? for the Tang Police...

[cali_reef]

it all depends on luck and space. the more space the happier the tangs will be.

I don't think keeping fish alive involves luck.. You have to have the right environment, right support equipment, knowledge in the fish's needs, pick the right fish, willing to spend time in obtaining all of the above and have patient while doing and learning it all.

You can have a 400 gallon tank and a bunch dead tangs if you don't know what you are doing.

 

[marrone]

You can have a 400 gallon tank and a bunch dead tangs if you don't know what you are doing.

Hey wasn't that my quote that I made to you

 

[cali_reef]

Hey wasn't that my quote that I made to you

Yes sir, that is why I am bring it up

 

[DRZL]

However, no matter if all things are perfect param-wise, a small tank is just not the best situation for a tang. especially since they are prone to ich up when stressed.

How about buying a fish that would be suited to a tank your size? w/ the same coloration.

Instead of trying to stuff little pretties in there. If you really want the fish get a bigger tank.

 

[nycmat]

aquascape and then add at the same time is your best chance i have both in my tank

 

[Dmitry]

Hey, I was told I couldn't put a Yellow and a Hippo in a 72, but he gets a Yellow and a Purple in a 58?! :tongue1:

Actually, observing my Yellow he didn't need a tank that big. He spends the vast majority of his time in the very center, swimming back and forth and flaring his fins, covering only a third of the tank's surface. :scratchch

 

[Deanos]

Actually, observing my Yellow he didn't need a tank that big. He spends the vast majority of his time in the very center, swimming back and forth and flaring his fins, covering only a third of the tank's surface. :scratchch

What would constitute your YT needing a bigger tank? It crashing into the side glass looking for more room? By your observations, your tang would be happy in a tank 1/3 the size of a 72. :wow: That's funny. :icon16:

Also, at what is your tang displaying aggression towards, with the flaring of its fins?

 

[Dmitry]

Now that's a Tang Police response we've all been waiting for!

I assume he's flaring his fins at his own reflection. Asking him is useless, though.

 

[DRZL]

What would constitute your YT needing a bigger tank? It crashing into the side glass looking for more room? By your observations, your tang would be happy in a tank 1/3 the size of a 72. :wow: That's funny. :icon16:

Also, at what is your tang displaying aggression towards, with the flaring of its fins?

thats almost too damn funny!

LOL!!

I remember a guy told me his tang (in a 12G) doesnt really need that much space, he can just swim in circles! same thing, right?

If I had a nightstick.....:sgrin:

 

[jawwad2004]

I have a blue hippo and a yellow tang in a 90, and people tell me its too small! Im like WTF, lol? How big then someone tell me! (A regal angel is in there also and they seem to coexist perfectly)

 

[marrone]

A 90gal isn't to small to house both those fish but eventually the Hippo will get very large and probably out grow the tank. What may work now, coexisting, mayn't work down the downline when the fish get larger.

 

[jawwad2004]

Well im planning on a major upgrade to a 200+ gallon tank in the next 2 years. For now I think the 90 should suffice.