I have a 3 inch powder brown tang that just died in my tank. He is in the back of my rock work and I really don't want to take this" puzzle" apart. My tank is a oceanic 120 with a 30 gallon sump. My protein skimmer is an ETSS 60 sump buddy and so far my water parameters are in line. Tomorrow I am doing a 25 gallon water change which should also help keep the water clean. Do I have anything to worrry about if he slowly decays?
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dead tang in my tank
- Thread starter Jon
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how many crabs do you have?Jon said:
Sorry i meant to say what kinda clean up craw do you have and there is no way of getting him out like with a wire or something?
I do not have any crabs. My clean up crew is 6 turbo snails and a whole mess of bristle worms. As I stated earlier I do not want to take all of this rock apart just to get him out and not even a wire would work. Do you think his decaying will throw my water parameters out of whack?
That's what i was thinking.. plus a few in a tank is always goodyoupey said:
reefsandrotts
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The bristle worms will start to eat him,but if you can I would grab some hermits as the others have posted.
One time i was feeding my star and dropped the clam and same kinda thing happened it went behind the rocks.. them crabs cleaned that up within a dayyoupey said:
bristle worms are pretty efficient. Forget the hermits - in my opinion the best scavenger is the nassarius snail. Faster and help to turn the sandbed (if you have one).
At that size tank there should not be any impact to your tank params. The tang is a messy eater and it's death will temp spike ammonia but i don't think it'll be that bad.
Sorry to hear about the loss. PBrownT are beautiful.
At that size tank there should not be any impact to your tank params. The tang is a messy eater and it's death will temp spike ammonia but i don't think it'll be that bad.
Sorry to hear about the loss. PBrownT are beautiful.
I've had fish that size "disappear" overnight in a 90 gallon. Never saw any side effects (except bigger hermit crabs!).
However, if it is a concern, try sticking a piece of rigid air tube down there and "pushing" him out a bit. The power head might work too. Guess it depends on just how far "into the reef" he has gone...
Sorry for your loss..
However, if it is a concern, try sticking a piece of rigid air tube down there and "pushing" him out a bit. The power head might work too. Guess it depends on just how far "into the reef" he has gone...
Sorry for your loss..
