Looking to buy tangs

[Luke Schnabel]

I have a 125gallon display tank, 20 gallon QT tank. I'm want to get 2-3tangs for my tank.
1) Sailfin, powder blue or brown and a yellow
2) Sailfin, powder blue and powder brown
3) Sailfin, powder blue or brown and Kole tang

I read that it's best to get tangs all at once if your going to have more then one. I'm worried about my QT tank is only 20 gallons and having 2 or 3 tangs in it at once will be a mess. The lists are the tangs I want. I've seen numerous videos that have all kinds of tangs in 125gallons. Everything I read though says no...

I plan to go to the fish store tomorrow.

 

[jraker]

I have a 125gallon display tank, 20 gallon QT tank. I'm want to get 2-3tangs for my tank.
1) Sailfin, powder blue or brown and a yellow
2) Sailfin, powder blue and powder brown
3) Sailfin, powder blue or brown and Kole tang

I read that it's best to get tangs all at once if your going to have more then one. I'm worried about my QT tank is only 20 gallons and having 2 or 3 tangs in it at once will be a mess. The lists are the tangs I want. I've seen numerous videos that have all kinds of tangs in 125gallons. Everything I read though says no...

I plan to go to the fish store tomorrow.

for a 125 gallon tank, i would go with 2 tangs. you should have them be different shaped tangs so they dont fight, so i would go with powder blue or yellow with a kole tang. 20 gallon QT is a little small for tangs IMO (unless theyre very small). a sailfin will get a little big for a 125, so you should avoid it.

hope this helps, if you have any other questions, just ask.

 

[Cosmojo]

Don't do a PBT in a 125, it'll kill almost anything else in the tank. Been there done that.

 

[strike2867]

Sorry, your tank is too small for a Sailfin.

 

[JoeVandal49]

Sailfins get rather large growing up to 16 inches i believe. The red sea ones are stunning though, but long term it will outgrow your tank. PBl/PBr are some of the more notorious *******s in the tang world.

Yellow and kole would be fine, i would reconsider the other choices though. There are better choices out there that would be more suited to long term captivity in a 125.

If it were me i would put two tangs in a tank that size. A bristle tooth tang, and another tang to complement it that would be more suited to a 125.

I currently have a tomini and a Thompsons tang is the same size footprint tank, but i also have the luxury of moving the thompsons tang to a 300g stock pond should size/aggression become an issue. So far it has not been, but it could become an issue eventually.

I could never picture any of your three options of groupings on your list being successful long term in that size reef tank.

 

[Dmorty217]

You can POSSIBLY have a yellow and a kole together in a 125g but no sailfin or powders. If you want "Tangs" then you need a tank 3xs larger than what you have

 

[Sandman182]

+1 on Sailfin being too big.