Copper banded butterfly-Should I?? - Page 3

stephane · #21 12-14-2002, 06:55 PM

If you have see him eat in your tank I realy doubt about a sick fish cause fish dont heat like this before to dye of a sickness or aclimatation problem

I would blame more on the tang

Canadian Man · #22 12-14-2002, 07:48 PM

Could have been,
I wasnt home to see what was going on??? :?

MitchM · #23 12-14-2002, 09:15 PM

I would guess the tang also, but it is just a guess at this point, of course.
I recently put my hippo tang back into my main tank, after a stay in the hospital tank, and my Kole tang immediately started to beat the living daylights out out of him!

I placed a sheet of eggcrate in the tank to separate them, and after 3 days separated, they are now getting along fine. That's in a 204 gallon. Tangs can be very aggressive, and I've even seen a purple tang repeatedly stab an already dead fish. :shock:

The more I learn about fish, the more I'm convinced that the bigger a tank is, the better. Instead of buying a $300 fish, I would rather put that money into a bigger tank. The results of stress caused by a smaller tank is too unpredictable.

Now I want a bigger tank!

( honey..........)

Mitch

Canadian Man · #24 12-14-2002, 10:27 PM

Done!
I see a 250ish gallon in my future built into the basement wall with it's own equipment room behind that will also be a fish room.
ENMAX Here comes my money!
Soon

Yea I gotta agree with you Mitch. When I had my scopas tang and my yellow tang in my 90 it took alot of work to get them to get along but once they did they were buddies.
Oh well. Bigger tank=more fish=not now

EmilyB · #25 12-14-2002, 10:41 PM

Sorry for your loss Jon.

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Originally Posted by Canadian Man

I couldnt imagine purchasing a $300 fish and having this happen.

That reminded me of a story.......sometimes fish are expensive because of their hardiness. Take the Chevron tang for example - remember that resounding splat............? :shock:

Of course the beauty of the juvenile Chevron, and it's hardiness both enter into the price. And of course, it only makes sense that I bought a Chevron weeks from adulthood so it could loose all those markings and just look boring.......