I want to add a second Yellow Tang

I felt sure this would be in the search but I scanned several pages of posts to no avail.

Last week I put a 4-5" Yellow tang in the 110. Now the LFS has another in about the same size. Can I get a ruling on adding the second or not?

From my research a good portion of the sites say that Yellows are compatible, however a few sites say no and to only keep one.
I have seen schools of Yellows but imagine that they were all added at once.

 

Keep 1 or 3+ same species of tangs in large tanks. Also for a better chance of success adding them together at the same time helps a TON as your original tang is going to have a problem with another one invading its new turf. I'm one of those weird people that think that 1 tang in a 4' tank is more than enough, and 3 in a 6' tank is plenty.

Then theres individual personalities of fish that need to be taken into account. A while ago I had a yellow tang alone in my 125 and he seemed like a peacefull fish . . . until I added another tang then WW3 broke out resulting in a dead new addition in 2 days.

~Will.

 

i only keep one yellow tang... ive heard yellows are VERY territorial especially to fish of the same color and shape

 

I have keep two yellows in the same tank before, but i put them in at the same time and they had NO problems. I however would never try to add another tang to a tank that already has one.

 

I have a yellow and a sailfin I did not add at the same time... there was a little picking at first but.. things have calmed.

I believe it helped the the sailfin was added second, and was about twice the size of the yellow.

 

Typically tangs will adapt to another tang, but sometimes there can be a total war that does not go away until 1 is dead.


Be prepared, and maybe it will work.

I personally would add a different tang, since 2 tangs is probably max in a 4 foot 110.

 

i add mine after...there is always aggression for the first few days, then they will chill and be all good!

 

If you wanted to give this a stab heres the way to do

1. Remove the old tang and put him in a QT tank, redo the rock work a lil, add new tang in. After about a week put the old tang back in.


2.Add a mirror to the tank when the new tang is put in. THis MIGHT distract the old tang for a while and allow the new tang to get used to the tank

 

+1 on the rearranging, but I might try adding the tangs back into the tank together and let them both claim their territory at the same time. Just my 2 cents.

Jake

 

I decided to look another direction. I would really like to see two big Yellows swimming side by side, but I don't want to see one floating and one cover with ich. It seems the safest insurance against that outcome would be to add a different fish. Maybe a Kole tang?

I have had my eye on a cow fish at the LFS, thay are very cool looking, and seems like a bumble bee to me. Such an odd shape they surely couldn't swim. A guy up there scared me off though, he said if it dies - everything dies. So far I have only lost 2 fish, both green chromises (out of ten) that were put straight in the 110 the day they arrived form Florida. I think it'll be O.K., but still a little scared. Anyone here keeping a cow fish?