anybody want to come fishing in my house...Dasenji tang has to go

Argg!
I had just lost a clam a couple days ago. The mantle looked mangled and it was shrunken in. When I looked there was a hole in the middle of it. I thought maybe something was eating it or I accidently killed it when treating aiptasia with kalk. I had this clam since I started in SW. It is my first ever clam loss.

Well now my open brain that had been beautiful and gigantic is now sunken in. I had been watching it since it has done this. Tonight I have watched the large dasenji tang pecking at it. Behind it was my rabbit fish. Grrr...

I know that these are reef safe, but we all know the chance of a fish that does not read the "Official Reef Safe Manual" and apparently this one did not. So now I have to figure out how to get him out of my 135g tank. I will like to get both out, but the tang is the worse. I am going to see if I can borrow the fish trap that my LFS has and place the brain in there to see if he will bite. I am afraid that I move the brain he will then go to another coral!

 

can we use dynomite. I feel your pain I have a chromis I want to get out and have not mustered up the energy to net him. good luck

 

I just got a Pacific Blue Tang out of my tank last night. Used a net and the handel of my algae scrapper, scared him out of the rocks and into the corner.

 

You apparently have kept clams longer than I have. Every clam I have owned have all died. Maybe they never liked my 150 MH bulbs or not enough phyto. Clams can suddenly die for no apparent reason. Most likely the clam was already doing bad without you knowing it. I had a 7 inch Squamosa die once. It sucks
Adam

 

Are you feeding them enough? Also most of the time they will eat the dead tissue around the coral which then irritates the coral itself.