your longest living powder blue

[david pinder]

Running 3 large tanks and have over a hundred fish but never been able to keep a powder blue more than 6 mo. Wondering if any one has kept one for years.

[altolamprologus]

I know a guy who has one for about 6 years in his 340 gallon. Really the only trick is a big tank with a lot of flow and stuff to graze on. They're a surge zone species so if you mimic their natural environment they seem to do just fine long term.

[david pinder]

Ive been putting them in a 350 with lots of grass & rock,would be doing great one day eating and fat and then gone overnight. Think I will try my 700 reef has a lot more flow but very little green to forge on

[ag09g]

I had one for 3 years in a 135. Always healthy and fat from the day I got her. Unfortunately a water change with what im assuming must have been tainted water killed every fish in my tank, including the powder blue, within hours :(

[havoc79]

i have had mine a couple of years now and don't do anything out of the ordnary for him he is in a hundred gallon tank and i will be moving him into a two hundred shortly i think achilles are the ones that need lots of flow but i may be wrong

[hobbzz]

Sorry I don't have an answer, but what fish is in your Sig ag09g?

[havoc79]

that sucks ago9g

[hybridazn]

I've had my powder blue for 6 years in December. Lives in my 180 gallon reef

[david pinder]

My reef is crying for one ya have talked me into it. Just ordered a uv yesterday soon as I get it set up Ill start looking for one.

[ag09g]

@hobbzz I tried to send you a pm but Im not sure it went through, if so im sorry, if not hes an ember blenny (Cirripectes stigmaticus) :)

and i agree with havoc, I never did anything special for mine either. We didnt have great flow in the tank, not to mention a higher than wanted nitrate level, and she never seemed sick or stressed for the time we had her.
Heres a video of her a few months before "the incident" so you can decide whether she looks healthy or not :O
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af5-V42j8UY&feature=plcp

[geaux xman]

I have 2. One in my 180g for a little over a yr. A tad bigger than 6". The other I've considered sticking it in the 180g too, but I dont want to risk messing with the harmony in the tank... Its in my 72g, about 4".

http://youtu.be/T7a19h1S5Bk?hd=1

I think key is keeping the tank parasite free.

[lighthouze08]

i got a blue tang that i bought from a guy, i think he had it in his tank for a few yrs before he sold it to me. Its been with me for the last 3 yrs

[SDguy]

I've had my PBT since '06. She lives in a 150g reef.

[michaelkittrell]

I had one that lived for 5 years. 3 with my father in law, then I had him for 2.

I fed nori weekly, brine shrimp couple times a week and omega 1 pellets the rest of the time.

[solitude127]

Mine has been in my tank for 3 years now. I don't know if it's helpful or not but I have a neon goby which my PBT visits often for a cleaning as well as my other fish