Doctor Tang

[jdemarco]

Anyone here "have" or "know of" someone who has a Doctor Tang (Acanthrus Chirurgus) ???? My real quetion is whethere or not people have had succes with different genus of tangs being able to coexist together in a tank life......for example if you have two tangs of different genus and wanted a third tank of a third and different genus, good chance they do ok???

(besides the territorial aspectof course of the current two already being setlled into the tank) I know it would have been better to add all three at once but thats in the past) I am looking to add this fish (Doctor Tang) to a tank with blue hipppo(paracanthurus) and yellow tang(zebrasoma) who have been in for about 6 months......any thoughts?

 

[jbishop]

I have 4 tangs in my tank.

Tomini, Blue Hippo, Gold Rim, Kole

I plan on adding at least one more but maybe two. The only issue I have ever had was the Tomini beating on a new one. I don't think this is a tang dependent thing, as he beats on ANY new fish that comes into the system. After a day or two of this everyone is happy again... At least in my experience.

 

[jdemarco]

how big is tank.....i have 110 with lots and lots of rock work. does it help to be of different genus? what kinds do you have living together...

 

[jayman10134]

i would say it should be fine as long as it in at least the size of the tangs you have in your tank right now.

 

[jbishop]

how big is tank.....i have 110 with lots and lots of rock work. does it help to be of different genus? what kinds do you have living together...

Mine is a 155gal with medium amount of rock work.

Tomini, Blue Hippo, Gold Rim, Kole tangs

i would say it should be fine as long as it in at least the size of the tangs you have in your tank right now.

I added both the kole and the goldrim when they were considerably smaller then the other two.

 

[jdemarco]

my blue hippo is the boss and is biggest, the yellow is the most territorial and the kole i have is the most docile of the 3....pretty much just like the books would have predicted....so deciding whether or not this guy will work out for me.

 

[JohnK]

Is the 110G tank in your sig? If so, that's a 4' tank, correct?

Assuming it is a 4' tank, I would not suggest adding a third tang (or the second for that matter). Tangs are swimmers, and territorial. You can crowd them in, but their health will suffer over time.

 

[jdemarco]

Thanks.....for the input

 

[Behrmon]

I'd also say that if it is a 4' tank then regardless of how they might get along otherwise, 4 of them prob would stress each other out, esp one that can get pretty large.

You have 3 now right? "Tang s-BHippo,Kole,Yellow"

I kept 2 in a 4' 150, PBT & Yellow and they seemed to get in eachothers way here and there.

 

[Cjtabares]

I have always been told that length of a tank is more important they your volume when it comes to tangs. One guy I know says he would never put a tang in a tank less then 72'' long, he says they do not act like they do in the wild in anything smaller. IDK how true that is i have never seen them in the wild, but i have seen tangs in smaller tanks that seem happy. I have a 72" 100gal and i only want to add one more, maybe 2 if i go with smaller tangs.