MURPH/goodwin9 - Question about your tank

thud

thud

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I noticed you have two yellow tangs:

Do they fight?
Did you add them to the tank at the same time? or one after the other?
Did they fight at first?
Is one bigger than the other?
Right now my medium size yellow tang is in the sump because they would not stop fighting and began nipping at fins... I wish to have both of them in the display tank but it seems to be impossible.
Ive received quite a bit of advice such as placing mirrors in the tank to keep the yellow tang busy, introducing aggressive fish to the tank at the same time and/or getting two different sized fish. oh and keeping an odd number in the tank...
I noticed goodwin9 has 5 yellow tangs...
 
bpaul1201

bpaul1201

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i was told that they are peaceful when 1 are introduced at same time, 2 are in odd numbers! i also read about them needing at least 75g per fish for the yellow tangs. goodwin has a 600g tank with plenty of room so there not really teritorial, but look at your tank size and his not a lot of room for 2 of them! but good luck, if anything you can always return/trade him in for a different fish!
 
thud

thud

Member
Originally Posted by bpaul1201
i was told that they are peaceful when 1 are introduced at same time, 2 are in odd numbers! i also read about them needing at least 75g per fish for the yellow tangs. goodwin has a 600g tank with plenty of room so there not really teritorial, but look at your tank size and his not a lot of room for 2 of them! but good luck, if anything you can always return/trade him in for a different fish!

Ha, there is life on earth! (thanks for responding)
I haven't tried separating both of them then adding them at the same time a few days later, Ill give it a shot. It's just a hassle because they hide and I hate to move the rocks/corals around.
 
bpaul1201

bpaul1201

Member
if you do that i would suggest to move a few rocks around so that no one has a teritory! and maybe they get it through their thick lil heads!
 
murph145

murph145

Active Member
hey im sorry i didnt catch this earlier
as far as the yellow tangs go... i feel that adding more than one of a same species in a smaller tank less than 180 is guna be a problem most of the time... i had 2 but the weaker one would get bullied away from food not so much a fite but just bullied away and i think this adventually lead to his death since he slowly perished
.... i didnt realize that they would act this way towards each other.... i would say in a larger tank you could do a small school of them .... when u have like lets say "5" of them they wont take all there agression out on one since there are so many that no single one will get the brunt end of the bullying and it will be spread out between all fish and usually they actually wont fight since theres such randomness between them all...
in your case i think your guna have a problem 2 is just not a good number in tangs
 
thud

thud

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Right now they are separated. One in my sump, the largest in the display tank. I'll see if I can trade it for something... otherwise he'll live in my sump forever. haha.
 
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