clown tang

[roushmustang]

ive been reading about the clown tangs lately and noticed that they can get pretty aggresive.

if i was to buy a very small one and put it in the tank last, would it still be very aggressive if i have fish that can hold its own.

will it eat my baby 1/2 maroon clown when it gets a little bit bigger?

 

[roushmustang]

im not buying it but it is possibly under consideration for the last fish added

can you post pics of yours also?
thanks-dan

 

[Toddrtrex]

This fish is very difficult to keep, and require at least an 8 foot tank.

 

[snorvich]

This fish is very difficult to keep, and require at least an 8 foot tank.

And an expert aquarist which the original poster is not.

 

[roushmustang]

looks like thats a no then. thanks

how is it difficult to keep? just trying to get it to eat prepared foods and pellets and all of that stuff.
and arent all tangs considered to get diseases easily in the home aquarium

 

[snorvich]

Well, first of all, you have a 90 gallon tank and the recommended tank size for this is 240 gallons. Getting them to eat is difficult even for an expert aquarist. Finally, as they grow, they get progressively more aggressive and kill fish. The smaller the tank, the greater the aggression. And yes, all fish, especially tangs, should be quarantined and you don't have one.

 

[palmer373]

And an expert aquarist which the original poster is not.

im not argueing that its a difficult fish to keep but where is this boundary of 'expert' and 'noob' begin?

 

[screwsloose]

clowns and sohals are both considered aggressive and in my experience with the sohal i have i wouldnt add one to any tank under 400 gls and only would if it were the last fish to go into the tank. i added a small sohal 3" to my tank and it killed my achilles tang within 3 weeks. it is now 5" and runs the tank and will not allow anything new to be introduced.

 

[snorvich]

im not argueing that its a difficult fish to keep but where is this boundary of 'expert' and 'noob' begin?

Well, an expert is not 3 months "experience".

 

[snorvich]

clowns and sohals are both considered aggressive and in my experience with the sohal i have i wouldnt add one to any tank under 400 gls and only would if it were the last fish to go into the tank. i added a small sohal 3" to my tank and it killed my achilles tang within 3 weeks. it is now 5" and runs the tank and will not allow anything new to be introduced.

Unfortunately, I have experience with a Sohal. I had one in a tank that was 350 gallons and had to remove it. It was NOT fully grown. Gorgeous but vicious fish.

 

[palmer373]

Well, an expert is not 3 months "experience".

works for me, thanks.

 

[AfricaOffroad]

Funnily enough a few days ago I caught and added a small lineatus to my tank.
Got a big Sohal in there and a few other tangs - purple, dussumeri, olivaceus, yellow, sailfin, nigrofuscus.
None of them even looked at the lineatus because its so much smaller than them.

The one fish that did take a noticeable exception is my fairy wrasse - rubriventralis, who the heck would have guessed.

I've never seen this before, but within a day of being caught, the clown is taking any frozen food I feed the tank with. Also pecks actively on the algae - which is good because I have a bit of a GHA problem at the moment. Some fish adapt extremely well, others never do. My one is an exception, because as previously posted, they can be hard fish to get to feed properly in a tank

Going a bit off topic, but it proves the point above, a few weeks ago I caught two biggish lunulas a few days apart from the same pool.
One is a voracious eater, the other hardly touches anything I put in the tank. In this case, the latter fish is the exception to the experience of most.