New Clown Tang

Picked him up and acclimatised him last night. Seems to be settling in nicely (touch wood); The yellow has left him alone so far...

First time with a clown tang, any advice or are they much the same as any other tang ?

Pictures as soon as the lights come on.

 

nice fish...can be mean though....I have one but i will be trading him in when i do my switch to a 150 gallon in a couple weeks towards a sohal tang....love those things

 

Sohal will out grow a 150 reallllll fast.....


I have a clown tang in my 180, there are sometimes hard to get to eat, make sure it has an anglea strip in the tank at least once a day, mines loves the algea strips and only kinda picks at anything else i feed him...

 

Congrats..... I have thought about getting a clown tang

 

ive heard they get to monstrous sizes. this may be a rumor but i havent looked into it as i have a 30 gal. good luck. they are very cool fish!

 

Thanks for the advice guys... I hope he doesn't grow 'monstrous' as that'd involve a new tank or a new home but we shall see

Lights don't come on until later in the day so pics will have to wait

 

well apart from me 'misplacing' my phone. I never lose things you see..

A sadish update, he seemed to settle in well at first eating a variety of flake and frozen mysis. The yellow seemed to leave him alone, flaring up a little bit. However no chasing of fin nipping that i could see.

Now comes the bad news, he seems to have caught white spot and is hiding in a section of rock and refuses to come out to eat. I fear i shall lose him... Param's are normal so i'm at a loss any ideas ?

 

My purple tang came down with whitespot, I didnt have a QT tank at the time. I fed Nori soaked with garlic, turned on the uv during the day,off at night, and gave him Ick Attack. during then night time. I increased the temp to 81 degrees. and its been 3 months since hes had a single speck. Im fully aware its still in my tank Im hoping my cleaner shrimp and neon gobies help with it. (Didnt have the cleaners when my tang got ich)

Best of wishes though !

 

Feed him garlic and selcon enriched nori and food. He should recover quickly.

Clown tangs can and do get very big. I saw one in Fiji that was at least a foot long.

Typically they have poor survival rates in home reefs due to them not eating always. If yours eats, then there is hope for him.

 

Thats my problem right now....