A sad day...

[MIKE NY]

Well my 15 year old + Powder Blue tang passed away during the night. I got it back in the late 90's as a LFS rescue and took about six months to get it looking fat and healthy. If it wasn't such a beautiful fish I probably would have gotten rid of it years ago because it was such a PITA with any new fish. I would have to capture it and then re-introduce it a week later so it was the newbie and even then I still couldn't keep another tang because in a few days it would attack it anyway. It never grew bigger than 6" so I'm assuming it was a male because males stay smaller than females. I recently took it out with the additions of my Angels and butterfly and was doing great in my fuge feasting on macros all day. I re- introduced it yesterday and it looked fine, but staying in the rocks which was normal the first few days back. I guess the stress was to much for the old man and passed away during the night. The good news is I can keep any tang now...

 

[bigsink]

Sorry to hear this Mike. Room for more angels now.

 

[mrdobie]

sorry for your loss

 

[Kworker]

Sorry to hear about it. I love my powder blue tang despite its aggressive personality. I only keep it with two bluegreen chromis. Acanthurus tangs in general are just great fish.

Give the whitecheek a look if you are going to look to pick up another from the genus. Mimics are underrated too.

 

[STORM]

Sorry for your loss!!

 

[MikeC]

That sucks Mike,but dame 15 years in your tank is not such a bad life.
I know he was well taken care of.

Sorry for the loss but
Congrats on your success

 

[TUSI]

Sorry to hear that Mike. I just went through same thing with my flame wrasse he was old and passed away two weeks ago. It sucks when these thing happen

 

[oh207]

Sorry for your loss.

 

[MIKE NY]

Thanks guys...I found one of my old logs and saw that I had one prior to this one that didn't live too long so this fish really surprised me living that long going through a lot like being moved from tank to tank and Sandy etc..when the other so called easier fish didn't.

Sorry to hear Joe ... Flames are a beautiful fish

 

[cono]

just seen your post really sorry for your loss ...but 15 years he had a great life

 

[Mark...]

Great job on keeping him all those years.

 

[Lenny718]

Sucks man. At least he had a long life, much longer then most powder blues do in captivity.

 

[samksy]

He lived a good life, I hope my fish can make it to ten.

 

[piranhapat]

Mike, Be proud that's a long time. That's 3/4 time on our old job.. sorry for your loss...

 

[MIKE NY]

3/4... LOL. Thanks guys... If it wasn't such an overly aggressive fish and I was able to just leave it alone without taking it out with any new addition it would probably have lasted a few more years....

 

[OUT TO SEA]

Sorry to hear about this Mike. You gave him a good life.

 

[MIKE NY]

Thanks John .... still looking for a Richmonds ... Very hard fish to find locally

 

[MIKE NY]

Thanks but the good news is now I'm able to add fish that I couldn't because the PBT was so aggressive

 

[robert0419]

sorry to hear