Suggestions for my 125

[rocco134]

Originally Posted by phillybean

I have no intentions on moving my Naso into a tank bigger than 125, until my next upgrade, which I imagine is 5 years or so down the line.

At the end of the day, the so called "Tang Police" will say a Naso Tang won't be happy in a Tank smaller than 180 gallons. In my opinion, my Naso is stoked about life in my 75 gallon. He gets to eat whenever he wants, has no predators, no aggression at all in the tank etc.

The 125 is more about more room for my Corals than my fish, that said, I feel that a full grown tang, with the exception of Purple, Yellow and Scopa Tangs need 6' long tank. That said, the biggest tang I've seen in a Tank was a 14", 2" thick Hippo tang in a 5' 180. She was big, healthy and for all intensive purposes "happy".

My advice, deal more with Bioload, maintence. Get one or two "big" fish, a couple medium ones and some small ones.

Thanks phillybean! gives me some more perspective on this. since we are on the topic, what type of food do you feed yours?

[phillybean]

No problem, there are a lot of opinions in this hobby, I have mine, others have theirs. The big thing is to get to a point where you have success and keep it that way.

I feed two cubes of Mysis Daily, a quarter sheet of Nori every 2nd day and Pellets/flake food once a day on the days I don't feed Nori.

Once in a blue moon (when I am all out of Mysis) I feed a Manila Clam. All my fish, crabs and bristle worms enjoy the treat.

[rocco134]

Originally Posted by phillybean

No problem, there are a lot of opinions in this hobby, I have mine, others have theirs. The big thing is to get to a point where you have success and keep it that way.

I feed two cubes of Mysis Daily, a quarter sheet of Nori every 2nd day and Pellets/flake food once a day on the days I don't feed Nori.

Once in a blue moon (when I am all out of Mysis) I feed a Manila Clam. All my fish, crabs and bristle worms enjoy the treat.

very cool! who is the guy in the middle? (not the cleaner wrasse (i think that what the blue is))

[phillybean]

I think your referring to the Copperband Butterfly. Great Fish, but not so easy to keep.

[rocco134]

Originally Posted by phillybean

I think your referring to the Copperband Butterfly. Great Fish, but not so easy to keep.

very nice