feeding frenzy

Maybe a little overstocked but he obviously isn't some clueless newbie with those dellicate angels, powder blues and achilles. I definately can't be dissin that setup.
 
Wow, that's a lot of nice fish. Thanks for taking the time to add them to photobucket. It is pretty amazing how healthy all the fish look and how clean the tank is in the pictures. Nice job!
 
Thanks man. I like to see tanks with lots of pretty fish like that in good health, which, with some of the fish you have is not easy.
 
Nice...... do you Quarantine? With all the Tangs , are you running a little copper in the tank ?. I only have four large Tangs in my tank they been in the tank many years i have my Yellow tang now for 14 years but i get some parasites here and there always clears out with out any medication not that i'm able to use any it is ( full of corals) but with all the tangs in there it most be challenging to keep the Ick out of your tank.
Anyway nice fish you have ... :thumbsup:
 
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Nice...... do you Quarantine? With all the Tangs , are you running a little copper in the tank ?. I only have four large Tangs in my tank they been in the tank many years i have my Yellow tang now for 14 years but i get some parasites here and there always clears out with out any medication not that i'm able to use any it is ( full of corals) but with all the tangs in there it most be challenging to keep the Ick out of your tank.
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i never quarantined any of my fish and never will. i don't run any copper in the tank as i wanna keep my option to keep some corals again someday. some of my fish do get cloudy eye and a little ick sometimes but i just do a 50g water change and it's all gone the next day. i think the secret to my success is that at the beginning i was able to get my tangs to eat anti-parasitic pellets right after a couple of days from obtaining them. i've kinda proven it to myself several times that if i could get this fish to eat pellets then it's pretty much gonna survive and be healthy. i also feed a LOT and soak every food in selcon and vitachem. i even soak pellets in selcon and vitachem then let the pellets absorb all of it and then let it dry under my t5s (stinks a lot but keeps my fish fat and healthy).
 
Were the fish being fed when taking that video? Couldn't tell if the particles in the water were food or just particles...

They looked pretty anxious and stressed, to be honest. They were all circling around each other in the same spot... Were they eating, or is that how they normally are?

I wouldn't imagine that you would have aggression problems, because with so many Tangs in a "small" space (at least compared to how many Tangs you have and how large they are) they simply can't form a "pecking order." Too much confusion.

I hope I'm not coming off as part of the notorious "Tang Police" as I don't have a Tang, and won't have one until I have a tank large enough, but IMHO, that is too many Tangs for the tank. I can't fathom putting 18 Tangs in a tank that small, but I digress.

They are gorgeous, and I'm sure the tank meets your satisfication standards...

And for the record, Achilles Tangs do not seem to be as "fragile" as they're noted to be; at least not any that I have observed.

For example, the office my fiancee works at has a 75 gallon tank with a Yellow Tang, Achilles Tang, Spotted Grouper, Blue-Jaw Trigger, Fire Clown and Blue Devil Damsel. They've had those fish for over a year and a half with no water changes, hardly ever checking parameters, etc. and those fish get fatter and larger every week... Maybe they're just lucky?

Anyway, have a great day! :)
 
I love the tank. Looks well kept. Yes, you can see that he is feeding either brine or mysis. They all look healthy and happy to me.
 
cool, taht hermit is badass, Id loike to do one or two of those in my 75g FOWLR since my picasso will likely attack smaller stuff. How big is that hermit and where can you get some online?:eek2:
 
Thanks to all three people who reminded me that it is indeed food in the water :D Went to Starbucks, got my coffee, and all is well! Apparently had a brain freeze in my last post and meant "satisfaction," not "satisfication." I read that and was like, "WTH?" ;)

I still stand by my opinion that there are too many Tangs in the tank. I think three or four, maybe, but not eighteen.

To each his own :cool:
 
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