Tang behavior questions

[swilbs83]

Ok...I have been doing alot of research about tangs for the last month or so, but i would prefer to hear your opinions, experiences, and suggestions and go by that, rather then the websites...I have a 75g reef tank and will be adding my tang after all the other fish are established (2 percula clowns, 6 green chromis, 2 cleaner shrimp, royal gramma, purple firefish, and either a flame angel or coral beauty)....Now the tangs I am interested in are the purple tang, blue hippo, achilles, powder blue..If none of these will work out a yellow or kole tang(don't really prefer them)...Now I want a peaceful, fairly hardy (as far as tangs go), tang that will get along withh the other inhabitants and also a tang that I will be able to keep in the 75g for life....Please let me know about what you think and the experiences you have had before...I just dont' trust the websites since all of them say something different(i'm getting very confused and frustrated!)...Thanks for your help

 

[thewizzrd]

Well, I have a hippo(blue) tang that I just added about 2 weeks ago and he seems to be doing well and is teh best looking tang in my opinion. I intend on having 3 and a Naso so we'll see ho that goes. The blue seems to be doing well, eating like a horse and swimming around. You just have to look for a healthy one in the pet store. The get ich easy so you have to watch for that. I have only seen a few at lfs's around where I live that didnt already have a small case. If your water is good and you acclimate them correctly you shouldnt have a problem and he/she i svery peaceful. He likes to lay on the rock, so dont think he is dead, he's just chillin.

 

[justnu]

I would have to agree with Sammystingray on the Purple tang. My Powder Blue is very active and I am glad I have 150 gal. for him. Hippo would add some great color to your tank though!

 

[jrb384]

i have a yellow, powder blue and blonde nasso. at first the yellow tried to establish himself as dominant, after a few minutes of wasted energy, the 3 could care less what the others are doing. I've heard all sorts of opinions about shape, color, ect. but there is no garuntee that a particualar fish will get along with any other. all you can do is research, like your doing, and try to minimize the risk, hope it works out for you. The law I follow in adding fish is the law of economics, if the fighting goes on to long at gets out of hand, then naturally a $18.00 yellow tang gets the boot back to the LFS before the $100.00 ones. One thing is you'll clearly see why they are called surgeon fish, that white barb near the end of their fin is deadly and they'll swim around in circles trying to hook one another.