In the market for a tang

[Shobloth]

It would be going in a 55gal reef pond. Choices are: purple, sailfin, Kobe yellow eye, blue Caribbean, and yellow.

Desired factors are:
Hardiness
Beauty
Algae consumption

Thoughts?

 

[SPotter]

what exactly is a reef pond???? either way none of them are suitable for a 55g tank.

 

[pktech]

My thought is if you're gonna put it in with your angler?

 

[Shobloth]

No, I'm going to have a few of these ponds. It's shallow, so it has the equivalent area of an 80-100 gal

 

[Shobloth]

Reef pond

 

[SammyL]

I dont think you are going to get a lot of support for a Tang in that set up. They really need a lot of length to swim, most of us here believe at least 6 foot.

 

[Stevenliu9]

just a warning- while they are not known for it, but in such a shallow setting they might jump. and agree with everyone here, it's too small for tang despite being shallow and wide.

 

[Shobloth]

It's 6' wide...

 

[o2manyfish]

My calculations a 6' wide cylinder is 3" deep to be 55 gallons.

Somewhere it appears one of your numbers is off.

 

[sc50964]

I like Kobe

 

[fishhuman]

My calculations a 6' wide cylinder is 3" deep to be 55 gallons.

Somewhere it appears one of your numbers is off.

Sounds about right. And there's no possible way I would put a tang in a tank like that.

 

[Betta132]

Tangs need long space, not round space. There's rock in the middle of that thing to get in the way.
No tangs.

 

[Shobloth]

Well it's 17 deep so the person who sold it it me had the #s wrong then. There's a very cavernous cave behind the rock. Also the distortion on it is pretty crazy, from the top there is 8 inches from rock to glass but looking through it looks like its right there

 

[Betta132]

You would end up with a tang going in circles. They don't like that, from what I've seen of them in public aquariums.

 

[Nanighan]

Get a Kole tang for pure algae comsumption! The best I have experienced.

 

[pinnatus]

6' diameter by 17" deep is more like 300 gallons. if that is truly the dimensions, I would think your tangs would be fine. Although the sailfin gets large and high, the 17" will likely not be enough depth for that type of tang.

 

[pktech]

Trying to do the math on this just made me feel like I can't get mad at my kids for not knowing their "9" times tables, :lol:

 

[pinnatus]

Volume (gals) = 3.14 * 3^2 * 1.41 * 7.48 = 298 gallons

 

[Dmorty217]

The last tang I saw in a tank like that was a purple and was means as they came and would spear anyone who put their hand in the tank to grab a frag. (Was in a frag tank at a store in Florida)

 

[pinnatus]

Our lfs has a flock of yellow tangs (20-30) in a shallow frag tank. They do fine, and that tank is more like 8-10" deep.