My new tomini tang!!!

[40g Nano]

Pls don’t hammer me tang police
I am actively looking for a 90 gallon

anyway, I purchased a tomini tang for $75 at the fish store yesterday, and he looked very healthy, and was picking on rocks for algae. He is around 2-3 inches long

I put him in my 40 gallon mixed reef, and so far, he is exploring and not hiding unless there is movement in the house, but comes right out.
He has great coloration and looks pretty plump

 

[ReefdudeAdam]

Pictures!

 

[Rubberfrog]

No pics?! The tang police need photographic evidence!

 

[40g Nano]

Lemme clean the glass first lol

 

[Rubberfrog]

Lemme clean the glass first lol

Our glass is dirty too, don't worry about that.

 

[40g Nano]

Haven’t cleaned it in weeks!

 

[40g Nano]

There he is right behind my frogspawn

 

[40g Nano]

He is now eating the scraped algae and some off the glass

 

[Scallopking]

He looks nice! Here’s mine. They are cool fish. Mine grazes the rocks and walls.

 

[Rubberfrog]

What a beauty. I have a yellow tang and a hippo tang. I would love to add a tomini.

 

[40g Nano]

He seems to enjoy the algae clip

 

[ReefdudeAdam]

He seems to enjoy the algae clip

Beauty!

 

[joe0813]

I like my tomini in my 180reef even though he is a jerk sometimes

 

[40g Nano]

So after watching the tang for a while, he has rubbed up against the power head only a few times
Soooooo.... I don’t have qt set up currently so any bath treatments for ich? I have copper and ruby pro on hand

 

[40g Nano]

During a water change, he was out and about the whole time!

 

[40g Nano]

So are freshwater baths an option?
@Jay Hemdal

 

[William Morris]

I have one in my 32G Biocube - best fish I have ever had in my 50 years of keeping aquariums.
Peaceful and pecks away at the rock work all day long.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Purdy!

 

[40g Nano]

Thanks!

 

[joe0813]

if he's rubbing then unfortunately all the fish need to come out and treated in a QT tank. However since you just added him id leave him be. You can successfully manage ICH and be perfectly fine. Feed quality food and keep your water stable and you'll be fine. If you are upgrading to a 90 in the near future I would then treat the fish for 30 days in copper power while the 90 cycles. DO NOT USE THE ROCK OR SAND FROM THE OLD TANK as it could bring in an encrusted ich parasite