YT mix with PT

[sjsheng]

i have recently bought a purple tang.. guess what...

the yt territory kanna taken by the purple tang.. and nx day my purple kanna white spot so is my Yellow tang..

within 1 day.. i back from work... my yellow tang die...

what had actually happened... dont think ich will kill a fish within 1 day right...

[FuEl]

Your tangs had a scapel skirmish.

[sjsheng]

what do u mean.. the body like grow thinner... like kanna punch like that... slim down...

[reefer guy]

... in the first place, i dont think yt and pt should be mixed together if one has established territory..... it's murder...

[sjsheng]

izzit true... after the territory is taken they will stress to die.. ???

[reefer guy]

most fishes when stressed are more susceptible to diseases

[sjsheng]

so serious huh.. if territory kanna taken they will die..

die of what... 1 day only leh...

[terryansimon]

die of stress. possible you know.

lost my clowns due to stress and not being able to acclimatise. oh well.

[sjsheng]

die of stress. possible you know.

lost my clowns due to stress and not being able to acclimatise. oh well.

now then i know this is so serious.. and will kill the fish in 1 day...

[terryansimon]

its possible if the fish was sick prior to that already.

[sjsheng]

i think 1 of the problem is the YT is on its way to recover from ich... that happened afew day ago...

[DeepBlue]

I have introduced a few tangs into my tank over the stretch of more than 6months...one of the them is a purple tang 6 months after the yellow tang was introduced.

As predicted...my YT was relentless is wacking the purple....that's why I got the PT that is bigger than the YT, aclimatised in my q tank until I am sure it is well from the shipment and stress..then I introduced it to the main tank...

after 2 days....it established itself and now is doing alright and my YT doesnt harress it more.

Putting a mirror will also help to distract the established ones as well....

The rule to most tangs, unless you are getting mild ones like choc surgeon tangs or kole....should try to add one that is bigger....and definitely need to qurantine it as once ich breaks out, the rest might get it too

hope what I shared is helpful

[sjsheng]

my YT was with me about 2 weeks.. and just recover from ich... then i get this purple tang... kaoz..

1 come 1 die...

now my purple tang kanna white spots.. but slowly get use to the surrounding.. poking the sandbed and live rock... and eating well with brine shrimp soaked with garlic xtreme..

i think that a chance recover from white spots...

my YT n PT are the same size... that the problem...

[Dispar_Anthias]

Hey IMo you should read up more before buying a fish which might bring harm to your existing tank inhabitant or to the fish itself. If your tank is small you should never put 2 zebrasoma species of tang togetehr in the same tank. There goes the same for acanthurus and naso(They are abit more sociable).

[sjsheng]

what about blue tang... can mix with purple tang... i think can right..

cause PT and YT are same shape..

[SpiderOne]

as long as it continues to eat garlic soaked food for the time being. it will be ok. work on your other water parameters. ich once again is basically caused by stress.

re: other questions.

what is the size of your tank

[sjsheng]

it a 40 gallon tank...

[reefer guy]

kinda small tank to keep tangs..... pity the species coz they need lots of swimming space...

[sjsheng]

yah... but no choice.. anyway i going to upgrade my tank... so just to keep it for the time being...

maybe getting a 3ftx2ftx2.5ft ... 112 gallon tank...

[reefer guy]

y dont u go for 4x2x2? think it would be enough..... 2.5ft deep is really hard to aquascape... just for my 2ft tank deep, my whole arm is almost submerged....

[sjsheng]

well for 4ft i think is really huge ...

cause i only wanted to keep tang.... is 3ftx2ftx2ft enough??? u noe the price with sump n pipe?

[reefer guy]

inquire.... maybe ask tank_maker from arofanatics.com....

[sjsheng]

yah.. i just PM him... thanks alot...

dunno hw much will it cost.. if more then 500... i rather go for bro riodan tank maker...

cause he build his 4ftx2ftx2ft tank for $500+

but unsure izzit come with pipe...

i dont think i will be getting the cabinet too... get iron stand... cabinet will cut a hole in my pocket...

[terryansimon]

roidan got it at such a price because it didn't come with a cabinet.

by the way, roidan got his made with tank_maker as well if I am not wrong.

[roidan]

yeah lor..i only got the tanks from him...if u want cabinet or even stand...will cost more than 700 definitely....