocking was too fast. One fish every three weeks is a good safe rule to live by. It lets your biological system catch up to the fish load. Sucks about the fish no matter what killed them though.

[dustin_P74]

um this is really weird because when i ordered my CUC i ordered two emerald crabs and about three weeks ago one of them died, so i assumed there was only one left but right now im sitting here staring at two emerald crabs, so i guess its possible for them to breed in captivity

[Bifferwine]

They didn't breed, the one you thought died just molted. They molt frequently, and it looks like they're dead but it's really just their exoskeleton.

[dustin_P74]

oh, ha i totally forgot about that

[dustin_P74]

here are the pics


its a clown tang

[dustin_P74]

i need you guys to identify this snail



here it is climbing the side of the glass

and i got a general starfish too