tangs

[ReDDeviLs]

hi guys,i wonder why some people have their tangs e.g yellow or purple..live happily together.. or 2 yellow and 2 purple tangs together.. wun they fight?

i added a purple tang into my tank many mths ago and my resident brown tank bullied it.. i added a power brown tang at that time too..and my purple tang stress it.. isit because of insufficent hiding place? or what reason?

do i have to catch them all up and put all into the tank together?

and also a friend of mine lost his kole tang after 2weeks,the tang dont seem to feed at any food only pecking on rocks and algae.. i heard form a lfs that kole tang actually feed on algae..and after there is no more algae it will starve and die is that true?

[aStRoBo|]

try introducing both the same time... think will be fine..

[evanscence]

personally, i have abt 3 tangs together at the moment. They seem to be quite happy swimming together though there are ocassionally fights.

i guess there might lotsa factors that will decide if different tangs can live together.

1) size, generally if all e tangs r roughly the same size. There is a gd chance they can live in harmony.

2) acclimatise them properly. The bullying part is always the initial stage when the new tang is introduce. What i do is to use the mirror method introduce by henry of ML. WORK WELL FOR ME.

3) personality of the tangs. It a bit abstract but i realise that i have a very friendly yellow tang who was the pionner in my tank.

BTW i have a yellowtang, purple tang and sailfin tang together. Planning to add a powder blue once my nitrates is control.

Any bros or sis out there who can advise also on how to keep different species tangs together.....

[blur]

me added me YT mths after I introduce me 1st tang, a blue tang. Never had problem leh. Read somewhere need to introduce new fishes at low light, i.e. while they're sleeping. Enuff hiding place oso critical. But me think basically me blue tang bo chap new tank mates. Now both tangs are growing happily in me tank:)

Cheers,

[kschew1498]

hi guys,i wonder why some people have their tangs e.g yellow or purple..live happily together.. or 2 yellow and 2 purple tangs together.. wun they fight?

i added a purple tang into my tank many mths ago and my resident brown tank bullied it.. i added a power brown tang at that time too..and my purple tang stress it.. isit because of insufficent hiding place? or what reason?

do i have to catch them all up and put all into the tank together?

and also a friend of mine lost his kole tang after 2weeks,the tang dont seem to feed at any food only pecking on rocks and algae.. i heard form a lfs that kole tang actually feed on algae..and after there is no more algae it will starve and die is that true?

Sigh! My kole tang has not been eating also......only peck on LR! The rest, blue, brown, yellow, sailfin, power brown are all eating lettuce happily!

My yellow occasionally will give chase to the brown but only when it comes to food.....

I think Wei Leong should be the most qualify person to give us some advise!!! Bro....need your enlightenment.........

[jc85]

Try the mirror method, it works like a gem.

Cheers

JC

[Achilles Tang]

Hmmm, IMO, there shouldn't be that many tangs in the average 5ft tank.

Just because Wei Leong has squeezed in that many tangs into one tank doesn't mean that if he can do it, everyone else can.

I believe he is going to let go of some because of aggression issues.

I don't think you'll like to see all your money disappear because of ick outbreak due to stress amongst your tangs right?

Remember that your marine tank is supposed to be an oasis for your fishes.... not a torture chamber.

[weileong]

Sorry folks I have 2 tanks and not one. 11 tangs in one tank??? that is crazy

My poor sohal is getting bash by my AT every night *surprised* so I am trying to save that fella

[nim75sg]

The Sohal Tang is a tough nut whereas the Achilles is the toughest and must say that they are stunning beautiful fish but very aggressive by nature.

Likewise, you can't have a Powder Blue in the same tank with a Achilles.

Putting them in the same tank is asking for trouble and although you can a "lord of the tank" of many species, it is advisable only to have a single fish of a given species in a tank.

Of course they are exceptions like the Regal and Yellow Tangs which are most likely to thrive in groups in the aquarium tank ie best to keep at least 5 fishes which should be introduced at the same time.

[yus75]

hehehe ive mine a purple a yellow 2 brown n a bristle tooth living in harmony ..... guess lots of hiding place is needed to keep it in peace.....

[IcecruncherZ]

And lots of luck! Once had a very peaceful Desjardinii. Was very tolerant of all his tankmates.

Had horrible luck with yellow/ purple tangs, which is why I'll never buy them ever again... eugh... whacks everything i put in.

Diff individuals have diff characters, of course, diffused aggresion helps. To avoid aggression from my flame angel, i added my flameback and potter's together. Worked well for me

[ReDDeviLs]

whats with the mirror method? care to talk more about it? i never heard of it before..

perhaps i need to add much more liverocks.

[weileong]

Put a mirror in front of the tank so your aggressive tang see already thought got another similar tang then will divert it's attention go back it's own mirror image.

[patrick123]

I have a sohal, a yellow tang in my 6x2.5x2.5 tank. Planning to add a PBT and a naso.

Can someone advise if this is too much to handle? I also have a blueface angel and a coral beauty, but no one bothers with them.

[ReDDeviLs]

alright thanks bro WL

[AlfaRomeo]

Patrick... your bioload should be ok for such a big tank. I have 5 tangs in a tank of your size and so far so good...

[patrick123]

Alfa,

Care to share what kind of tangs they are?

Thanks,

Patrick

[weileong]

bro Alfa have the following:

Blue Tang

Chevron Tang

Kole Tang

Sailfin Tang

Achiles Tang (pending recovery from ICH to make it a perm member)

and he is considering:

Atlantic Blue Tang

[patrick123]

Thanks.

[nutx]

up till now, I'm more discipline, with only a clown tang, purple and yellow tang, plus a angel....

This is because I failed to keep my PBT survived!

[weileong]

Don't worry it's just a matter of time

[ReDDeviLs]

i have read in some articles they actually mention adding the tangs all together or do a rescape after adding a new tang when there is a resident tang in there.. this is quite difficult to achive..

but by adding 2-3tangs at once,wouldnt the tank be unable to cope with the bioload?

unless we cage all of them up and then releasing into the tank all together? sounds kinda weird.?