nuxx
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Hey guys I have a quick question for all of you :spin3:
My tank has been up for a couple of months and is very tang heavy since I had existing tangs and wanted to introduce the bulk of the tangs I plan to keep together.
The tank is 120x29x31" ~ 470 gallons with a ~ 200 gallon sump/fuge.
Tank has tons of flow and around 500 lbs of rock + 240 lbs of sand.
Right now my fish list is from largest to smallest:
1 - Black Tang (5")
1 - Yellow Bellied Blue Tang (3.5")
1 - Yellow Tang (3.5")
1 - Tomini Tang (3")
1 - Purple Tang (2.5")
1 - Chevron Tang (2.5")
1 - Cleaner Wrasse (2.5")
1 - Black Ice Clown (2")
3 - Pajama Cardinals (1.5")
I plan on running hyposalinity in the next week or so, since I've seen a few Ich spots on the YB Blue Tang. All gone, were around for a week. I quarantined everything, but didn't do hypo/tank transfer/copper. More observation for 5-8 weeks and prazipro treatments. Guess stress was low and nothing popped up. Lesson learned... I've removed my shrimp and am taking out snails as I grab them. No coral yet... so hypo seems like a good insurance policy.
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I've noticed nipped fins on the Chevron, Purple and Black Tangs. No scalpel marks though... just nipping from chasing.
The Black chases the Purple around every now and then. I wouldn't say it's a "I'm going to kill you!" chase, more of a get away from me chase. I'd think there would be tail slapping if they were really upset with each other.
Since my tank is so tang heavy now... I was curious if adding fish such as schools of smaller fish like Anthias (After QT), would get the attention of the tangs and maybe reduce some of these chases.
Was also thinking adding larger fish like a Crosshatch Trigger pair might introduce new dominate fish that would calm things down, but would be worried about adding smaller fish after the triggers had been in the tank.
Looking at adding two more Acanthurus tangs down the line to finish the tangs in the tank, but not too soon.
Would love to hear what you guys think about additional fish that might take some attention away and maybe reduce some of the chasing and nipping.
Also... I use 3 rocks with nori on them (in the morning) in different places of the tank. But the dominant tangs just go from rock to rock, never sticking to one... so that doesn't really help with feeding aggression. I do put flakes in later in the day, and there is no aggression during that feeding. Any tips on the nori sheet situation?
Thanks guys! :beer:
My tank has been up for a couple of months and is very tang heavy since I had existing tangs and wanted to introduce the bulk of the tangs I plan to keep together.
The tank is 120x29x31" ~ 470 gallons with a ~ 200 gallon sump/fuge.
Tank has tons of flow and around 500 lbs of rock + 240 lbs of sand.
Right now my fish list is from largest to smallest:
1 - Black Tang (5")
1 - Yellow Bellied Blue Tang (3.5")
1 - Yellow Tang (3.5")
1 - Tomini Tang (3")
1 - Purple Tang (2.5")
1 - Chevron Tang (2.5")
1 - Cleaner Wrasse (2.5")
1 - Black Ice Clown (2")
3 - Pajama Cardinals (1.5")
I plan on running hyposalinity in the next week or so, since I've seen a few Ich spots on the YB Blue Tang. All gone, were around for a week. I quarantined everything, but didn't do hypo/tank transfer/copper. More observation for 5-8 weeks and prazipro treatments. Guess stress was low and nothing popped up. Lesson learned... I've removed my shrimp and am taking out snails as I grab them. No coral yet... so hypo seems like a good insurance policy.
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Back to the topic...
I've noticed nipped fins on the Chevron, Purple and Black Tangs. No scalpel marks though... just nipping from chasing.
The Black chases the Purple around every now and then. I wouldn't say it's a "I'm going to kill you!" chase, more of a get away from me chase. I'd think there would be tail slapping if they were really upset with each other.
Since my tank is so tang heavy now... I was curious if adding fish such as schools of smaller fish like Anthias (After QT), would get the attention of the tangs and maybe reduce some of these chases.
Was also thinking adding larger fish like a Crosshatch Trigger pair might introduce new dominate fish that would calm things down, but would be worried about adding smaller fish after the triggers had been in the tank.
Looking at adding two more Acanthurus tangs down the line to finish the tangs in the tank, but not too soon.
Would love to hear what you guys think about additional fish that might take some attention away and maybe reduce some of the chasing and nipping.
Also... I use 3 rocks with nori on them (in the morning) in different places of the tank. But the dominant tangs just go from rock to rock, never sticking to one... so that doesn't really help with feeding aggression. I do put flakes in later in the day, and there is no aggression during that feeding. Any tips on the nori sheet situation?
Thanks guys! :beer:
