Hippo Tang has died
 

My hippo tang has passed away tonight. I have had her for over 16 years. She will be greatly missed. RIP.

16? Incredible! Sorry for your loss.

that's one long lived tang. she is in a better place now. sorry for your loss.

I'm sure there are folks who don't understand your loss but we do. Our condolences.

I had an 11 year old Yellow Watchman Goby that had passed away recently. I haven't replaced him because it just won't be the same.

AquaAddict

Sorry to hear. I feel your loss.
We lost our most favorite fish recently due to my failure to detect a disease.
I put some fish through QT but missed it. Put the fish in our DT and the main guys started dropping like flies.

It was heart-breaking to watch our buddy do the herky-jerky death gasping thing. Then the total still-ness after. All the time I'm telling him to 'breathe dude, breathe"

Something I'll never be able to forget :sad:
I'm not generally over emotional, but it's given me some nightmares about tank leaks and such

I think it was old age. My Purple Tang died 6 months ago and she was at least 20 years old.

I still have a yellow tang and 2 Ocellaris clowns I got back in the mid to late 90's.

I haven't added fish to this tank in a long time so it wasn't disease.

I have been through a couple of dogs during the life of these fish.

Sorry for your loss. Your Tang sure had a great life though - wow!

I feel your pain, my hippo died this summer and was the same age as yours. Had it since I started in the hobby, only reason it died is because it jumped out of the temporary tank while I moved the main tank