Mixing tangs on large tank

[acorral]

Hello

I know that many people have successfully kept small tang schools in large reef tanks and I am looking forward to do that.

I have a 400 gallon reef with 100 gallon additional sump volume...

I have a yellow tang, blue hippo tang and kole tank that have been there for 4 years, 3 months ago I added a desjardini sailfin tang and after a few days of agression everything settled...

I would like to add 6 more scopas tangs, or maybe 3 yellow and 3 scopas... All together at the same time.

Would it work? or would it be a recipe for disaster ?

Anybody with similar experience?

[ycnibrc]

if you can add bigger size fish than the one you have in the tank then you should be ok to add all 6 fishes at 1 time. The old fish will get confuse which one to pick on but they will pick on one and if that one is bigger then it can defend against the bully.

[SPotter]

if you can add bigger size fish than the one you have in the tank then you should be ok to add all 6 fishes at 1 time. The old fish will get confuse which one to pick on but they will pick on one and if that one is bigger then it can defend against the bully.

+1

[moriarty]

The biggest problem I had with adding my 5 yellow tangs was QT. They would single one fish out and bully it to the point where I had to add a divider. I had to repeat this for each tang, and eventually wound up with a QT divided into 5 sections, which really didn't leave much open swimming space. Just something you might want to plan for...

Now that they are in my pond, They aren't aggressive toward each other (or any of the other tangs) at all. They stayed in a group for the first few days, but now the only time I see them all together is when I feed nori.


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=9382&pictureid=66399

[acorral]

if you can add bigger size fish than the one you have in the tank then you should be ok to add all 6 fishes at 1 time. The old fish will get confuse which one to pick on but they will pick on one and if that one is bigger then it can defend against the bully.


Thank you

They are already L size so that will be hard to do... Was planning on medium but will look for this option and make them large also...

[acorral]

The biggest problem I had with adding my 5 yellow tangs was QT. They would single one fish out and bully it to the point where I had to add a divider. I had to repeat this for each tang, and eventually wound up with a QT divided into 5 sections, which really didn't leave much open swimming space. Just something you might want to plan for...

Now that they are in my pond, They aren't aggressive toward each other (or any of the other tangs) at all. They stayed in a group for the first few days, but now the only time I see them all together is when I feed nori.


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=9382&pictureid=66399

Thank you!!

Great pond !!!

I have a 50 gallon established FOWLR tank with just 3 little fish with a sump with two empty compartments... So i was planning on placing them there some at the display and some at the sump... If the ones on the display dtart dighting then use dividers...

[Betta132]

Is the 50g/sump your quarantine? Why does it have fish in it?

[acorral]

It is not a QT per se, it is just a spare tank i have in the house to test some algae stuff... But happens to be in the perfect state to be something like a qt...

[acorral]

QT has begun !!!

https://vimeo.com/110615222

Already loaded with eggcrate and space on the sump in case I need to split a fight...

Wish me luck !

[acorral]

Another quick video:

http://youtu.be/uvR69mu45sU