bite out of yellow tang

[125g]

my yellow tang has a pretty big bite out of it and i want to know who the culprits is. It is either the puffer or my eel can you tell from this picture who may have done this?

 

[jill]

what kind of puffer? just curious.

 

[125g]

what kind of puffer? just curious.

porcupine puffer

 

[balogh03]

Now what kind of eel? I am leaning more towards eel just because puffers normally have more of a flat bite and not so arced....

Good luck.

-augustus

PS. check out LEE's diet and food sticky. Most eels won't take bites out of a tang unless they are really hungry.

 

[125g]

Now what kind of eel? I am leaning more towards eel just because puffers normally have more of a flat bite and not so arced....

Good luck.

-augustus

PS. check out LEE's diet and food sticky. Most eels won't take bites out of a tang unless they are really hungry.

its a snowflake eel and he has been pretty aggressive lately because of lack of food i haven't seen him eat since he's been in the new tank and he has been going after the fish when he never did before. But I cant get him to eat... in the old tank i could throw endless amounts of krill in and he'd find the all one after another and eat everything now a piece will fall by his face and he just sits there and i have even tried a feeding with a stick? any suggestions to get him to eat

 

[tcblightning]

I'm not sure about the bite...I had a snowflake a few years back and he ate fine for a year. One day I didn't see him...which continued for abou 6 months. Oneday he appeared and I saw him everyday for 3 months but he wuldn't eat. Finally after 9 months he started eating again. They are apparently notorious for this.

 

[balogh03]

its a snowflake eel and he has been pretty aggressive lately because of lack of food i haven't seen him eat since he's been in the new tank and he has been going after the fish when he never did before. But I cant get him to eat... in the old tank i could throw endless amounts of krill in and he'd find the all one after another and eat everything now a piece will fall by his face and he just sits there and i have even tried a feeding with a stick? any suggestions to get him to eat

I would diffidently offer more than just krill. Try clams, shrimp, scallops, squid, silversides... Just like you and me, they really need a staple diet to be healthy.

-augustus

 

[addocdreefer]

maybe try something live like a feeder black molly ... it maybe too tempting to resist even with a poor appetite.

 

[leebca]

Back to the original post. . .I don't what specific bites out of fishes look like, compared to the fish doing the biting. It isn't a tare and it isn't fin rot. It is definitely something that took a bite out of the fish or, in an attempt to 'hit' the fish, got fin instead of fish.

 

[tcblightning]

Back to the original post. . .I don't what specific bites out of fishes look like, compared to the fish doing the biting. It isn't a tare and it isn't fin rot. It is definitely something that took a bite out of the fish or, in an attempt to 'hit' the fish, got fin instead of fish.

I think that goes without saying...

 

[leebca]

Thank you for being so observant, tcblightning.

The point is that it is a predatory bite. This is not something that a Puffer will do to that size of fish. The only likely predatory fish in the given list is the eel.

 

[dviper150]

I have seen 2 yellow tangs, one at my friends house and one at a dr's office. Both tanks had a porcupine puffer in it and only my friends tank had an eel in it which was a wolf eel. I noticed that both of tangs had good chunks of fin bitten off from the them and the only common culprit I found was the porcupine puffer in both tanks. I am not saying that your porcupine did it for sure but this is what I observed from the 2 different tanks and if I had to guess, i would say it was your porcupine puffer that did that.