Tang Lovin'
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bosborn1
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Thats not that weird. My Hippo, Orange Shoulder, and YT always do the "spawning dance" with each other....Its weird. Ofcourse they could never reproduce but it looks funny anyway. I guess in theroy it possiable as both tangs are Zebrasomas. I used to cross breed southy cichlids all of the time when I had them. I think that its hypothediaclly possiable for the same genus to cross breed with each other. I find it unlikely however.
Scott
Scott
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Re: Tang Lovin'
Nesting? Tangs are broadcast spawners.....
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
It sounds like war, not love.
How big is your aquarium?
How big is your aquarium?
S Helinski
Active member
You will never be able to have any tangs reproduce in an aquarium... The "captive bread" tangs available, were eggs in the ocean, placed into an aquarium to hatch.
Tangs get together by the hundreds, and swim around each other like a big "cyclone" in the water, this is their mating ritual. Then all at once, hundreds of tangs release eggs and sperm into this cyclone. Many of the eggs are fertilized, and they drift off, hopefully settling and hatching undisturbed.
I suppose that it is possible that one day with a HUGE aquarium, this action could occur and produce fertilized eggs in captivity, but its very unlikely.
As for the hybrid question, I'm not a bio major, but i'm pretty sure as long as 2 animals have the same # of chromosomes, its possible. Also, RandyO was holding onto a hybrid tang a while ago. So its most definately possible. In the cyclone event, not all the tangs are of the same exact type, but I think it would be mostly yellow, or mostly hippo, and so forth...
Your tangs are probably fighting. There might be a lack of algae to eat... Try feeding some live crap algae to them--you could harvest it from another place-like a fuge. Also, you could try massively redoing the aquascape, confusing the tangs into liking one another...
Steve
Tangs get together by the hundreds, and swim around each other like a big "cyclone" in the water, this is their mating ritual. Then all at once, hundreds of tangs release eggs and sperm into this cyclone. Many of the eggs are fertilized, and they drift off, hopefully settling and hatching undisturbed.
I suppose that it is possible that one day with a HUGE aquarium, this action could occur and produce fertilized eggs in captivity, but its very unlikely.
As for the hybrid question, I'm not a bio major, but i'm pretty sure as long as 2 animals have the same # of chromosomes, its possible. Also, RandyO was holding onto a hybrid tang a while ago. So its most definately possible. In the cyclone event, not all the tangs are of the same exact type, but I think it would be mostly yellow, or mostly hippo, and so forth...
Your tangs are probably fighting. There might be a lack of algae to eat... Try feeding some live crap algae to them--you could harvest it from another place-like a fuge. Also, you could try massively redoing the aquascape, confusing the tangs into liking one another...
Steve
moriartiholmes
New member
Sorry to hear about the war, also I hope you were able to get the loosing fish out of the tank before it was killed.
Dwarf Angels and clowns are known to cross breed in nature, Anthias too, I'm pretty sure.
In my original system I had a yellow damsel that did a mating dance (shimmy) with a snowflake eel. At least thats what it looked like. Maybe that was agression too...
Dwarf Angels and clowns are known to cross breed in nature, Anthias too, I'm pretty sure.
In my original system I had a yellow damsel that did a mating dance (shimmy) with a snowflake eel. At least thats what it looked like. Maybe that was agression too...
