Buddy is buying a tang

[aznflyfisherman]

He will learn his lesson, once the blue tang gets ick n spread ick to the rest of his fish, then might not have any fish left. Good luck to your buddy...

 

[anthonys51]

He will learn his lesson, once the blue tang gets ick n spread ick to the rest of his fish, then might not have any fish left. Good luck to your buddy...

little tanks dont cause ich, ich causes ich. putting a hippo in a 1000 gallon tank with out qt or ttm first can give your tank ich.

only reason to not put a hippo in a small tank is because your setting yourself up to fail.

this fish grows to big and needs to much open room to swim to be housed in a small tank. now if you are an expert and want to push the limits a little, i am ok with that. but someone new to the hobby shouldnt try something that most experts will still fail at

 

[ericarenee]

as others have said this is a Bad idea.

the whole flawed logic about "the fish is better off in his/my tank that is bigger then at the LFS Is very bad.

If people stop buying them LFS Will Stop buying them to sell. even a yellow or scopes tank is too big for his tank..

He is way out of his element and needs to slow down and think..

Just my opinion..

 

[rygar]

Chances are your LFS will ask him what size tank he has and talk him out of it...or simply refuse to sell it to him. One of our LFS does that. For a big angel, they require you to have a 240 or larger. For a blue tang, I believe it's a 180 or larger.

 

[ColoReefer970]

That's a good LFS....I use things like 20g tanks full of baby blues to feel them out. You can tell real quick what kind of place you're dealing with by asking how much space they need

 

[Joe0813]

your friend should find a new hobby.... maybe working on cars or building RC air planes