Adding tangs with Yellow Tang

[bucfan]

I have a yellow tang presently in my tank. I plan to add a small convict and yellow eye tang together. I've had the yellow 5 years and he just moved from my 100G to current tank. Thinking about going small with the new tangs so as to not freak the yellow out. Is that a risky proposition?

 

[Dmorty217]

Should of waited to transfer the yellow out of the 100g to the DT until you had the other two in the DT since I'm guessing the yellow tang is the largest

 

[bucfan]

Should of waited to transfer the yellow out of the 100g to the DT until you had the other two in the DT since I'm guessing the yellow tang is the largest

Could not do that since I took down the 100G and moved everything to the 200G the same day. Yes, the yellow tang will be the biggest.

 

[nuxx]

Hit or miss...

Introduced the Yellow, Black and Purple together. The Purple ended up being killed by the Yellow and Yellow Bellied Blue months and months later.

Also had the Yellow and Yellow Bellied Blue kill a Tomini a day after the purple was killed. Different body shape, go figure...

Now the other four tangs are all good with each other... just weird snapped over that 2 day period.

Going to add more tangs down the line but want to saturate the tank with more fish first... will do acclimate boxes and introduce multiple fish at once to try to reduce the attention to just one fish...

 

[Dmorty217]

Could not do that since I took down the 100G and moved everything to the 200G the same day. Yes, the yellow tang will be the biggest.

Got yeah, get some acclimation boxes then, biggest you can find. Ted and Wayne have some really cool ones and bigger than the average, not sure what brand they are

 

[TangingOut]

Mirror trick works well. At least when I added a yellow coris and the resident melanurus took exception. It supposedly works for tangs as well.

 

[nuxx]

Got yeah, get some acclimation boxes then, biggest you can find. Ted and Wayne have some really cool ones and bigger than the average, not sure what brand they are

Have you tried to build one?

Thinking of building a larger one... acrylic, glue and suction cups are cheap

 

[twon8]

Aquabox sells a fantastic acclimation box for around $70. I'd get one unless you want the yellow tang to kill the new additions

 

[Original DMx]

try rearranging rock if possible to make the yellow think he is in a new location and may not be as territorial.

 

[bucfan]

Would adding 3 tangs at the same time help by distracting the yellow? Or is it totally a risky thing adding any more tangs? Rearranging the rocks is out of the question. And not sure how the acclimation box would help since the yellow would go after them once I put them into the DT.

I am trying to add a few more fish to my DT. Current fish I have are: male bellus angel, magnificient foxface, 6 line wrasse, pajama cardinal, cleaner wrasse, pink spot watchman gobi, midas blenny, mollie miller, algae blenny, percula clown and of course the yellow tang. I plan to add a scotts wrasse and melanarus wrasse too in the next few weeks. Any other suggestions on what I could add if the tangs are a bad idea?

 

[CHSUB]

Got my 3 yellows from Live Aquaria today: YIKES, they are small. I guess my idea of small/medium is a lot different from LA. I would guess my medium purple tang is at least 5 times bigger than the yellows. These guys are not much bigger than my chromis. Not sure what I'm going to do, but I can't see how they would survive in my DT. I do, however, recall many years ago adding an orangeshoulder to a group of much large tangs and the other fish never bothered him. For now I have them in QT so I have time to at least get some weight on them, as they are skin and bones. Any ideas???

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here is the PT, hard to tell size from pics; but it's not close!!

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