Can you help ID this tang.... Ctenochaetus cyanocheilus?

[coryjac0b]

I keep mine with an orange shoulder, they were both added simultaneously. No aggression so far, i have added a few fish since adding him, a maroon clown and an Eibli Angel

 

[Ncastro1981]

mine is not so nice to new fish of similiar size. added a butterfly and they had some issues for a week. then they where fine. then i had to remove the butterfly due to its appitite for corals.... but was thinking about adding another and need reccomendations please

 

[coryjac0b]

what i have done in the past with aggression with tangs, is put a mirror on the front of the tank while the new addition adjusts.

 

[Ncastro1981]

sounds like an easy fix. what function does the mirror have? More images of fish cause the agression to be spread to those that are nonanimate?

 

[Gwynhidwy]

The mirror works because the aggressive tang will be most likely to go after fish that closely resemble itself, and you can't get much closer than a reflection. The hope is that the aggressive fish will leave the new fish alone while it is busy harassing its own reflection, allowing the newcomer time to settle in.

 

[coryjac0b]

well what i figure it does, is make the aggressor, more aggressive against his image, rather than the newly added fish.


I think of it this way, if you have an established yellow tang in the tank, and add another yellow tang and a blue hippo at the same time, the yellow is more likely to go after the newly added yellow tang, rather than the blue hippo. They are more aggressive to something that looks similar to them in appearance.

It has worked for me in the past, i would leave there a few hours a day, especially around feeding time. After a while he would forget the newly added fish was even there.

GL, HTH

 

[Ncastro1981]

great info