rossco Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 A while ago we tried a yellow tang in our tank. Went around our very young tank cleaning up all the algae it could find and thrived the first couple of weeks. Then it started to reduce its eating until it stopped completely. And then....yup, toes up in the bottom of the tank one morning. After a suitable grieving period I decided to investigate further and did a wee autopsy and found its stomach relatively full with a HUGE (compared to the size of the tang) hair ball. Picture attached. The picture is after extraction of hair ball and it being rinsed in water! Lesson - keep our hands/arms and anything else out of the tank that could introduce hair/fur/stuff that fish like tangs could mistake for hair algae! Looking back, during rock/coral rearranging I used to regularly wipe my arms with a towel. Obviously (now) a great way to introduce hair (human and cat/dog/carpet) on wet arms. :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappers Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 that's amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostface Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 didnt someone else have this problem a little while ago? did autopsy etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slappers Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 yes it was rossco :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanksman Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 Thanks for that info - that is bad luck waiting to happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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