added a new Sailfin tang tonight

[Im Lon 2]

And my blue Kole tang and powder brown are really PO'ed.. I thought my Kole tang was going to be an issue but didn't think the Power Brown would be like that. How long does it before these guys will not be so mean. They are all around the same size 3-4".

I also added a Copper banded I have been watching eat for a week now. They don't like him either

I put them both in the tank at the same time hoping that it would distract the other tangs.. I was wrong..

I feed the tank life Brine before and after adding the new fish, I also added frozen Mysis after adding them.

The good thing is the CB was eating both the live brine and frozen Mysis.

after about 5min's I turned out the lights hoping that will calm everyone down for a while.

I'm thinking about turning the lights back on in about 15 min's for a couple of min's, and repeating that for an hour or so hoping that the fish will get use to them.

 

[Reggae Fish]

Are the powder browns as aggressive to other tangs as the powder blues? If so, there will be problems

 

[Im Lon 2]

They calmed down quite a bit last night. My Kole tang stop bothering the two new fish for the most part and started chasing the powder brown. Both fish were fine this morning, the Sailfin's fins where a little messed up, nothing major.

I'm leaving the lights off till I get home tonight, that seemed to help quite a bit last night turning the lights off and on every 10 mins giving everyone a break when the lights were out.

 

[Dert42]

my sailfin is my favorite fish. good luck!

 

[Im Lon 2]

One of mine too! I know he is healthy. I have watched him for over a month and a half. Now I just have to make sure I can get them not to stress him out.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Here is the new fish!

Everyone seems to be a lot happier tonight. The powder brown is still bothering both of them a little but not no where near as bad.

 

[JxMetal]

I like the tattered fin design on the tang. :lol: those guys really got him good. Are they doing better now?

 

[Im Lon 2]

Yes it seems everyone is starting to swim the tank with out being chased off... No wait... I typed to soon The good thing now is the are just chasing them off and not tagging them like last night.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Yeah the fins are a little messed up.. He was in great shape prior to me buying him. I have been watching him for the last month and half to make sure it was doing good.

I have been wondering if I was to make some type of acrylic hang on, kind of what they do for betta's in fresh water but much bigger so the fish can at least see each other and get use to each other for a couple of days. before releasing them do you thing that would work any?

I don't know how Kurt does it.

 

[trottman]

my Powder brown is not mean toward any fish

he is kinda like my 6 line

supposed to be real mean.... but they both fly solo not bothering a think

 

[Mr.Firemouth]

lon, where did you get the sailfin from?
I picked mine up Sunday from Jan at Clayton Pets.

 

[Im Lon 2]

I picked mine up from Nemo Pets right down the road for me. He has had him for over a month and a half. He is about 3"

 

[JxMetal]

They're doing good over there at Nemo's. I was there about a month ago. Is Tom(I think that was his name) still in charge of the fish?

 

[Im Lon 2]

Tom is not in charge of anything.. Tom just started working back at the store about 2 weeks.. The plan on adding 6 more tanks some time in the next few months then once those are running good he is going to open up 6 more..

Every time he gets on top of things a little he goes through a power outage.. He was out again for over week durning that storm.

 

[JxMetal]

Yeah I remember you saying something about them adding more coral tanks.

 

[Mr.Firemouth]

Dan is a great guy! Has an awesome blueberry gorgonian right now! Just got in a regal angel too! He has a nice colony of purple moons people eaters too!

I don't know if any of you know it or not but Dan also got in the PFO LED light system!!!!

I will be running a complete start to finish thread on my page about this light! I can't wait for him to upgrade a couple of things like skimmer and flow on the coral tanks!

He is building a brand new system for the PFO light! I think it is a 120 show oceanic starfire tank! I hope he takes my advice and goes big on the skimmer and does jist SPS in that tank!!!

 

[Im Lon 2]

Yeah I'm in there about 4 time a week talking to him too. I forgot to ask about that light he said he was getting it a couple of weeks ago. I have been trying to get him to go more with SPS for a long time now.

 

[Mr.Firemouth]

those guys have their hands full being a full line pet shop so SPS is a little harder for them. Dan works a full time job like we do too.
I think the aquarium dept. is doing better since they hired Eric.

Eric used to work at Midwest Marine. I used to volenteer there on weekends to help Brian out. That store had huge potential he just had too many outside problems.

My system just finished cycling and my next 3 boxes of rock will be the premium coral encrusted from TBS. If the system was full rocked and cycled I would of gave half the tank to the Magnifica Anemone they have right now at Nemo's. IT could host 6 clowns!!!

I have a killer 180g thread about my build at my site. Lots of pics.
I would repost it here but its like 5 pages long.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Dan would have more time if he didn't own a TanSpa, and a ton of rental property too. But the full time job on all that is crazy. He runs nonstop.