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Originally Posted by naesco

[Certainly no one with any experience would keep 3 tangs in a three foot tank.
No one with any experince would mix similar species of tangs
No one with any experience would choose an Achilles tang. A tang which is almost impossible to keep by the most experienced tang keepers with ideal setups.

3 tangs in one tank, weird I though I only had 1, I will have to look for the other two.

as for the Achilles I did about 2 months of reading about them no where did I read imposable to keep to bad I didn't ask you. on the other hand I did read not a good starter tang and needs Very low nitrates, hmm he wasn't a starter and oh my look I have 0 nitrates. I also have no food competition for him and he picks at algae that I let grow on my rocks all day.

now back to your articles you posted, you forgot to mention one thing in your rant, that is for breeding and it is also what they maintain in the wilds, well I do not keep two females and 1 male in a tank which would require a lot more than 125 gal (about 375 gal) and I do not make my Tank search for food as he would have to in the wild nor does he compete with other consumers of the same food source. so that whole articles doesn't apply because it is under a totally different set of conditions.

In other wards in most captive tanks the fish do not have to fight, scrounge or what ever for food so it stand to reason that they can do with a smaller tank size.

a good case and point for this is anthius. even the smallest one can be kept singularly in a 33 gal tank but to recreate its proper environment you need a min of 125 gal tank but that is only the start, it should be a tank that is over 1 meter deep and wide as the mating ritual of the anthius is the do sped dives of approximately 1 meter. so ideally we should have 1 male and 7 or 8 females. so going by mating rituals these fish need more swimming area than a lot of tangs.

now I see a lot of off topic comments, lets keep them on as even though we have several different views here some good info can come from these heated "tang police" type things.

Steve