165 gal !!!!!
- Thread starter coachd
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greg j
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from this point on you should stop considering having a mandarin of any sort, the yellow tangs will kill it.
I've persistently tried several green and psychedelic mandarins because they are such incredible looking fish and am unfortunately admitting that they've all been killed 100% dead by my tangs. I have not witnessed this much violence from tangs before, and have trudged through battle royales between competing tangs (including a sohal vs purple vs powder blue vs yellow) with no majorly injured fish.
The problem is that the mandarins just don't do anything to avoid the attack .... they literally just sit there and take it, no hiding, swimming, or retaliating, they just get beaten, over and over again, until they die. The latest of several for me is one that I was able to intervene with and rescue into another tank, but it doesn't look well and might not make it through the night.
I've persistently tried several green and psychedelic mandarins because they are such incredible looking fish and am unfortunately admitting that they've all been killed 100% dead by my tangs. I have not witnessed this much violence from tangs before, and have trudged through battle royales between competing tangs (including a sohal vs purple vs powder blue vs yellow) with no majorly injured fish.
The problem is that the mandarins just don't do anything to avoid the attack .... they literally just sit there and take it, no hiding, swimming, or retaliating, they just get beaten, over and over again, until they die. The latest of several for me is one that I was able to intervene with and rescue into another tank, but it doesn't look well and might not make it through the night.