Third day reading about Powder Brown Tang and can not make my mind

[sig_1959]

I have mixed reef 120G 4x2x2 with approximately 150Lbs of LR.
Blue hippo tang ~ 4", Yellow tang ~3", coral beauty ~ 2" and 4 clowns.
I got this powder tang on impulse on Sunday and this baby is ~4" and will be biggest in the tank. It is currently in quarantine and healthy and almost eating nuri from the hand.
looks like I have not enough place to swim and conflicts will occur among tangs, but I also worry about corals. My tangs are eating NFL pellets and mysis one time per day and adapted to this schedule.
I do not know if I will be able to provide timely food for the power tang and I seen somewhere that this guy can turn on SPS.
I am reading and reading, but opinions are so mixed that i am lost. :headwallblue:
The wife already told me go to the hell, since I bother her all the time with the question if we should take a chance.
Please advice. This will be final to make decision.
Thanks

Here is my beauty


here is the tank to see how full it is

 

[sandwi54]

well, it comes down to whether you want to do things "right" or you want personal satisfaction. blue tang needs 8' of length and powder brown needs 6', so that's an easy answer for you. also, the 4 clowns will become 2 some time in the future so you may want to consider donate two of them.

 

[sig_1959]

. also, the 4 clowns will become 2 some time in the future so you may want to consider donate two of them.

It is probably unbelievable but this "future" continues for 1.5 year. 2 are hosting anemone and 2 others hosting elegance on the other side of the tank

 

[sandwi54]

It is probably unbelievable but this "future" continues for 1.5 year. 2 are hosting anemone and 2 others hosting elegance on the other side of the tank

Cool so your case is one of the few exceptions! hopefully it stays that way.

 

[CHSUB]

I think you have added the fish in the right order, pbt last....a bigger tank would be better but i think you will be ok. as far as safe with sps, my tangs never bother them; except maybe looking for algea, but never hurting the coral. let us now how it goes???

 

[Toddrtrex]

Have either of the clown pairs started to spawn?

 

[sig_1959]

No. but I hope one day..

 

[Toddrtrex]

The odds of all 4 getting along when one pair starts to spawn are slim to none. I have had a peaceful pink skunk pair turn into holy terrors once they started spawning -- to the point were they would regularly attack my dwarf angels. I ended up having to sell them -- the change was day and night.

As for the tang, I kept the similar A. nigricans in a 4 foot tank about 10 years ago, worked fine for the first year. Once it hit about 5 inches, things changed, started to pace the tank back and forth, became aggressive, all the signs of a tang in too small of a tank. I wouldn't put it in the tank, don't think it will work out short term, let alone long term.

 

[Reefing Newbie]

Well they probably won't start spawning until one paid eliminates the other... It is just the way it is... There are exceptions, like groups of siblings being kept together since birth.

I would take your powder brown and blue regal tang. They won't fit in your tank. That is he right thing to do. You will more than likely have aggression problems with three tangs in such a small tank. Do more research before you buy more fish, impulse buys usually aren't good.

 

[Sonicblast12]

I think your aquascape is working against you in this case. It's one thing to have a tang in a four foot tank, but when much of the swimming space is taken up by rock it tends to limit things a bit. It's more like a 55 gallon than a 120 gallon in terms of swimming room.

Jaw dropping tank, don't get me wrong. Just probably not the best fit for large tangs. That powder might fit for awhile, maybe even for life. But it's not likely, it just depends on the personality of the fish. The extra two feet of length makes a lot of difference for the powder tangs.

 

[fishguy597]

The other thing to consider is what if it develops ich or velvet? Some people can keep powders in a reef environment , myself I can't. I lost basically all my fish twice and I won't do it again.

 

[aandfsoccr04]

so what did you end up doing?