Your Favorite Tang/Surgeonfish
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maxpower2112
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Wow this thread is still alive.
Maya_nl; amazing fish were did you get one, I know they are $$$.
npaden; how do the sohal and the clown get along? I know they are very agressive.
Maya_nl; amazing fish were did you get one, I know they are $$$.
npaden; how do the sohal and the clown get along? I know they are very agressive.
npaden
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They don't! The sohal is about 10" and the clown is about 6" and the clown won't be a good boy like the other tangs and run and hide when the sohal is in a mood. They seem to be tolerating each other finally though. I've had the sohal for about 2 years and the clown for about 4 months now. After I added the clown I spent 3 days trying to catch either the sohal or the clown to stop the war going on after introduction but never could catch either one and after the first week they have called a truce at least sometimes. I have an 1,100 gallon refugium that I was going to put whichever one I could catch in but they seem to be doing okay now. I got the clown from a local who had it for over a year and it was very fat and happy or I'm sure it wouldn't have made it in my tank with the sohal harrassing it at the start.
The sohal is the boss of the tank but generally isn't outright horrible toward the other fish. Having a 10' long 415 gallon tank with limited live rock for lots of open swimming space and heavy feeding probably helps this a lot.
FWIW, Nathan
deepblue68
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i like the clown. beautiful fish.
I like:deepblue68 said:
1: A. leusternon
2: clown-tang, he's also a real beauty
3: A. sohal, I got one years ago and I guess he's family of a pitbull. a real agressive fish, if you ask me.
and yes, I know, they're not all the same....
but the one I really love are the achilles, leusternon, japonicus en gemmatum.
gr.
Maya
deepblue68
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edsreef
thats one beautiful yellow tang!!
thats one beautiful yellow tang!!
monkeyreefer
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i keep an achilles, got lucky and found one at an lfs that was eating and looked extremly well, and for the last month has been thriving in my tank, but i am a bit worried right now as it has a couple of spots......so i just keep feeding it selcon and zoe soaked nori as well as the occasional mysis and cyclopeeze
edsreef
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Honestly, I'm not quite sure, but can't be much. Mine has the nice orange coloration on his fins - not sure if that's the diffence? Mine was called that when I got him and I'd heard the term used before, so assumed it was correct. Incidentally, mine is pretty big at about 6" in length.
Love the other photos! Thanks for the compliments! Lots of great Tangs out there!
Tarasco1
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Here's another good "favorite tang" thread with a lot of pics
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5685
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5685
deepblue68
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there a difference in there color, markings and location.the hawiian tang is yellow and pacific is brown/tan with stripes of yellow and white. the hawiian is from hawaii and pacific sailfin (indo-pacific)actually there two species one from the red sea(red sea sailfin) .
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