Tang and fairy wrasse

[fishfatty]

Which should I add first- a fairy wrasse, or a blue/yellow tang?

 

[fishfatty]

come on...someone please help!!!

 

[wanabebell]

if you have the option of putting the fairy in first i would do it
But if you already have the tang in dont worry about it

 

[fishfatty]

what about a copperband butterfly...when would i add that?
Would it go-
1-fairy wrasse
2-tang
3-copperband
OR
1-fairy wrasse
2-copperband
3-tang
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[fishfatty]

bump

 

[poniegirl]

What size tank are you talking? It sounds like a lot of fish (inch for inch and attitude for attitude). Who are the members of the community at this point?

 

[fishfatty]

Originally Posted by PonieGirl
What size tank are you talking? It sounds like a lot of fish (inch for inch and attitude for attitude). Who are the members of the community at this point?
75 gal. tank....so far i have 2 clowns, and a small purple pseudochromis.

 

[poniegirl]

I can see you have begun a new thread on this subject. NO experience here with CBB.
From the direction you have taken with the clowns, I would stay with that. There are beautiful choices out there that don't require the risk of adding possibly aggressive or damaging fish. With a tank this size, IMO, the risk is there.
I have had tangs in a tank that should have been large enough (150) but IMO it still was not healthy for the fish, or my piece of mind.

 

[barbiganti]

Generally speaking, you want your least-aggressive fish in first. So you'd go with the fairy, then the butterflyfish, then the tang. Honestly, I'd scrap the notion of putting in a copper-banded butterflyfish in that type of system, and only add the tang. Why? Because your clowns and pseudochromis are both rather aggressive. You might be able to stick the fairy in because it's a relatively fast swimmer, and I think that your clowns will stick near their anemone enough to keep the fairy safe and you can find a fairy that's dissimilar enough in appearance not to make the pseudochromis feel threatened. But I'd put it in before the tang. Definitely. And I'd scrap the butterflyfish because it requires a larger tank due to its activity level (I'm thinking of something along the lines of a 100 to 125-gallon instead of a 75).

 

[anthropo]

you would add wrasse, then butterfly, then tang as tangs are more aggressive.

 

[nereef]

i don't think a copperband or a blue/yellow tang belongs in a 75, let alone both.