Coral Beauty and Tangs

[chips]

Can I add a Coral Beauty Angel after I have a Powder Blue Tang or should I add the Angel first? I always heard Angels should be added last in the tank. SWF lists the dwarf coral beauty angel as peaceful and the powder blue tang bold. I don't know what rule to follow now. Peaceful fish first and aggressive last, or angels are always last in the tank. I am also looking at getting a sailfin tang and know it would need to go in the tank before the powder blue. I am kind of on the fence about having two tangs in a 125 though. If I only have one it will be the sailfin and it is peaceful so would probably go in before or at the same time as the Angel anyway. Currently I have 1 clown, 1 Chromis, 1 starry blennie, 1 cardinal, 1 Anthia and 1 Engineer gobie. What order should I put the Tangs and Angel in the tank?

 

[mr. limpid]

Tangs are aggressive to each other so to answer your fist question I would make your coral beauty your last fish in the tank. Because angels are just aggressive. As for two tangs in a 125, you'll get different response, I say it ok I have 3 tangs in 135, but its only been 4 months since I added PBT. The only thing that I will comment is that salfin's are larger than PBT, but PBT are more aggressive tang, so if you want to try I would add salfin first, then add the PBT next. My thoughts are that the salfin won't have enough time to establish its territory B4 the PBT is in DT.

 

[tangs rule]

As stated, tangs are agressive with other tangs primarily, and other similar body shaped fish. I would not be too worried about agression though between the dwarf angle and tangs - as the dwarf will not be the largest fish in the tank, and when either tang outgrows it, it'll fall into line... I keep a coral beauty with 6 tangs (incl. a PBT) in a very large tank - and the dwarf angle had never attempted dominance.
I think the larger size of the tangs will prevent the coral b. from attempting to be alpha fish. The PBT will be your alpha, and depending on how aggressive YOUR PBT specemin is, pairing with another tang may/may not be possible.....my pbt was the last tang added, and I'd suggest your pbt be the last fish added.