Few things

Hi everyone I am new to 3reef first of all my name is Miki(mickey) I am a young reefer (only 14) i realy love this hobby and i started 3 weeks ago with my first reef tank.

My tank is a 46 gallon bowfront drilled.
So far all i have is a few hermits(about 10) 2 clowns and 3 chromis
I also have some sps corals that came on the live rock.
I have 2x175 w MH and t5 40 w actinics.


My question is do you guys think a naso tang would be ok in my tank.

 

hey md
welcome
i would say wait a month then come back and ask
i know patience is a hard thing to come by at any age
but your tank will thank you for it in the end

 

The tank has been cycling for 3 weeks. I'm wondering if it will be ok to keep a naso tang after in my size tank.

 

tangs usually needa large swimming spaces especailly the larger variety like the naso tang, you could keep some juvenille tangs like the blue or yellow, but in the future they would need a larger tank to move into as they grow bigger. also how long did you cycle your tank before adding 5 fish? any pics?

 

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Great to have you here!

Try to be patient for just a little longer before adding any fish. Then begin with smaller less expensive varietes...there are lots of cool ones to choose from. Let us know if you would like some ideas, we all love to fish shop/or help with fish shopping!

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hello and welcome to 3reef

 

Well I also have a account on on cannreef and everyone said that not even 1 tang would be sutible in my tank so I have cane down to my scencies and I am going with a some kind of a dwarf angle.

Bicolor Angelfish
Lemonpeel Angelfish
Multicolor Angelfish
Pygmy (Cherub) Angelfish
Flameback Angelfish
Half Black Angelfish
flame angle

 

on most forums you will have the "tang Police" telling you that you shouldn't keep tangs but if you must, you need a 30,000 gallon tank(not really but you get the point) if you are planning a larger tank in the future then you could get a small tang and keep him happy in there for a while. but if you are going to keep the 46 for a while i would definatly look into some others. sometimes the angels can nip at coral. but that isn't always the case.

 

Welcome

 

Are you seriously going to keep asking this question until you get the answer you want?

The problem with purchasing a juv and then trading it in when it is too big for your tank is.
1) in a reef tank it is very hard to de-construct your reef to try and catch a fish
2) There are far fewer Large reef tanks out there that can handle a larger fish
3) Most people like juvs to watch them grow so the market is much smaller for large fish
4) Large fish that are taken back to the store are then put into the small sales tanks with less hope of selling they tend to be there for awhile or die

I think you got good advise over at Canreef, but it appears it was not the answer you wanted so why don't you just do what you want to do and stop asking.