Tang pooping corner?

[Struggler]

Same thing happens to me! My fox face, Tomini, and lawnmower blenny all go to the corner of my 90 gallon to poop. Every. Time. It’s nice since it’s easy to vacume, but it’s literally next to my face when I wake up because my tank is next to my bed lol. I think they do it to spite me

 

[Struggler]

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[Struggler]

My foxface, Tomini, and algaeblenny all do the same thing. They poop in the corner of my tank. Its nice sense its easy vacume, but I see it in my face all the time sense my tank is next to my bed. I swear the do it to spite me lol

 

[N1Husker]

I recently purchased a Tomini tang (I have a Lemonpeel tang right now). The Tomini tang is significantly bigger AND I rescaped half the tank AND the LFS agreed to take the fish back if there were aggression issues in my 525xl (sorry just felt the need to cover my bases there).

Anyways, the two get along very peacefully (if anything the Lemonpeel is the boss) and generally avoid each other.

However, they both poop (HUGE ...payload... btw) in the EXACT SAME spot of the tank. The middle of the left side of the tank right against the glass. You can literally see accelerated algae and detritus where their poops land.

Do fish seriously sync up their pooping locations??

Sorry for the immature discussion but I'm amazed at how synced up it is.

I had a sailfin tang and he’d poop in the same spot and a lot. Sometimes he would swim around the tank with a trail of poop hanging out of his, his, well, you know what.

 

[TangsRLife]

I have 4 fish that all do this in my 125. 3 tangs and a foxface. They all poop in the front right. It makes cleaning up much easier

 

[Ratsinmyhead]

Not really related to a vegitarian tang but, I remember reading about how northern pike will do this in nature. The pike will hide in its ambush spot for hours. Or cruise around looking for a meal. Then move to another area to do its business. But if I remember right it had something to do with an alarm pheromone that minnows gave off when they were distressed(or eaten) and that would carry thru into the poop. And if the northern were to poop where it hunts, the other minnows (that would smell this pheromone) would be on high alert and less likely to be easy prey. I can’t see much of a relation between a fresh water meat eating predator, and a marine vegitarian, but the tang may have an unknown reason for what it is doing.

 

[declanisadog]

My kole tang definitely does this, and it's hilarious because it's the same corner the clowns hang out in. It looks like he deliberately swims backwards into their corner, and poops on them.

 

[tautog83]

This is funny , I've never really noticed this but moving foward when I get more tangs I'll have to see if it happens . I use to have a black cap basslet that hated my corals . He would randomly grab a mouthful of sand and spit it out on every coral in the tank . I know they move sand and all but he would go out of the way to spit on each and every coral ..jerk lol

 

[Wen]

My WTB does this. Maybe a Ctenochaetus thing???

Only time I ever see my WTB poop is in far left corner of the tank...was shocked to observe this.
The red mushrooms in that location are very happy about it. Lol

 

[xeanliao]

Funny to find this thread ... I thought it was odd that my Tomini tang is house trained, googled and ends here. Just like Wen above, he has to go to the far left corner to do the thing

 

[gparkford]

Mine goes into the back left corner, concentrates really hard and then dumps out! Lemon tang juvenile.

 

[PilotOfSubmarines]

Yes. all my large fish goto the front right, poop, swim away as fast as they can while the others feast. Sailfin, Yellow, Purple, Foxface, etc....they all do it.

 

[Crabby48]

Tangs do not care where they poop. Feed them and they’ll poop!

My tomini poops in the back right corner of the tank. He hangs and sleeps on the opposite side of the tank. very rarely he will poop in a difrent area.

You are welcome to come and watch my tang poop lol

 

[4FordFamily]

My tomini poops in the back right corner of the tank. He hangs and sleeps on the opposite side of the tank. very rarely he will poop in a difrent area.

You are welcome to come and watch my tang poop lol

All 15 or so of mine just poop when they eat everywhere lol, but fish are individuals!

 

[kevin318]

I recently purchased a Tomini tang (I have a Lemonpeel tang right now). The Tomini tang is significantly bigger AND I rescaped half the tank AND the LFS agreed to take the fish back if there were aggression issues in my 525xl (sorry just felt the need to cover my bases there).

Anyways, the two get along very peacefully (if anything the Lemonpeel is the boss) and generally avoid each other.

However, they both poop (HUGE ...payload... btw) in the EXACT SAME spot of the tank. The middle of the left side of the tank right against the glass. You can literally see accelerated algae and detritus where their poops land.

Do fish seriously sync up their pooping locations??

Sorry for the immature discussion but I'm amazed at how synced up it is.

I have a Bristletooth Tomini Tang and it poops in the same spot of the tank. I just posted about it......LOL! Major dumps too, the crabs in my tank hang out in that area waiting for the delivery.

 

[Wen]

Funny to find this thread ... I thought it was odd that my Tomini tang is house trained, googled and ends here. Just like Wen above, he has to go to the far left corner to do the thing

white tail bristletooth and its corner

 

[Zionas]

It’s perhaps the fish equivalent of pooping where you eat. Maybe one of these days they’ll go for diversity and take things to the next level.

 

[TheWalkingCoral]

Dude my Tomini Tang also only pops in one corner lol

 

[12pack]

I would guess it is flow

 

[infinite0180]

My Yellow Eye has a special spot as well haha

 

[TheWalkingCoral]

To everyone say it's flow, it's absolutely not flow. I've physically watched him **** in a corner at least 5 times lol.