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Thanks for all the advice. I'll definately follow it. About removing the purple tang, it's only about an inch long. I've had it more than a year. How big do you see it getting? Randall

Hi, I have a 55 gallon tank with two common clown fish, a purple tang, a royal gramma, a firefish gobie and a hermit crab. The tank is well established. I've had it active for three years. I have about 30 gallons of live rock. I'd like to convert this to a reef tank so that I can add a...

Thanks to everyone for the advice--even to those who have beat me up a bit. My fourth fish is a cleaner shrimp. And yes, I've had the tank for two years. I had a yellow tang that died just recently with two percula clowns. I started with the clowns and then added the tang early in the tank's...

Runaround wrote: Could you post some info on your tank? how old--approximately two years live rock lbs.--5 good size rocks. Approximately 20 lbs nitrites--0 Ammonia--0 salinity-- 1.021 Alkaline-- 1.7 PH--8 Nitrate-- ran out of chemicals. Couldn't do test. But all my other readings are consistent...

I have a clown fish and just bought a purple tang last week. It's a 55 gallon tank. The purple tang is about half an inch long, fairly small. Is it too early to add another fish this weekend? What fish would someone recommend? I was looking at a trigger today, but it was suggested it may be too...

I have a 55 gallon tank with a four inch yellow tang and two clown fishes. I recently added a blue tang, but quickly found out a 55 gallon tank cannot support two tangs. My kids were really disappointed because they want a tank like in Finding Nemo. Does anyone have any suggestions for fish I...

I just introduced a 2-3 inch blue tang in a 55 gallon tank with two clown fish and a four inch yellow tang. I did this yesterday. Today I noticed the yellow tang pushing the blue tang with its fin. I'm of course concerned about stress and whether the blue tang can survive? Any thoughts on their...