Hey guys i brought home a new aditton to my tank yesterday, A smale Regal Tang. Its not seeming like its doing all right, it rather lie up against a rock near the bottom of the tank. For fish there is a pigmy angel and to fals clowns in a 33G Any ideas? could the angel be bothering it?
Regal Tang
- Thread starter kristofer1
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about the size issue, by then he will be in my 200g tank, i will be starting to set it up in 3 mounths or so. I know the get quite big. if i rember right they get about 5-6in in captivity and larger in the wild.... what 10in or so in the wild? right now he is about the size of my clown <they look cute to geather> so i'd say about 1.5 -2in big. He seems alot better now, swiming around with the clown...
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That is good.
Small regal tangs kind of fold themselves into the nooks and crannies of the rock. This is normal.
Regal tangs are ich magnets. You should be feeding her garlic soaked food (flavour free garlic extract which you can buy at a health food store)for ten days as a preventative measure. This is really important as the ich will also infect the other fish.
Small regal tangs kind of fold themselves into the nooks and crannies of the rock. This is normal.
Regal tangs are ich magnets. You should be feeding her garlic soaked food (flavour free garlic extract which you can buy at a health food store)for ten days as a preventative measure. This is really important as the ich will also infect the other fish.
I have had a regal tang for 10 years. It only got ick once during the second month I had him.
I have never used the garlic treatment, but I have heard good results from fellow board members.
I know it is a tang and you want to feed it some vegatative matter, but also feed it meaty foods. I feed mine several of the Ocean Nutrition frozen foods, such as Formula 1 & 2, Prime Reef and Angel Formula.
As an occassional treat, the tank gets Selcon soaked live brine shrimp.
HTH
I have never used the garlic treatment, but I have heard good results from fellow board members.
I know it is a tang and you want to feed it some vegatative matter, but also feed it meaty foods. I feed mine several of the Ocean Nutrition frozen foods, such as Formula 1 & 2, Prime Reef and Angel Formula.
As an occassional treat, the tank gets Selcon soaked live brine shrimp.
HTH
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