Can Different Tangs Breed?

[JCOLE]

I have a Sailfin tang,Yellow Tang,and a Blue Tang, over the past month my sailfin tang has gotten extremely large, the belly has blown up to about twice its size. It eats normally.

Im just curious if its possible, if anyone has ever heard of this please let me know

 

[green_frogspawn]

i highly doubt it

 

[green_frogspawn]

oh and also sorry to be the tang police but that tank is WAAAYYYY too small for a blue tang and yellow and a sailfin, i would say only have the yellow in there at the most.... how big are they?

 

[acroporas]

Tangs (as well as nearly every other saltwater fish) do not get pregnant.

When it is time tangs to spawn, a bunch of them all get to gether in the water column and spew their gametes into the water column. With luck, a sperm find will an egg and fertilize it. The eggs float toward the surface and live as plancton for a few months.

While it is possible that your sailfin tang is holding eggs. Though a mature sailfin tang would be HUGE in a 75 gallon tank. Like hard to turn around huge. Plus in my experience tangs do not look noticably different when carying eggs. Many species spawn every day through the summer so they are always carying eggs.

I suspect your tang has found a new food sourse. You said that feeding is normal. Assuming that means you aren't feeding it more than normal. Perhaps algae growth has exploded compaired to in the past. Or someone else is doing you a favor and feeding the fish for you when you aren't around. Do you have kids?

or it is sick. Perhaps an internal parasite or some kind of infection is causing the belly to swell.

 

[JCOLE]

yeah i just recently started using the algae strips with the clip, and i started to notic it around the same time. none of the fish would eat it, but the next morning it would be completely gone, i am thinking the sailfin is eating it overnight.

 

[green_frogspawn]

are you going to be updating your tank soon?