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Originally Posted by megatron_55
I got proof!! I think fish "adjusts" to their environment . . .I have a 27gal tank and its been a running for about a year and 2mnths and I have . . . count it . . . 9 fish in it with about atleast 30 diff species of corals. Two are tangs . . . one hippo and one yellow. . . up to date my yellow tang is just a tad bit bigger than a toonie and my blue tang is about a toonie size ... at max I say they grew a quarter inch. . . they haven't grown much and I've been feeding them normaly (3 meals a day) with hikari blood worms, mysis, brine shrimp and nori dried seaweed. . . I have my additives such as live phytoplankton, calcium, iodine, reef trace supplements... I also have an aquac remora pro for skimmer and a 12 gallon refugium . . . but then again thats my own experience . .  |
I dont believe large fish "adjust " to their enviroment. They live in their enviroment if thats an only alternative for them but thats about it. Why would we put fish that require much larger tanks, in small tanks, when their are so many beautiful fish of a smaller size and swimming range? Fish that much prefer hanging out in the rocks than swimming in the open?
Adult yellow tangs, in aquariums, can grow pretty large and for sure a hippo is much to large of a fish for smaller tanks. They require lots of swimming space and water high in oxygen. My friends huge yellow and his still young adult Regal, {hippo} are both huge, very thick bodied and growing still, even though the yellow is now 5yrs. old. They reside in his 180g.
One thing I never mentioned in the 15g and 33g yellow tang posts, but has been mentioned many times on the board by others, is how aggressive adult yellow tangs will become. This is certainly more pronounced in smaller tanks.