They can be. Zebrasoma don’t often hold permanent grudges unlike their acanthurus cousins. The goal of course is to have no or no serious damage before that grudge diminishes.
bouncing back to this thread. I finally managed to get my majestic angel into my blond naso, desjardini, hippo, scopas and Achilles tank. I had to add a foxface and sohal with the angel to keep the Achilles from tearing them apart. A couple days and it was peacefully. flash forward 3 weeks... the tank got ich ...
I had to tear it all apart to get all the fish into QT while I go fallow.
such a fun hobby!!!
Hello,
So I may sound really well dumb for this question but, no one at my lfs had consistent answers. My tank size is 240 gallons, where I have in order they went in,
1.) hippo, 2.) paired clowns, 3.) my large Naso from my old tank the largest also, 4.) tommini tang, 5.) Lt. Tang 6.) purple tang, 7.) bellus angel (which was only harassed by my female clown 8.) 7 blue green chromies to drive the female clown crazy and stop chasing my angel.
Of all my tangs my Lt. Tang seems to be the boss at times but so does the Naso tang, which is about 6 Inches and all others are half her size, and the Lt is maybe 4 inches. I don’t have any aggression with my tangs, I had a tiny bit between the tommini and purple tang, but as they went at it the Lt tang went after both of them. The same with the female clown after about a week when I added the female bellus angel, she sorta tried to nip my Lt tang in which I’m turn he tail slapped her across the tank and chased her (because she is super slow he slapped her four more times), she stopped and hosted my frogspawn quick. Since then I have no tank aggression in my tank.
I do feed every day and try and put nori in which helps. They don’t fight over food because I give them five pellets of frozen food a day in stages.
The reason I’m asking is my last fish I want is really a Achilles tang or even a powder brown tang. But, most tell me because of the purple tang which shows no aggression at all would just destroy the powder brown or Achilles tangs. Plus I have never had any fish disease in my tank, and I would love to keep it that way, (one way is don’t add new fish). So I’m curious if it would be safe to add either one of those two tangs to my tank. I know fish tk tank ratio either I’m right there or can do one more.
Any suggestions on if this would be a good or terrible idea. If I do it, yes I should do both fish at the same time, but was told that would be even worse by several sources which are opposite of other several sources. In short I’m more confused now than I was when I started thinking about all this.
If you quarantine your fish, you should be fine with other additions. Tomini can be nasty but larger fish of different shape added in groups just before lights out after some territory moving —- best chance of success. I’d advise against two hippo tangs that could become an ugly divorce. I see several doing this and generally they’re very different in size. IMO they do best in groups of 5+ or singly— or at least that’s the lowest risk. A trio or “quattro” of zebrasoma tangs should be fine if different genus and added together. You can fit a lot of tangs in an 800 gal — I would personally recommend adding a large Naso Tang of some sort to be your “referee” or “neutralizer”.
If you quarantine your fish, you should be fine with other additions. Tomini can be nasty but larger fish of different shape added in groups just before lights out after some territory moving —- best chance of success. I’d advise against two hippo tangs that could become an ugly divorce. I see several doing this and generally they’re very different in size. IMO they do best in groups of 5+ or singly— or at least that’s the lowest risk. A trio or “quattro” of zebrasoma tangs should be fine if different genus and added together. You can fit a lot of tangs in an 800 gal — I would personally recommend adding a large Naso Tang of some sort to be your “referee” or “neutralizer”.
Naso genus tangs are generally pretty docile and not overtly territorial and smaller nastier tangs will often follow their lead for fear of the dual scalpel beat down that can follow if “tank boss naso” doesn’t approve of the fighting and commotion. An angry naso is a very formidable opponent with two giant scalpels and other fish seem very intimidated by them, even the nasty powder blue will often submit to a large naso especially if it was incumbent.
So that would be my plan of attack in a tank that large! When I build my wall tank that’s my plan!
I have way too many tangs in my 180 (I’ve always done that) but the larger ones will be moved to a giant wall tank. I’d love to have a blonde naso in my 180 but it’s too small and too overstocked — or at least will he soon.
I don’t see a blonde naso outgrowing an 800 if it’s 8-10 feet wide or longer unless it lives close to its full expected lifespan and even then, it’s probably debatable.
I don’t see a blonde naso outgrowing an 800 if it’s 8-10 feet wide or longer unless it lives close to its full expected lifespan and even then, it’s probably debatable.
8 foot would be short typically but if you have an 800 gal if it’s onkh 8 feet wide I imagine there’s lots of space in there
I thought I would share my two new additions...
This will be interesting. I had a very good month at work and decided to treat myself to something I said I’d never purchase. A gem tang.
I found this beautiful male Achilles tang on divers den with streamers and a giant teardrop. It has the appearance of a large male 7-8 inches but it’s onky 4.5!
I suspect he will be a terror, but it’s a handsome fish. Hopefully these rampant infections in the hobby don’t dust this batch!
@HotRocks no pressure bro (he has been quarantining my fish recently we switched it up haha)
Heck yeah
It’s possible, but I’m guessing there is more at play here. That fish has an infection, perhaps from a sustained injury.So I think my Red Sea sailfin tang Is killing fish I or I have some crazy diseased fish just lost my naso tang who was hiding and not eating got really skinny and also got weird lesions on its body than today his whole side started a huge lesion andater today he passed away
Last week I saw him hit my sunburst anthias real hard and died within several minutes no visabke marks. My other fish seem to be doing okay.
Than week before that my Lrytail anthias started hiding all of sudden than died only aggression In
see not from the Sailfin.
Now both anhtias we newer fish who went through a month QT.
180 gallon Tank mates
4-5" Red Sea sailfin tang or Desjardin's
3-4" Yellow tang
Small yellow belly regal tang
Bellus Angels male and female
2 black Clowns
Midas Blenny
Bicolor Blenny
Azure Damsel
Allen Damsel
Watchman go by
bouncing back to this thread. I finally managed to get my majestic angel into my blond naso, desjardini, hippo, scopas and Achilles tank. I had to add a foxface and sohal with the angel to keep the Achilles from tearing them apart. A couple days and it was peacefully. flash forward 3 weeks... the tank got ich ...
I had to tear it all apart to get all the fish into QT while I go fallow.
such a fun hobby!!!
. the fish are doing fine in their respective totes and tanks except for my red tailed tamarin wrasse... he decided to swim into the inlet of my HOB filter 
