yellow tang yes or no

[teviesfish]

hubby and i are wanting a yellow tang. We want your opinion because we read nothign but conflicting reports. Reeferman? anything? our tank is 75 gallons and we are just thinking of what to get .. havent actually gotten any fish yet.

 

[teviesfish]

anyone?

 

[sinaloa213]

it would be fine i got a baby in my 95
had three and did fine

 

[teviesfish]

alrighty then sinaloa213 we are off to bed thanks for the comment. We are going to try it.

 

[poniegirl]

What other fish will you eventually want? The end result will be all adult fish. Keep that in mind, it's a different story.
My thought might be to find the least aggressive, easy care fish that you want to keep for 5 years or so (they should live that long) and add the most aggrssive fish last.

just an opinion.

 

[puffer32]

IMO yellows are fine in a 75, but make it your last fish, they are aggresive.

 

[grandmarm]

hi,
we have a yellow tang and blue hippo - they get along fine in our 90 gallon.
good luck

 

[dragonzim]

I had a yellow in my 75 for about a year and just had to give him away because he outgrew it.

 

[torno]

What do you think of the kole tangs? They're attractive, and stay smaller than yellows (around 6"). I'm trying a small tomini in my 55.

 

[xdave]

I can't find it now but there was a thread along the lines of what do you most regret having done, or something like that. Yellow Tangs came up a lot.
IMHO
*They are very easy to stress out
*Get massive parasite infestations every time you look crosseyed at them
*Their temperment can be aywhere from whipped puppy to serial killer.
*lfs resorts to feeding a diet of live brine shrimp, all though they look well fed, they're malnurished.
*Less than one out of every hundred that live long enough to get to a store live more than a year after that.