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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic
They recommend a 100g min. tank size for a PB.
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Most tangs get pretty large, right? I would think the largest tank you could possibly give them would be better for their overall mental health, especially once they start getting near their mature size.
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This is a wide-ranging, fast-swimming vigorous fish that needs plenty of room. The smallest tank I recommend for their keeping is one hundred gallons. At full potential size of about a foot in length, this would only be six times the length of the fish… not too much to ask for.
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For instance, I had (before the recent tragedy in my 120g) a 4" blue sided wrasse (adult size 6") and a 3" chevron butterfly (adult size 5"-6") along with two smaller fish. I could tell that both the wrasse and butterfly would have liked a much bigger tank. They were great swimmers and liked going into and out of the rockwork, but they also spent a lot of time pacing the tank.
After watching them for the time they were with us, I kinda felt bad for them for the pacing. But due to space constraints, I could only provide a 120g. Both fish were still young and had a lot of growing to do. I could only imagine that they felt stuck in this tiny glass box, whereas in their natural environment, they would have had a territory at least the size of our 1500 sq ft condo.
For fish that grow large, the bigger the better. JMO, though.