powder brown vs 65gal

Never had a powder brown but if they are anything like my powder blue they are very aggressive. They are very beautiful fish but I will never have another one. My powder blue has earned the name a**hole and for good reason. He doesn't like any of my fish.

 

If you want at ang look into a tomini tang.

 

A small hippo would be perfect, they are very slow growing. I kept one in a 40B for nearly two years. I've seen a few yellow and scopas tangs that may be small enough for your tank as well. Just be sure your LFS takes in trades, that way it can find a home when it does grow.

 

I disagree it is not good aquarium husbandry to cramp such a large fish in a 40 gallon tank, for two years!

 

how do you get "such a large fish" from him saying "a small hippo"? Just sayin'. I had a hippo in my 55 for around a year, and he was still smaller than a dwarf angel when i tore the tank down.

 

FYI, a hippo tang, even a "small" one swim several miles a day in the wild, just the fact that its the size of a dwarf angel doesnt make it any better? dwarf angels do not swim nearly as much, therefore they are suitable for much smaller tanks. a hippo tang will grow large in no time and will need a tank of at least 90 gallons if not larger when full sized. hippo tangs alot of times will stop growing when in a smaller tank where they do not have room to grow and do not get adequate nutrition, which i believe is what happened in your case.

there is no logical excuse to keeping a tang in a smaller tank, it all comes down to how serious the hobbyist is about this hobby and how patient he is. an impatient hobbyist that buys on impulse quickly ends up with an overstocked tank.

 

And here come the afformentioned tang police.
FWIW, the hippo was moved to a 275 long (that big enough for you?), where it continued to show no noticeable growth for another 8-12 months. In my case, hippo tangs are very slow growing, and I stick by my post that there is no problem with them in smaller tanks if they are themselves very small.

 

i still disagree, even a small hippo tang does not deserve to be limited to a 40 gallon tank. that in my mind is irresponsible aquarium husbandry.

 

FWIW, here's my $.02! Reading 3 or 4 different forums, and coming across countless Ich threads, here seems to be the recurring theme of them.
OP: Help I have ich
REply; with what fish
OP; I have a tang and now the rest of my fish have it
REply; what size tank
OP: too small, although they generally give #'s
reply; hospital tank medicine garlic selcon yada yada
OP: well the tang died and so did a few other fish

And FYI, I'm breaking the tang code as I have a juvi YT in my 55, BUT, it is def not good practice to recommend a fish to a newbie that will outgrow his tank, possibly causing them to take the tank apart to get it out, that has a very high likelihood of causing an Ich outbreak and thus discouraging them from this hobby when their fish die. Especially when there are TONS of better options that are just as cool. IMO