Multiple Powder Blue tangs

[nereefpat]

I regret it every time I post to these groups….Does it really matter where I saw them dude? ….or if it was me who saw them?…..or who took the picture? ….or the water temp? Picture says it all really. That was my point. Tangs school in wild.

That's a bit much. It was a legitimate question.

You revived a 3 year old thread to argue about tangs schooling, and then lied about what you've seen. Forgive us if we don't believe what you say.

 

[i cant think]

I regret it every time I post to these groups….Does it really matter where I saw them dude? ….or if it was me who saw them?…..or who took the picture? ….or the water temp? Picture says it all really. That was my point. Tangs school in wild.

They don’t live in schools naturally, let alone form proper hierarchy’s. From what I know and have seen in photos, it’s more of a way to stay hidden from predators, as predators will pick off the weakest ones that fall off guard.
Also in Hawaii? I ask this because that’s not their native range. Their native range is throughout the Indian Ocean, from eastern Africa to the Andaman Sea, southwest Indonesia, and Christmas Island, into the western Pacific Ocean to Bali, Indonesia.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I don't recommend keeping that body of tangs in a school in a home aquarium. 5-7 or even 8 or 9 in a 1000g display would be a good start but you would need massive flow and lots of algae on the rocks.... lol. Like lots.

I'd suggest a school of the zebra body tangs 1st before I went trying those. Scopus. Yellows. Purples. Even foxfaces...
GL! And let us know the road u take.
...wait this is an old thread. Am I talking to myself?! Lol!
D

 

[i cant think]

I don't recommend keeping that body of tangs in a school in a home aquarium. 5-7 or even 8 or 9 in a 1000g display would be a good start but you would need massive flow and lots of algae on the rocks.... lol. Like lots.

I'd suggest a school of the zebra body tangs 1st before I went trying those. Scopus. Yellows. Purples. Even foxfaces...
GL! And let us know the road u take.
...wait this is an old thread. Am I talking to myself?! Lol!
D

I agree with you - I wouldn’t attempt a school of Acanthurus tangs. An update on what the OP did would be great though!

 

[Brucealmighty]

This is an interesting thread, I thought tangs school together too, have seen many nature documentaries showing smaller convict tangs and yellow tangs schooling and bigger fish too, as for it happening in a glass box no, it's exactly that, a glass box and can never imitate their natural surroundings so we can not use it to guage their behaviour in a confined space.

But wow 1000 gallons what a glass box I would love to see a picture or a 1000

 

[i cant think]

This is an interesting thread, I thought tangs school together too, have seen many nature documentaries showing smaller convict tangs and yellow tangs schooling and bigger fish too, as for it happening in a glass box no, it's exactly that, a glass box and can never imitate their natural surroundings so we can not use it to guage their behaviour in a confined space.

But wow 1000 gallons what a glass box I would love to see a picture or a 1000

Convicts are more capable of being grouped in smaller tanks, the larger species such as the powder complex aren’t as easy to group in tanks. They seem to prefer being solitary, coming into groups when it’s feeding or breeding.