The Tang Family
 

A couple of pics. Can you find all 12?

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...x/DSC_0519.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...x/DSC_0515.jpg

Sure can!! Does your Atlantic Blue, or should i say yellow, always hang out with your Yellow tangs like that? What size is that tank it looks really nice :biggrin:

Only some times, just got lucky and had the camera out, it's a 300Gal
4X5ft

Wow 12 tangs in a 300g, that's a lot, and I always thought my 7 tangs in my 230g was really pushing it. It seems like they all get along though and look healthy, and to me that's the important part.

Very nice! Good looking fish.

Whats the dimensions of your 230? Are yours getting along well? What species?

Sorry off topic but I am looking for options for my tank. I think if I were to try to add more tangs (I have 3) to my 200 (72"x30") that I will add a few at once this time. I tried a Powder Brown not too long ago and that didn't go well. I have been told by a few people to try 5 or 6 instead of 4 to help with aggression. Don't really want so many though. We'll see...

Just looking for advice from both if you since you guys seem to be having success :)

Oh my don't tell anyone you have less than 6' long you will get flamed.
Love you dimensions and your tank looks great my two cents.

:violin:

I love you too. Peace okay.:wink:

Beautiful family you have there! So whats the secret to keeping the peace.....did you get the majority of them when they were smaller? or add a couple at a time? Please let us know as I have seen quite a few people that have had problems adding one fish at a time into a mature group like this.

Thanks
Brad

My 230g is 6 feet long, 2 feet wide and 3 feet high. None to very little aggression between my tangs. So are you ready for the list...ok here goes:

(all sizes are approx. guesses of how big they are right now)

Salfin tang -9/10"

Sohal tang -7/8"

Naso tang - 7/8"

Regal/Hippo - 7/8"

Valmingi - 5-6"

Yellow tang - 5"

Clown tang - 4"

There are pictures of all of them in my 230g reef pic.'s in my signature. The Salfin, Naso, Yellow, and Regal were added all together to the 230g from my 120g at the same time in Jan 2008. The Clown tang was added around March 2008, the Sohal was added Aug. 2008 and the Valmingi was added Dec. 2008 as a very small 1-2" tang, he's not so small anymore :wink: but I knew that he'd grow fast. They are all healthy, fat and well fed.

Thats how I got my count up, last go I added 4 new guys and they all got allong swimingly, now I can add 1 at a time and no probs.

Cool thanks guys...if I end up having the guts to try it, I may add a few at once next time. Not sure yet though. I do have a friend with a large Sailfin and I was debating adopting it since my tank is better suited for its size. How is your Sailfin with the Yellows?

Love your tank!

Your reef tank is awesome! I wish I could accomplish that. Looks like a really busy tank.

The adding of a few at a time works well when you have a few already but time seems to be the most important, I have had the 5 bigger ones for 7-8 years and since the tank upgrade last year I traded 2 of the old crew and have added all the smaller ones. Seems once you pass the 5-7 mark they all school together, loosing the color Prejudice. Who would of thought raceism existed in the reef lol.

Thanks, kinda 10 years in the makeing.

Hee...hee.. you should have come by for a visit so you can see what that vlamingi is going to look like in 1 year. You might have changed your mind...

No his size doesn't bug me, my friend has a 12" one in his tank, that is beautiful, and that is what made us want one in the first place. However that being said, I've noticed that as he gets bigger he seems to stir up the other tangs every now and then. They sometimes will chase each other for a few seconds like they are in some sort of frenzy but then they all settle down quickly and act like nothing happened, and it's only every now and then (not to often) that they do this :noidea: no one seems to get really hurt or anything so I guess they'll be ok.

Just throw in some food to redirect the energy. Tangs are cranker then our men when they are hungry:lol:

Mine used to do this until I basically started making food available almost all day long. Now they are fine and barely ever fight. Although my Hippo was out for my Powder Brown no matter what I did.

It only lasted for about 4 seconds and it was the first time I saw them all chasing each other, every once in awhile one will chase after a different one, but it's not usually most of them all at once. Come to think of it, it probably was provoked by us moving a fair sized rock with a hammer coral on it.

How old are the pics in your slideshow? I like your tank :)

It really makes me want more tangs but I still don't know if it would be right for my tank. I am going to take the Sailfin from my friend but I think stop there. My tank is a bit smaller than yours. Although bigger footprint. 72"x30".

One of my other problems though is that I don't like a lot of LR. I worry about that with tangs since they need places to sleep at night.

Hey. Nice tank dude. Do you use an RO/DI?

It is truly awesome to see that tangs can all be kept together in a large well established system with an experienced keeper... Something positive to see.

Cool to see a little school of yellow tangs.

You must have one hell of a busy skimmer to take care of all that tang poop.

Nope tap water for last 10 years with prime, I have verry clean ( low TDS water in Mission ) When I was in Abbotsford I had problems with water quality, had to be sure to collect tap water on sunny days, seemed to work.

Bubble King SM250, and yes I can fill it with near black sludge in 3-4 days

Most of them are from Jan 2009.

Anymore pics? :)

Do you have a full tank shot?

http://canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=48057
mine is the 5th post. I'll take a new one later

Cool. Looks great!

What other fish do you have in there?

I think I see a Bluethroat.

Sargassum trigger, had two but one jumped last week.
Six line wrass
clown wrass
flasher wrass
Mandarin
3 clowns
purple fire fish
Copper band
bi-colour blenni
and a few that I cant rember what they are I just thought they looked cool.

Oh ok, so no Blue Throat...thats a Sargassum I see.