Advice for keeping tangs

[Charlie Denmark]

Hi there.

I have a tank, a room divider witch is 150x60x60 cm =540 liters, aprox 142 gallons.

I'm lovning Tangs and would like to have some of them in the tank.

I Was thinking about 1 yellow. 1 olive/orangeshoulder. 1 Lieutenant tang.

Would That be a "Kill" ? I know that, i mabey have to catch one of them lager if Them get to Big.

My Stock in the tank now is very light.
1 Fisher's Dwarf angle.
1 red scooterblenny.
1yellow wrasser.
1 pair of sandshifters.

It is a very open tank whit lot of open water in one end and lots of crannyes and caves in the other end. Its a mixed lps/sps tank.


I would LOVE a blue tang and a clown tang, but i recon they are to agrassive????

Please give me some advice here.

Greetings from Denmark. And i do apologize for my pure/bad spejling.

 

[saltyphish]

bump

 

[Marty.h]

I have tangs I presently have

Yellow tang
Sailfin tang
Jewel tang
Yellow eye tang

All get along really well and swim and feed together there was a bit of nudging between the yellow and sailfin but they now happy together.

Before I had a velvet wipeout I had

Yellow tang
Regal tang
Chevron tang
Pale blue tang

I found the blue to be agressive and even beat a blenny up when I added it so if thinking of a blue possibly make it your last edition. They also seem more prone to whitespot and illness as my velvet issue started with the pale blue and spread fast.

 

[Lynn52]

I have a tomini, powder brown and a naso. In a 6 foot tank. All were quarantined prior to adding to the tank. The tomini was first. The other two were quarantined for 10 weeks (powder brown had a bad case of ich that had to be cured) together then added together. All are in the 2-2.5 inch size range and so far seem to get along fine.

 

[dnyceli]

Lynn52- what did you use to cure the Ich on the powder brown?

 

[Lynn52]

Hypo salinity for 6 weeks from the last time I saw spots. Then brought up over 2 weeks. Observed another 2 weeks.

 

[dnyceli]

Did you gradually lower the salinity or just did like a fresh water dip?

 

[Lynn52]

Gradually lowered over a few days to 1.009. Can't let it go any higher. Frequent fresh water top offs and checked with refractometer daily. I also checked the calibration on my refractometer every few days. My QT is a cycled tank so I didn't have to worry about water quality too much.

 

[Charlie Denmark]

Yep.

I did by a orangeshoulder Tang to day.... Its eating both frost and flakes...yes
Heres the little new one.... Its about 4-5" long...
I do have a Fisher's Dwarf angle AS the only other "Big" fish.... It really Got mad when I introduced the Tang....
The mirror did take its attention While the Tang did get costemised to its new home