Yellow Tango insano
 

I dont know what happened, but my yellow tang is flipping out attacking everyone in the tank. He's scratched the hell out of the foxface, the clowns hold their own, and everyone else ran for the hills and is hiding. Any reason this sort of behavior should occur? The foxface and tang have been co existing for about a month now, added within a week of each other. I'm at a loss. :mad:

How big is the tank and how big are the fish? Are they being fed enough? Is there a lot of competition during feeding?

He's in a 70. I feed them a good chunk of seeweed once or twice a day. They still fight, then go to their own sides of the tank...

I had a foxface and a yellow in a 90 and I wouldn't do it again, they were constantly on each others nerves but I also had a tone of rock for hiding so no major fights erupted, now add your clowns to this and you have enuf to drive any self respecting tang insain. I think you need to either get rid of the foxface or the tang personaly.

Steve

I've moved him in with my breeding clowns temporarily, where he seems to be keeping to himself. If I let him stay there for a few days and move him back to the other tank, will he recognize the tank as his territory still?

If he doesn't he soon will again.

Steve

Stupid Tang.

I can't empisize how pee'd off I am. I talked so SOoO many people about my fish want list. I had both on there and EVERYONE I talked to said they would be fine togeather. AI staff, here, other fish boards .. And now I have to get rid of a fish. :rolleyes: Don't mean to lose it but I fought with this problem all day and ended up buggering up other things like my lighting canopy. .. nother story...

As I understand it, recommendations about fish are general ideas with a lot of variation from one individual fish to another. For example Yellow Tangs are supposed to be a little aggressive and territorial, and not tolerate other similar fish (Purple Tangs, other Yellow Tangs, etc.) However there will be exceptions to every rule. I would use people's recommendations as a baseline to start with, recognizing that every fish is different. My YT is a bit aggressive toward my Hippo Tang and Copperband, but nothing extreme.

With FW fish (I used to breed Angels) I found a definite relation between temperature and aggression. By lowering the temperature 2 or 3 degrees, the aggression level went way down. Just an idea, might work, might not.

My Yellow Tang and Powder Blue Surgeon are best of buddys. They were purchased at the same time, quarantined together and introduced into the show tank at the same time. The Powder Blue is a bit larger and the Yellow is pretty much its shadow. Follows the Powder Blue all over, most of the time. It's cool.
Not sayin' Yellow Tangs aren't aggressive. Just, in my case, my Yellow isn't. Mind you, it's a 135g tank with only those two fish, 5 Green Chromis and 2 False Perculas. Maybe that's why. (Tank's 4 months old. More fish to come).
:smile:

I am going to give that a try. My temp has been high at 85degrees, I installed a radiator today to bring down the temp, but it will be the night before it is cooler, I did notice that when I added him to my other tank where the temp is a stable 80, he is very calm.