Best tang to get?

[SOARnTACO]

Thinking on getting one more fish. Don’t want to over stock though. Wish I could fit them all. Thinking a achilles tang, powder blue, hippo tang, or blonde naso tang. Or maybe blue throat trigger.

Is there a better fish in that list for my current stock?

I have a 125 gallon reef tank. With a fluval FX6 and hob 1000 octopus protein skimmer
And a 55gallon qt

Current stock
2 clowns hosting in rbta
Royal gramma
Tail spotted blenney
Flame angle
Red dragonet
Fox face
Green wrasse
Juvenile harlequin tusk
Diamond goby
2 cleaner shrimp

 

[4FordFamily]

IMO a powder blue is pushing it, a naso will definitely outgrow the tank, and a hippo will too eventually. Start small and you may be OK, Id avoid a PBT and opt for a smaller acanthurus tang such as a convict tang or maybe a chocolate tang. Their max size isn’t much smaller than a powder blue but they’re slightly slower growing and IMO not quite as needy on real estate, while being hardier. Nearly any zebrasoma tang would be a good choice, aside from sailfins long-term. I also suggest a white tail bristlooth tang for consideration!

 

[OrionN]

PBT is one beautiful fish, one of the best looking tang IMO, but they exploded in growth. Mine go from 2.5 inches to 5+ inches in 11 months in a 65 gal tank. He was emaciated and sick, only lightly larger than a Flame angel on 4/22/2018 and is 5+ healthy PBT at this time. I moved him from my 65 DT to my 320 DT about 3 weeks ago.

Video of my 65 gal tank. You see that the PBT was barely larger than my medium male Flame angel

Picture of my emaciated PBT on 4/22/2018

Picture of him today pushing 6 inches

 

[Jesterrace]

For a 125 gallon one of the mimic tangs would be my first choice. PBTs get pretty aggressive as well.

 

[Abdullah Al Faruq]

What about a kole tang?

 

[OrionN]

For a 125 gallon one of the mimic tangs would be my first choice. PBTs get pretty aggressive as well.

I had a Mimic tang in my 420 gal. I have to re-home him because he keep on pacing the 8 foot tank, back and fore the whole day. It was a pain watching him pace, and he was not a particularly beautiful fish as an adult. Was a bright beautiful yellow Juvenile but a dull yellow brown with dark face as an adult.

 

[A sea K]

Chocolate or Mimic tang (A pyroferus) would be my suggestion as well. Probably my favorite tang and unlike OrionN I really appreciate the subtle beauty they bring with their subdued coloration.

 

[ca1ore]

None of the tangs listed in the OP would be particularly good choices for a 125. Agree that zebras other than the sailfins could work, as would something like a tomini or a kole.

 

[Jesterrace]

I had a Mimic tang in my 420 gal. I have to re-home him because he keep on pacing the 8 foot tank, back and fore the whole day. It was a pain watching him pace, and he was not a particularly beautiful fish as an adult. Was a bright beautiful yellow Juvenile but a dull yellow brown with dark face as an adult.

Depends on which Mimic Tang you go with. There are the Half Black and Eibli varieties as well. Did you get him as a larger juvie?

 

[Jesterrace]

None of the tangs listed in the OP would be particularly good choices for a 125. Agree that zebras other than the sailfins could work, as would something like a tomini or a kole.

Zebrasoma tend to be more aggressive though (other than maybe the Scopas).

 

[Hemmdog]

Do the blue throat trigger. So much personality.

 

[Whisperer]

For me a yellow tang gives a tank an appeal. Even enhances the color contrast of other inhabitants like flame angel, etc.

 

[dylana407]

PBT. It eats like a pig. I only feed it pellets once a day and still, it's chubby. The rest of the time it eats nori or whatever it finds on the rocks.

 

[OrionN]

Depends on which Mimic Tang you go with. There are the Half Black and Eibli varieties as well. Did you get him as a larger juvie?

I got the yellow one. When he was just about 1.5-2 inches. Grew very quickly to 6 inches plus. When he start to have trailers he just pace all day long.

 

[RazorD]

I’m a huge fame of the whitetail bristletooth, personally. If not, and I had your tank, I’d look towards a yellow or purple.

 

[Thaxxx]

I would avoid a tang all together. Too spastic and disease prone.

 

[OrionN]

Get a Powder Blue and Yellow tangs