2 tangs in a 90?

My 2 may be the exception and not the rule. I have a Blue Hippo around 5" and a sail fin roughly 6 1/2" in a 48x30x30 ( 180 Gal ) reef tank.
Maybe they are the exception and not the rule, but they are more like best buddies as opposed to enemies. They are always together and I have never seen them fight.
Could it possibly due to their shape as well as coloration, that they get along so well?
 
Possibly due to their level of maturity. Fish have a way of hitting a 'point' which makes no particular sense, but apparently somebody gets ticked and it goes south from there. In my gradschool days, I walked into the National Aquarium (which at the time was in the basement of the Commerce Building)---and the piranha tank was like fish stew--pieces of large fish floating everywhere. The keepers were at a loss, trying to figure why fish who had lived together for years suddenly went bozo and left only a couple of survivors. LFS had a rabbit suddenly, after years, decide hammer coral looked delicious. Our 'little' tanks are a kind of stress in themselves. Best not to make them more so.
 
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