kole tang?

[fishmanstan]

I have a 4' 120g with a yellow tang, 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 bangaiis, 4 chromis, and a dusky jawfish, and yellow coris wrasse. I was wondering if I could add a yellow eye kole tang to my tank, without it outgrowing it?
Thanks

 

[fishmanstan]

Bump

 

[dg3147]

fo' sho'

 

[Cubbies]

Shouldn't have one bit a problem. One of the smallest tangs you can get.

 

[fishmanstan]

Anyone have a kole tang??

 

[dg3147]

Had one for a few years. You can find some pretty awesome ones from Divers Den (Live aquaria). i

 

[fishmanstan]

I'm gonna get one local. Please keep telling me about your experiences with them!

 

[dg3147]

Great fish! Picks at the rocks all the time. Good community fish until he started picking on my diamond goby and tortured it to death. An anomoly ithink.

 

[Kies1]

I have a sqaure tail bristel tooth one of my fav fish.

 

[jedimaster1138]

Good fish. I had one in a much smaller tank with no major issues. They don't get big at all and constantly graze on the rock work for algae. I got mine from Diver's Den. Sadly lost her after about a year during a tank transfer.

Didn't get along well with a firefish. The FF was basically EXTREMELY scared of her.

If you don't already have one, you might consider getting a scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp. My Kole and my cleaner were best friends. She'd go over for a cleaning multiple times a day, including INSIDE her mouth. The Skunk was basically her dentist. lol

I think you'll be just dandy in that tank.

 

[MrTuskfish]

I have a 4' 120g with a yellow tang, 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 bangaiis, 4 chromis, and a dusky jawfish, and yellow coris wrasse. I was wondering if I could add a yellow eye kole tang to my tank, without it outgrowing it?
Thanks

If I follow, you have an established yellow tang in a 4' tank and want to add a kole? I would expect the YT to make life miserable for the Kole on day one. YTs can be very aggressive to any newcomer, especially similar tangs. YTs need more than 4' of swimming space and this lack of swimming space will probably turn to pure aggression. If it does, you could put the YT in your QT for a week or so, so he becomes the newcomer. It might work; 50-50 at best...IMO

 

[coral_lagoon]

If I follow, you have an established yellow tang in a 4' tank and want to add a kole? I would expect the YT to make life miserable for the Kole on day one. YTs can be very aggressive to any newcomer, especially similar tangs. YTs need more than 4' of swimming space and this lack of swimming space will probably turn to pure aggression. If it does, you could put the YT in your QT for a week or so, so he becomes the newcomer. It might work; 50-50 at best...IMO

Rearrange the rock work too. Some fish have good memory..

 

[RayL]

I had a Blue Hippo tang already and then added a purple tang and the yellow eye kole tang at the same time. So far no problems, and they all seem to enjoy swimming around together.

 

[AndysReef]

They are great fish, always picking at the glass and the rocks.

 

[fishmanstan]

I keep my yellow well fed and after a couple of days he usually mellows out with newcomers.

 

[jlanger]

If I follow, you have an established yellow tang in a 4' tank and want to add a kole? I would expect the YT to make life miserable for the Kole on day one.

I agree with MrT.
When I tried to introduce a kole tang to an established yellow tang, it was war.
We kept the kole tang and removed the yellow.

 

[fishmanstan]

Would the kole size be a difference- small get along better than a large kole tang??

 

[Scridifer]

Good community fish until he started picking on my diamond goby and tortured it to death. An anomoly ithink.

I don't know if it is an anomaly - my Kole chases my ornate goby (Istigobius ornatus) something unmerciful. I don't know if it's because the goby feeds on the sand bed and the tang sees that as his patch - he (the tang) is always grazing on the sand.
Fortunately I have plenty of hidey-holes in the LR and at the moment the goby doesn't seem too phased by it.

Chris

 

[fishmanstan]

Keep comments comin!

 

[lilalove]

I don't know if it is an anomaly - my Kole chases my ornate goby (Istigobius ornatus) something unmerciful. I don't know if it's because the goby feeds on the sand bed and the tang sees that as his patch - he (the tang) is always grazing on the sand.
Fortunately I have plenty of hidey-holes in the LR and at the moment the goby doesn't seem too phased by it.

Chris

Mine harrasses my tailspot blenny. When I am in front of the tank and they know food is coming, he will chase it back into its hole. I've stood far enough away where they were behaving normally, and the kole leaves the blenny alone. I guess he sees him as a major source of food competition. Otherwise is very well behaved and eats absolutely everything I toss in there.