Stocking tank question!!

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Originally Posted by Adam Mac

Running a UV sterilizer since day one. My regal has had ich and has fought it off before and the tang is healthy and loves my landscape and swims lots and in my opinion is a very healthy specimen. So I take all your points into mind but visually I think theres nothing wrong with my situation. I havent heard of a powder brown needing quite 10 feet to swim. I mean thats just not in the deck of cards. Pretty much every tang requires 90 gal min yet you still see yellows in every system out there. I dont feel im being hurtful or cruel to my powder.....or should I???

A 10 foot tank is nice but not necessary.
Tangs with the exception of a kole tang need large tanks, 6 footers because they are swimmers and do that all day. They need the length to be able to freely motor back and forth.
Those who have had tangs in smaller tanks and moved up or observed them swimming is larger tanks noticed the marked improvement in the fish.