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Originally Posted by SleepyPirate
I just purchased a blue tang last night at the LFS and its quite small mabey an inch IF that, its quite a bit smaller then my small clown fish.
Is there anything I need to know in the care for it and how fast do they generally grow?
I have a 90 gallon tank with:
50lbs Live rock
1 Lawnmore fish
2 clown fish
1 blue tang
2 Peppermint shrimp
1 feather duster
Med size colony of green star polyps
Med size candy cane
Small Blue Xenia
and
2 very large leather corals of some sort that are growing like crazy but never "bloom" cause of my inadequate lighting
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Your tiny tang, unlike other tangs, is a meat eater so you have to provide them with high quality food. They are also ich magnets so ensure that the the food is fortfied with garlic extract or Garlic Extreme snd selcon. The tiny guys are very active and you need to feed it a little 6 or so times a day.
Picture a plate in your tank. That is the size your tang will get. They grow surprisingly quicklly. They are very active, swimming to and fro all the time and that is why they, and almost all tangs, require large tanks, six feet, so that they have the room to swim.
Thank you for asking about it's care but in the future, in the interest of the fish you are considering buying, it is much better to ask for advice from reefers here before you buy.
Good Luck.