Tang?

mx51 · 02/02/2015, 09:34 PM

I have a mimic lemon peel tang she keeps going to the surface of the water and blowing air out of her guilds is something I should be concerned about? I have a pair of clowns purple fire fish, fire fish and a pink spotted watch man goby and none of them are doing it.
Thank you for any help.......

Fiveinfive · 02/02/2015, 11:08 PM

Hi. Please post water parameters. What did you do last?

whosurcaddie · 02/03/2015, 07:31 AM

Ive never heard of this.. maybe low dissolved oxygen levels??

whosurcaddie · 02/03/2015, 07:42 AM

I just read that this is normal behavior for foxface and rabbit fish. Maybe he picked up the habit when he was in the same display tank with one. How long have you had this fish?

ReefsandGeeks · 02/03/2015, 11:21 AM

My foxface does this all the time. I always assumed he was trying to get residual foating food bits along the edges of the glass water line. None of my other fish have done this though. If he seems to be acting normal otherwise I wouldn't worry as long as your other fish are fine. My foxface will do it for a while, 20-30 minutes. sometimes more sometimes less. then he will stop and do normal fish stuff.

fishchef · 02/03/2015, 11:56 AM

My Fox does feed around the top edges of the tank. Never noticed spitting air/water, but he is noisy. My big Purple Tang does the same thing or at least sounds like it.

R6_boogieman · 02/03/2015, 12:09 PM

my blue hippo does the same but its my fault. there was a time i fed them dry palets so some palets would float up on top and the tang was the only dumb one to go up there and try to get them. now that i feed them brine, she thinks palets are still floating up there -_- lol

mx51 · 02/03/2015, 09:15 PM

Thank you for the replays. Salinity is 1.025, ph 8.19,ammonia nitrate and nitrite 0, phosphate 0, calcium 450, magnesium 1410, kh/alk 8.5.
She doesn't do it all the time and I never seen her do it around feeding time and we only had her for 1 week....

02/02/2015, 09:34 PM	#1
mx51 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Great Falls,MT Posts: 344	Tang? I have a mimic lemon peel tang she keeps going to the surface of the water and blowing air out of her guilds is something I should be concerned about? I have a pair of clowns purple fire fish, fire fish and a pink spotted watch man goby and none of them are doing it. Thank you for any help.......

02/02/2015, 11:08 PM	#2
Fiveinfive Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 16	Hi. Please post water parameters. What did you do last?

02/03/2015, 07:31 AM	#3
whosurcaddie Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,354	Ive never heard of this.. maybe low dissolved oxygen levels??

02/03/2015, 07:42 AM	#4
whosurcaddie Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,354	I just read that this is normal behavior for foxface and rabbit fish. Maybe he picked up the habit when he was in the same display tank with one. How long have you had this fish?

02/03/2015, 11:21 AM	#5
ReefsandGeeks Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 1,708	My foxface does this all the time. I always assumed he was trying to get residual foating food bits along the edges of the glass water line. None of my other fish have done this though. If he seems to be acting normal otherwise I wouldn't worry as long as your other fish are fine. My foxface will do it for a while, 20-30 minutes. sometimes more sometimes less. then he will stop and do normal fish stuff.

02/03/2015, 11:56 AM	#6
fishchef Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 1,222	My Fox does feed around the top edges of the tank. Never noticed spitting air/water, but he is noisy. My big Purple Tang does the same thing or at least sounds like it.

02/03/2015, 12:09 PM	#7
R6_boogieman Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Dallas Tx Posts: 82	my blue hippo does the same but its my fault. there was a time i fed them dry palets so some palets would float up on top and the tang was the only dumb one to go up there and try to get them. now that i feed them brine, she thinks palets are still floating up there -_- lol

02/03/2015, 09:15 PM	#8
mx51 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Great Falls,MT Posts: 344	Thank you for the replays. Salinity is 1.025, ph 8.19,ammonia nitrate and nitrite 0, phosphate 0, calcium 450, magnesium 1410, kh/alk 8.5. She doesn't do it all the time and I never seen her do it around feeding time and we only had her for 1 week....