Purple tang in 90

Agreed. This is why people must do some research about their fish they want. What is its Diet, How does it swim, Is it an open water swimmer, Does it do better in groups or singular in a home aquarium.

Now I agree 3reef is great and all and full of resourceful people. I feel that people need to sometimes step outside the forum and do their research. As you can get bits and info from fish vendors online, It still doenst fully cut the true research of the fish you want. It only took me a year and half to build up the guts to get a Tamarin wrasse. And she is doing lovely.

 

look up!

 

love your achilles! And i agree! i just take exeption to someone telling a newbie that a tang is just "cool" in any tank size! They aren't! They're finicky, require extra care and are prone to disease! But i love mine!lol

Also, i'd love a wrasse, but don't want to cover my tank or make my tang mad, so i'm going without one for awhile! Maybe if the chromis or dottyback takes a dive, i'll consider one!

 

Answer to title: No.

 

Heres a picture of my tang and its growth rate.(In a lightly stocked 90)

7/15/2011 Date of purchase



11/6/2011



I knew that this fish had a fast growth rate but it still was shocking to me how fast it truly is. I have seen other people who say that they are slow growers but these people are keeping them in smaller tanks so it may be that some stunting is at work when they are housed in small aquariums. Good luck with whatever you finally decide. I love my Tomi there coloration and personality are somewhat underated.;D As you can see it has gotten much darker with age and I love him.
I would be wary of minimum tank sizes provided by vendors actually selling you the fish.After all it is to there advantage to have as many potential customers as possible; meaning there minimum tank sizes could be vastly undersized. What you also have to understand about me in particular is I rarely kill fish and have had many for 10 years or more(my record 21 years Golden Maroon Clown). Fish stores would never get rich on me.lol My point is that I may have a different view on whats appropriate in the long haul for some fish because my long haul is well,long!!! I hope my fellow 3reefers take these things into consideration when forming opinions about why I give the advise I do. Here is a good set of rules that has helped me achieve what I would hope would be the goal of any responsible reefer.

http://www.3reef.com/forums/new-hobby/simple-rules-avoid-ich-126326.html
Sorry for the long post. Welcome to 3reef!!You will find a great many experienced people on here who are quite pasionate about the hobby.

 

clearly you're mistaken vinny!

 

lol tang police i agree with red on this one. keep your tank right and all the parms good. feed the tang a healthy diet for him and he will be happy for years.

 

Ok the reason I asked about the qt tank is that I heard 10 was the minimum size so I just wanted to make sure last night I read up on all the requirements for kole and yellow tang ich feeding swimming all that good stuff and I came to the decision to get a kole tang love the colors and unusual thanks for putting up with me

 

No seriously thanks for putting up with us.

Welcome to 3reef. Excellent job on researching before you buy, that will save the animals you keep some grief and you a lot of money.

 

I all ways research now after my last tank and the clown tang themguy sold me he promised that it would be fine so I was like okay and then when I got home it had ich and the trigger I had bought hadn't been fed in days so long storie short the clown tang got huge fast killed the trigger and a gold maroon clown in a 70 gallon corner tank