New tang! PICS

[JLopez]

So today i got some fish.

1 yellow tang
2 blue tangs
1 bicolor blenny

plus the ones i already had

3 chromis
1 yellow tang

My friend came over while i was acclimating the fish and he saw i was going to put a second yellow tang and he flipped. he says you can only keep them in odd numbers? i had never heard of this before and i put the new one in anyway. they havnt been fighting at all. Any input on this?

Also, my baby blue tangs are the coolest. they'r probably the size of a quarter. you can see how big they are compared to the chromis in some of the pics.

Thats both of them getting blown away by the power head.

See how small it is? They'r both that size.

Here are the yellow tangs. You can see the one I added today is significantly smaller.

Here they are again.

 

[JLopez]

also you can see my rbta at the bottom right of the second pic. its a baby as well, probably an inch in diameter.

 

[Reefer08]

very nice aquascaping, its gonna look really nice once all those rocks are purple. cool fish btw

 

[Hormigaquatica]

The thing with Yellow Tangs is that they are highly territorial in captivity. 2 of the same species (even of the same genus) are likely to harass eachother in the long run. I would return your new little guy.
The odd number thing comes from the thought that if you have a pair, the two fish will constantly beat on eachother. If you have a trio, the aggression is more spread out. Plus, its better fung shui... lol. While yellow tangs do school in nature, you would need a very large tank (I would say 250+) in order to maintain the right social hierarchy; in most cases you wind up with just 1 large aggressive animal, and a group of torn up sickly ones. There are exceptions, but they are rare.

 

[JLopez]

ohh ok i see. thanks for the info.

the aquascaping took me forever! im very picky lol. thanks