Tangs

[Tag713]

I have a Dussmeri and a yellowfin in the same tank. I’ve been doing this over 40 years. Never have I seen saltwater fish kissing. They weren’t friendly to each other in the beginning. Now they swim around together and rub up against each other. What the heck is going on? Is this two tangs mating? What would you call that fish besides a mutt. lol

 

[Lavey29]

Are you running a lunar cycle with your lights so there is a full moon out?

 

[nereefpat]

More likely they are play-fighting to establish dominance. Feel like linking a short video via Youtube?

 

[Tag713]

Are you running a lunar cycle with your lights so there is a full moon out?

I do but it is only for a short period of time

 

[Lavey29]

I do but it is only for a short period of time

You realize I was just making a full moon joke about the fish love relationship right?

 

[blecki]

Are they pressing their tails together? If so it's a dominance display. They are showing each other their scalpels. Highly likely that they are going to actually take some swings at each other at some point.

 

[Tag713]

You realize I was just making a full moon joke about the fish love relationship right?

Yeah it was pretty funny

 

[Tag713]

Are they pressing their tails together? If so it's a dominance display. They are showing each other their scalpels. Highly likely that they are going to actually take some swings at each other at some point.

No it is not a dominance thing. They hang out to much now.

 

[jason2459]

I have a yellow belly blue hippo and a sailfin tang for probably 8 years now. They sleep in the same crevice together and swim together almost all the time. The sailfin still does a dominance dance and pushes the hippo around in circles at times.

Swimming together is different then pushing into each other. The later is a dominance act.