What types of tangs can a 75 reef hold?

tjkohler

tjkohler

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My 75 gallon will be going up between now and Christmas. I'm starting my list of fish I'll have in it. It will be a reef tank with various coral and eventually clams. Mostly inverts in the tank. Must have fish:
Manderin (I'll have a 30 gallon refuge going to help supply pods, if my pod population ends up handling one easily I may get another to pair them up)
Would be nice fish:
Some kind of Tang (I'd like a Naso, but they just get to big ... right)
Fish I'm going to study up on:
Leopard Wrasse (I don't think I can have a leopard in with a Manderin because they would compete for the same food, but I'm looking into it just to be sure)
Sweetlips Clown (just so cool looking, I've done absolutely zero research on them as of yet though)
So my question, what type of Tang could I possibly go with that will 1) be happy in a 75 and 2) be very colorful/playful? Please list as many as you know :).
Thanks for your time!
 
u235a4

u235a4

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you can visted my site and there is a live fish feedpage from one of my 29G that has a yellow tang... the feed is set for 46k and 128k. the link is at the bottom of this post and also some pics of my one 125G at the main fish feed page. i will tell you this is my "luck" if you want to call it that but in the 125 i have 8 yellow tangs and 4 powder blues and i am going to get nail by saying that but there is no problem yet since they are young but as there size does increase i will need to move them into the 180R.... Also i want to add that i'm not saying that it is ok to have that many in the same tank that is just something i have done but if would like to see the yellow tang and hippo tang check the feed out
 
maroonclownfan

maroonclownfan

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U235a4,
How big is your yellow tang in the 29g.? I was thinking about putting a yellow tang in my 29 g but feared it would get too big. Or be stressed. I only have a Gold Stripe Maroon Clown in their right now.
Just wondered what your experience was?
Also, HOW in the world can you support that many tanks? I have enough trouble keeping up with one. I am jealous!:eek:
 
u235a4

u235a4

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as posted above check the feed out..... as far time goes my wife is a teacher so she spend most of her night on books that leaves me with week nights for the fish and then weekend well thats the ladys time...and house time.... if you have problems with the feed let me know.
 
u235a4

u235a4

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Lighting on both tanks are the same .... 250W 10K MH and two 75W VHO's actinics
29G Mini reef,(1)Amiracle MR-100 w/Rio2500, Kent Marine Nautilus TE Skimmer w/Rio2500, (1)Skilter 250s, (3) aquaclear 201phs,43lbs LR,30Lbs LAS
items
1) yellow tang
1) hippo tang
1 clarkii clown
1) percula clown
1 long tentical anemone
1) Flame scalop
15) peppermint shrimp
1) CBS Shrimp
2) cleaner Shrimp
1) cleaner wrasse
4) anemone crabs
4) snails
29G Mini reef,(1)Amiracle SL-150B w/Rio2500, Kent Marine Nautilus TE Skimmer w/Rio2500, (1)Skilter 250s, (3) aquaclear 201phs,50lbs LR,40Lbs LS
1) yellow tang
4) clarkii clown's
2) black and white heniocas
4) snails
5) peppermint shrimp
1) cleaner wrasse
2) cbs shrimp
1) long tentical anemone
 
u235a4

u235a4

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also the live feed runs on a port of 3334 and is done around windows media player 9 i will encode it for the older versions
 
corky

corky

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Naso tang would be my pick. Yes they can grow large but you don't have to buy on that is 16". Anyway, if you stay in this hobby you probably will have a larger tank by the time he grows out of the 75. It's too addictive.
 
jonthefb

jonthefb

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i would suggest a blue hippo. they are shy, but you can get them very small and then rear them to be a huge adult. nice feeling of accomplishment when this happens.
good luck
jon
 
fshhub

fshhub

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yello, or koles or blue hippo, definitely the latter 2 woudl be my first choice, based upon aggressiveness too
 
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