What type of tang do you keep in your tank(s)?

[nichols]

I bought a Blonde Naso at TI about 3 weeks ago. I have a tough to control brown calcareous algae.

I happy to say the Naso is ripping through this stuff like there's no tomorrow. He peals off big pieces and chases them around the tank till there all gone. I have a Sailfin, a Foxface, an urchin and some extremely large turbos. The Naso is the only thing that will touch it.

 

[reefinghabit]

i also keep a indo pacific sailfin tang and a blue eyed kole tang. i feed my tangs dried sea weed, mysis shrimp ,scallops, prime reef frozen food and new life spectrum non medicated anti parasitic pellets with garlic.

 

[sparkyee]

Here is my chocalate tang (Tomini)

 

[Moe_K]

Bumping this thread to get some fresh input.

Please tell us which tangs you're keeping.

 

[67belvedere]

Sailfin, Yellow, Hippo, Orange Shoulder, and two Convict Tangs in a 180

 

[s_kelley]

Scopas Tang

 

[JayM]

The one fish I have after the move and crash, and the second loss-of-circulation crash is a 5 year old yellow tang.

 

[B.rian]

hippo tang currently, but when i move/get the new tank it will be a hippo, a vampire tang, and a desjardini tang. wish i had a larger enough tank for a maculiceps tang.

 

[Cjtabares]

Right now I have just a yellow. I had a clown, it was fat and happy would eat anything I put in the tank, then last Tuesday I saw him hidding and he would not come out and eat. I got up at 4 am to check on him he was still alive, then when I got up at 7am he was dead. I had him since a week before Christmas idk what happend everything else in the tank is fine.

 

[joanstone]

I currently have a tomini and a purple-they live in separate tanks though. I have kept a naso, desjardini and brevirostris in the past. They eat nori sheets, a combination of different flake foods with lots of spirulina, pellets, mysis-pretty much anything I put in there. I have been looking for a lavender or a chocolate to add at some point possibly.

 

[beckisguy73]

I will have my purple tang back when I finallaly set up my new tank...

 

[loki32687]

Once I get my 120 going I'm going to try and get an Achilles.

 

[MikeyDew07]

i have a yellow and lavender tang and sense i have gotten them they swim side by side with no fighting

 

[nicks387]

Here are mine. I don't have a pic of the achilles yet but soon I will get one up.

 

[Moe_K]

Here are mine. I don't have a pic of the achilles yet but soon I will get one up.

Whoa, wicked nice!
How do well does the clown tang eat? What do it eat? How long have you had it?

 

[nicks387]

All my tangs eat like pigs. I have had him for about a year now and the funny thing is that for the first 5 months he would eat nothing but whatever he could graze off the rocks. I also left one side panel of glass that I never scraped so he could eat off of it. Then finally one day he started to eat pellets. I feed all my fish the same thing, formula one and formula 2 pellets and whatever they can eat off the live rock. The tangs keep my display tank algae free. I have had my yellow and powder blue for 4 years and my sohal at least 2 years.

 

[saltwaterB]

I can't take pics of Fish for S**T, but I just snapped a few of my 2.5" Black Tang, he eats anything I drop in the tank, and chows on almost any algae he has in the tank, as you can tell he has plenty to choose from... But it does keep him a little fatty.... I have had him in my 125 gal. for about 8 months.


sorry for the messy glass, I should have wiped it off first...

 

[nicks387]

Thats an awesome black tang you have there.

 

[saltwaterB]

Thank you, honestly he is the only reason I am keeping that tank up and running...he has a ton of room to grow in there


Your collection of Tangs is pretty awesome!

 

[nicks387]

Well, if you ever do decide to take down that tank, I know of a nice 300 gallon home for him.......
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