powder blue tang add or nay

[jeffroberts1]

I would like to add a powder blue tang or clown tang, i have a red sea salfin, blue chin trigger, six line wrasse, maroon clown?

[Jerry W]

If this is for the 120 listed in your sig, I'd pass. The sailfin alone will outgrow the system. Clown tangs, if they survive (many don't) grow large and nasty. Actually, the pb would be better suited to that sized tank but I wouldn't add one with an established zebrasoma sp.

[creatine2k1]

Good Luck with the Clown tang! I have gone through 3 of them lasting no more than a week!

[jeffroberts1]

i have to get a tang because my first two fish hippos have started to eat my zoos and brains,and i have found them a new home, that is why im wanting a tang

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12595996#post12595996 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jerry W
If this is for the 120 listed in your sig, I'd pass. The sailfin alone will outgrow the system. Clown tangs, if they survive (many don't) grow large and nasty. Actually, the pb would be better suited to that sized tank but I wouldn't add one with an established zebrasoma sp.
ditto that advice.

[rodeo klown]

Clown tangs are beautiful fish but very difficult to keep. I too went through three of them until I realized that they are better off not kept in captivity. They're a strange species like mandrins or gonipora, which for one reason or another, only thrive in the wild.

[jeffroberts1]

thanks

[flyyyguy]

I ditto Jerrys advice as well...witht he excepotion of the PB necessarily being better suited to that size tank.

My 6 foot 225 seems too small for my PB on his friskier days. He is as, if not hte most active tang(as well as the meanest/most territorial) I have ever had and Ive had mos t of them at one time or ano ther including the sailfin.

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12596451#post12596451 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rodeo klown
Clown tangs are beautiful fish but very difficult to keep. I too went through three of them until I realized that they are better off not kept in captivity. They're a strange species like mandrins or gonipora, which for one reason or another, only thrive in the wild.
hi rk!
Make sure to introduce yourself in the Uptate Reef Society Forum here on Reef Central.
There are people with reproducing Goniopora and reproducing Mandarinfish around Rochester (and elsewhere!) ;)

[rodeo klown]

Cool! I'm not saying that these specimens can't be kept, only that they are difficult to keep and require more attention than other species.

[Reeftanks6]

Clown tangs are beautiful but they are just so hard to keep and they do get big. I mean the PBT would be a better choice if you ask me. I dont think the Sailfin will be a problem because they are known to be peaceful. I have a sailfin in my 90 and he doesnt bother anything in there. yes i know he will outgrow dont worry i will find him a better home when the time comes. But I think you could try to go with a PBT just make sure you qt him because you dont want ich in your tank with the tangs and everything.

[idareefer]

all good advise mentioned, I have a powder blue in my 8' 300, he lives with some wrasses, anthias, gramma, scool of blue eyed cardinals & a 6" naso, the PB is the boss of the tank period. but they require larger systems to thrive, your tank is to small for one & the fish will get nervous & super stressed.

[jcreefkeeper]

I'd agree on the recommendations here to only do so in a tank of 6 feet in length or greater.

[jeffroberts1]

thanks for the advice, could you add a purple tang or do you need to have three zebrasoma tangs to make it work? if that is true than my tank is too small.

[idareefer]

you can, however remember purples get to be good sized, I saw tons of them while scuba diving in the red sea, 8-10" in size, overall tangs do better in larger systems.

[sean48183]

Your sailfin will do fine in your 120g as I had one in a 50g for 2 years before I upgraded to a 150g. Like most saltwater fish they are very slow growers in captivity and will probably only reach half there wild size in captivity. However the 2 fish you want are pretty aggressive fish. The pbt is very aggressive and will give your sailfin a hard time. Instead of a wrasse what about a school of chromis or anthias or a dwarf angel of some type.