Long nose black tang!

reef1980 · Feb 7, 2014

Here is my baby!! Have had him for a little over 4 months. Starting to get nice and fat. Just want to see some others out there so post your pictures here.

TJ's Reef · Feb 7, 2014

VERY NICE, and see some more uncommon Tangs as well. What all do you have in your Reef Tang wise ? Also would be cool to see a FTS.

Cheers, Todd

alberto · Feb 7, 2014

Very nice!!!

alberto · Feb 7, 2014

What size is?

reef1980 · Feb 7, 2014

The current fish list is:
1 Fowleri tang
1 black tank
2 Red Sea lyretails
1 ruby red dragonet
1 watchmen goby
5 Red Saddled Anthias
2 clowns one ORA Black Ice Snowflake and one ORA Ocellaris
19 Black Axil Chromis
1 yellow coarse wrasse

Right now i am happy with what i have. I only plan on adding 1 more fish/pair. The one fish i would add would be a male blonde naso tang. The one pair would be a crosshatch. I am currently on a list for a crosshatch pair so we will see.

FTS:

Reefing Madness · Feb 7, 2014

Very tight!!

vlangel · Feb 7, 2014

Wow, looks like a tang haven! Lots of open water for swimming, Nice.

reef1980 · Feb 7, 2014

Reefing Madness said:
Very tight!!

Thanks !

vlangel said:
Wow, looks like a tang haven! Lots of open water for swimming, Nice.

Thank you! Yea they do love it...and my amplitude of feedings...:bigsmile:

reef1980 · Feb 7, 2014

Here is an older video of me hand feeding my Fowleri:

(make sure to put in HD)
Tank 10/06/13 - YouTube

alan.reef · Feb 7, 2014

nice Long nose blk tang and expensive too

Vpham · Feb 7, 2014

Have never seen a fowleri in that size, beautiful color contrasting between it's fins n tail. How big is it?

vlangel · Feb 7, 2014

That feeding video is sweet. Have you had any issues with ich? Your tang has a similiar body shape and markings as powder blue tangs and they seem to be ich magnets. A friend of mine has a powder blue in her 220g FOWLR system and she runs her salinity low, around .019 SG to ward off ich.

jeremy · Feb 7, 2014

Love your fish. I have been looking for a black tang now seeing your I really want one!!.

reef1980 · Feb 8, 2014

alan.reef said:
nice Long nose blk tang and expensive too

Lol thank you.

Vpham said:
Have never seen a fowleri in that size, beautiful color contrasting between it's fins n tail. How big is it?

Fish or tank?

vlangel said:
That feeding video is sweet. Have you had any issues with ich? Your tang has a similiar body shape and markings as powder blue tangs and they seem to be ich magnets. A friend of mine has a powder blue in her 220g FOWLR system and she runs her salinity low, around .019 SG to ward off ich.

Thank you! Will have to do another tomorrow as i am free. I fortunately have not had any issues with heath. The fowleri is a PIG! He could eat all day(which he does...) I just believe that heavy feedings and quality food oh and A LOT of spectrum pellets haha are what keeps the pest away.

jeremy said:
Love your fish. I have been looking for a black tang now seeing your I really want one!!.

I do not regret it. They are known for being finicky fish to high nitrates. Also have seen people say they are aggressive...Luckily i added him last and he was about the size of a quarter. I do run a "ULNS" for lack of better term. I does a carbon source to help with the tank being a SPS Dominant reef. So the high nitrate thing does not come in play for me.

Here is the black tang when he first came in. He came in pretty rough. Was a little worried.