What Tang is good with LPS

cristhiam

cristhiam

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I'm still trying to decide what to put in my 125, now I just have a clown, jawfish, blue tail damsel, for corals I have ricordia, frogspawn, acan lord, hammer, orange cap, xenia, zoos, brain, acros, digitata, crocea, derasa, gigas, maxima, couple leathers, cup coral, I had a Hippo tang once and it was good for the first couple of months and then started picking on my open brain, so the tang had to go. I'd like to know from experiences what is a good tang (or other fish) for my setup. The tank is an upgrade from a 2 year old 55. Thanks.
 
All fish are different... But a hippo blue tang is fine, a yellow tang, a powder blue tang, even a kole tang I think. I would go to liveaquaria.com and check out there tang section and it will tell you what is good with a reef and what is not.
 
A kole tang, yellow tang, hippo maybe even a orange shoulder would be ok in there. They are less agressive than the purples
 
no tangs =)

Species is no guarentee, all of the tangs listed above have been reported to nip LPS. Your safest bet is to look for small juvi tangs like 2-3 inches and keep them well fed with nori every other day. If your tank is stressful or they don't get enough nutrition from the nori or you feed them meaty foods you are more likely to create a nipper. Especially if you feed your lps the same meaty foods the tang likes.

HTH
 
hmm! maybe that's why my hippo started messing with the brain. My hippo was 1.5" to 2" when I got it but I did spot feed the corals with krill and brine, fish loved it. I did feed nori every day. Ohh man! I don't know what to do now :) I'm doing a lot of reading about the Bluethroat trigger now :)
 
any tang is fine i have kept almost all tangs with the corals u have not sure why ur blue tang nipped but my favs are the blue hippos, purple tang and the tamini tang
 
I have a blue hippo tang that has never touched them. And the my dad has a Sailfin that is fine and it never touched it.
 
All tangs are reef safe as long as they are well fed. Any fish that is underfed will nip at coral rather than starve to death. There is a great article in "Marine Fish and Reef USA" (2006 Annual) magazine about surgeonfish and will probably have all the info you are looking for. Just keep the tangs stocked up on greens and your corals should be fine.
 
Hit or miss I'd say... there's lots of thread here on this already where "experienced" reefers had to catch rogue tangs that would eat LPS, SPS and zoas.
 
i agree with john76. you never truly know how a fish will react until its in there.

do your best to plan ahead and be willing to make adjustments.
 
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