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I know Ford4Family made a similar thread, but I wanted to share my personal experience with keeping acanthurus tangs.
My tank is 250 gallons and I have an 80 watt UV sterilizer (rated for 600 gallons) running 24/7. My tank is 2.5 months old since rebooting it and the tangs are about 1-2 months in my tank.
Ive kept a blue tang, naso, vlamingii, purple, powder brown, lavender, clown, and Caribbean.
Ive been home these few months and I’ve been feeding very heavily frozen LRS multiple times a day with seaweed. All the tangs were eating. This past week I’ve made very very big changes to my lights. I switched my LED’s to T5’s and my one of my new T5 units arrived faulty so it’s been crazy between switching back and fourth from LED and T5 about 5 times in the same day.
2 days ago I lost a powder brown tang. He was half alive attached to a powder head. Last night I saw my clown tang laying on the sand bed. I did a fresh water bath and placed him back inside the tank and the clown tang was getting pushed all around the tank. This morning I couldn’t find the fish. Nassarius snails must of taken care of him overnight.
I still have 2 acanthurus tangs left. These are the lavender and Caribbean. They are medium to large.
Besides for those acanthurus tangs, all the other tangs are alive except for 3 baby yellow tangs I purchased which all died because they had a birth defects (common with Captive Bred).
I’m going to keep my tank as stress free starting now. I started slacking on my feedings too, so I’m going to pick them up, but so far I’m seeing a pattern with acanthurus tangs dying.
My tank is 250 gallons and I have an 80 watt UV sterilizer (rated for 600 gallons) running 24/7. My tank is 2.5 months old since rebooting it and the tangs are about 1-2 months in my tank.
Ive kept a blue tang, naso, vlamingii, purple, powder brown, lavender, clown, and Caribbean.
Ive been home these few months and I’ve been feeding very heavily frozen LRS multiple times a day with seaweed. All the tangs were eating. This past week I’ve made very very big changes to my lights. I switched my LED’s to T5’s and my one of my new T5 units arrived faulty so it’s been crazy between switching back and fourth from LED and T5 about 5 times in the same day.
2 days ago I lost a powder brown tang. He was half alive attached to a powder head. Last night I saw my clown tang laying on the sand bed. I did a fresh water bath and placed him back inside the tank and the clown tang was getting pushed all around the tank. This morning I couldn’t find the fish. Nassarius snails must of taken care of him overnight.
I still have 2 acanthurus tangs left. These are the lavender and Caribbean. They are medium to large.
Besides for those acanthurus tangs, all the other tangs are alive except for 3 baby yellow tangs I purchased which all died because they had a birth defects (common with Captive Bred).
I’m going to keep my tank as stress free starting now. I started slacking on my feedings too, so I’m going to pick them up, but so far I’m seeing a pattern with acanthurus tangs dying.
