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I have 2 tangs in my 50 gallon but when they get 2 big I'll sell them and buy small ones all over again.
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My Foxface takes naps all the time. He'll change color into a blotched pattern and then just go into a trance. At first it was just when I turned on the moon lights. Now its a few times throughout the day.
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My friend kept a 5 year old hippo in a 50 breeder. It never came out but only to eat. then it would go and lay down under rocks on the bottom of the tank. After I saw the behavior of this fish; started talking to her and it took a month but finally convinced her to sell it to someone with a big tank.
I know you are very attached to this fish but remember true love is knowing when to let go so that your lovely fish lives on. Give it to another hobbyist with a big tank in your local area and that way you can always visit and see him.
Hopefully you do what's right for the fish.
Good Luck
I know you are very attached to this fish but remember true love is knowing when to let go so that your lovely fish lives on. Give it to another hobbyist with a big tank in your local area and that way you can always visit and see him.
Hopefully you do what's right for the fish.
Good Luck
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This couldn't be further from the truth.
The VAST majority of these tangs are wild collected. There are a smaller handful which are collected as tiny juvi's and then tank raised (far different from tank bred). To my knowledge, there is no one currently breeding them, let alone in large quantities.
The second statement is illogical. If you put a baby giraffe in a dog run, do you really think it would find such an area suitable once it was larger?
Lastly, the only thing that has been proven time and time again with tangs, is they swim miles in the wild, and do NOT fare well in a cramped captive space.
The more I read on this the more confused I get...
How on earth do you have an 8 year old blue tang that is only 4 inches long? Either the tang is severely malnourished or it isn't 4 inches long. My blue tang was over 4 inches long at under a year old and it was the size of a nickle when I got it. I don't see how it could be very active in this tank, it has to be basically break dancing spinning around on it's head, getting dizzy. Regardless if the tank is round or not, that tank is way to small. What is the diameter?
I'm glad to see you care about the fish and nursed it back to health, but I think it is in the fish's best interest you trade it in, sell it off, give it away, or get a much much larger tank. You could look at getting a blue tail damsel, they look similar to blue hippos and are much more suited for that size tank.
The comment about it being proven time and time again they can be survived and are tank bread is just wrong, they are not tank bread and it has not been proven they can thrive in a small tank. Typically somebody with a two month old system will exclaim they have successfully kept the tang in that small of a tank, then a few months later ask what is wrong with their tang or why are their fish dieing. It is almost always a repeated cycle. If you look at people saying they can be kept in small systems, majority of them are relatively new to the hobby...anybody with a decent amount of experience (over 5 years) would recommend against keeping a hippo in anything less then a 120 and most wouldn't recommend less then a 180. A tang can SURVIVE in a tank that small for a limited time, but not thrive, and is a ticking time bomb. The fish will eventually break down and cause problems. Also the shear feeding requirements and waste production of an adult hippo make it next to impossible to maintain any sort of solid water parameters in a 25 gallon tank. They eat a lot, and poop more than any other fish, and resperate like crazy.
Good luck.
How on earth do you have an 8 year old blue tang that is only 4 inches long? Either the tang is severely malnourished or it isn't 4 inches long. My blue tang was over 4 inches long at under a year old and it was the size of a nickle when I got it. I don't see how it could be very active in this tank, it has to be basically break dancing spinning around on it's head, getting dizzy. Regardless if the tank is round or not, that tank is way to small. What is the diameter?
I'm glad to see you care about the fish and nursed it back to health, but I think it is in the fish's best interest you trade it in, sell it off, give it away, or get a much much larger tank. You could look at getting a blue tail damsel, they look similar to blue hippos and are much more suited for that size tank.
The comment about it being proven time and time again they can be survived and are tank bread is just wrong, they are not tank bread and it has not been proven they can thrive in a small tank. Typically somebody with a two month old system will exclaim they have successfully kept the tang in that small of a tank, then a few months later ask what is wrong with their tang or why are their fish dieing. It is almost always a repeated cycle. If you look at people saying they can be kept in small systems, majority of them are relatively new to the hobby...anybody with a decent amount of experience (over 5 years) would recommend against keeping a hippo in anything less then a 120 and most wouldn't recommend less then a 180. A tang can SURVIVE in a tank that small for a limited time, but not thrive, and is a ticking time bomb. The fish will eventually break down and cause problems. Also the shear feeding requirements and waste production of an adult hippo make it next to impossible to maintain any sort of solid water parameters in a 25 gallon tank. They eat a lot, and poop more than any other fish, and resperate like crazy.
Good luck.
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