KrautBurner
too "edgy" for this place
can I have a 3" blue hippo tang with a 3" powder brown tang?
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El Salvador
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Dont do it to the fish and yourself.
You have a 75G tank right?? You should not keep more then one of each. The blue hippo get large fast. 6 of them will put to much of a bio load on your system.
Plus tang get sick fast if anything gos wrong with your system.
If I were you.. I would get only one of each.
Hell... Just get a brown powder Tang and a Blue powder tang.
I have 85G system and I only house one Purple Tang.
Nice start with your system.
You have a 75G tank right?? You should not keep more then one of each. The blue hippo get large fast. 6 of them will put to much of a bio load on your system.
Plus tang get sick fast if anything gos wrong with your system.
If I were you.. I would get only one of each.
Hell... Just get a brown powder Tang and a Blue powder tang.
I have 85G system and I only house one Purple Tang.
Nice start with your system.
mark peacock
marine67
Yes i would go with a 3'' hippo and a 3''brown tang not 6 lol.
KrautBurner
too "edgy" for this place
If I were you.. I would get only one of each.
Hell... Just get a brown powder Tang and a Blue powder tang.
Nice start with your system.
thanks,
I've already got a single 3" blue hippo,
I'd like to add one or two more tangs (as long as they should get along)
the ones I think I like (and seem to be ok for my tank size) are the Powder Brown, Powder Blue, and the Yellow.
I'm not sure how much I can get away with
I currently have 4 fish:
a 3" blue hippo tang
a small pair of gsm clowns
a 3" midas blenni
and a 3" GBT Anemone (looks to be splitting)
I don't think you have to worry about what you may or may not 'get away with' since the 75g aquarium is not suitable for any tang over 2". Tangs require length of tank and that length begins at 6 feet. The 125 can house two Acanthurus sp. tangs pretty well. The 180 can house up to 4 of this group, 5 would be pushing it until they get too large for this display then one or two would have to go.
Acquire tangs based upon their adult size and needs for swimming length and you won't have to worry about 'getting away' with anything.
I would recommend you familiarize yourself with stocking limit recommendations given here: Fish Stocking Limit – for FO and FOWLR. Books and retail sites are not a very good source for advising stocking limits for reasons given in the above post.
Hobbyists are at odds with what they want vs. what is needed for the marine life. But if you want to have your tang for a long and healthy life, you'll need to provide the space it needs. . .now.
Good luck!
Acquire tangs based upon their adult size and needs for swimming length and you won't have to worry about 'getting away' with anything.
I would recommend you familiarize yourself with stocking limit recommendations given here: Fish Stocking Limit – for FO and FOWLR. Books and retail sites are not a very good source for advising stocking limits for reasons given in the above post.
Hobbyists are at odds with what they want vs. what is needed for the marine life. But if you want to have your tang for a long and healthy life, you'll need to provide the space it needs. . .now.
Good luck!
krisfal
Well-known member
IMO 3 tangs in a 75g will quickly grow to be too much of a bioload. I am in the process of upgrading to a 400g because I have 4 tangs and an angel in my 130 and it is too much! Because tangs as they mature pretty much become herbivores, and herbivores must consume a lot of food to get the nutrition they need, as a result they also make a lot of "waste". In the last 6 months I have had to do 30% water changes weekly (sometimes 2X a week) just to keep my nitrates below 10, as a result of fighting to keep nitrates at a moderate level (far from perfect SPS conditions) my coral have been suffering. If I had to do it over again I would only have put 2 tangs into the 130g (or bought a bigger tank sooner).
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KrautBurner
too "edgy" for this place
I don't think you have to worry about what you may or may not 'get away with' since the 75g aquarium is not suitable for any tang over 2". Tangs require length of tank and that length begins at 6 feet. The 125 can house two Acanthurus sp. tangs pretty well. The 180 can house up to 4 of this group, 5 would be pushing it until they get too large for this display then one or two would have to go.
Acquire tangs based upon their adult size and needs for swimming length and you won't have to worry about 'getting away' with anything.
that's why I didn't ask over at saltwaterfish.com
"anything smaller than the ocean itself is too small for marine fish"
as far as acquiring tangs based upon their adult size,
I keep reading that no marine fish ever stops growing (well, til it dies)
I understand that the fish could outgrow my tank, and hopefully I will have a larger tank by then. realisticly I would would be donated anything that's too cramped in my tank to someone with a larger tank.
the question in the thread is "are the tangs gonna get along?"
I've read that they should be fine if they are different shapes, which they are
is this the truth?
balogh03
Well-known member
Now the question is...when is this? When does a fish technically "outgrow" a tank? I guess it would depend on who you are. As far as combatibility goes, I have a 6" and a 5" pacific blue tang (which i might add was about 2-3" about 2yrs ago and have just now slowed way down on their growing), and a flame fin tomini, with none every showing agression. Normally, as long as you add them in the right order you shouldn't have a problem.
Best of luck to you
-augustus
