Yellow tang a good choice?

[HaZRaTTy]

Originally Posted by Adread

We were planning on adding a mandarin in the future. Would there be issues with those two? Other than that I believe we're done with fish. Lol.

There might be some aggression as the Tang gets bigger in size, I think the juv yellow tang would be okay in your system.

That being said when it out grows your 75g (which it will) hopefully you will donate him to a bigger tank.

[naesco]

[quote=HaZRaTTy;735015]There might be some aggression as the Tang gets bigger in size, I think the juv yellow tang would be okay in your system.

That being said when it out grows your 75g (which it will) hopefully you will donate him to a bigger tank.[/QUOTE

Your tank is too small for a tang. They require longer tanks (6 ft) to do what they do best which is to swim to and fro .It is never a good idea to buy a fish with the idea that you will buy a larger tank to accommodate its needs in the future. Stuff like un/under employment
divorce, kids, downsizing happen despite a reefers best intentions.

[Myka]

Imo, a 75-gallon tank is too small for any Tang. As Naesco suggests, a 6' tank is much better suited to Tangs, although I think some of the smaller Tangs do pretty good in 4' 120-gallon tanks simply because there is a larger footprint. Tangs like horizontal space, depth isn't so important to them. If you ever have the pleasure of seeing Tangs in the wild you would have a hard time putting them into any typically-sized home aquarium - they sure love to zip around!

[Otardifus]

I love my Yellow tang, I got it when I only had a 55 gallon. It out grew the tank in 6 months and then I transfered all my salt to a 125 gal and Tang is WAY more happy !
My yellow tang is not agressive towards other fish I introduce.
Tangs in general are a great cleaning crew for algae and they are verry nice to look at, a must have for all large tanks.