tang police again please..

youtube always has crazy overstocked tank videos, i saw one that some kid in japan owned that had 5 full grown angels in a 55 gallon tank and a full grown achilles and powder blue tang. along with a large maroon clown in a carpet anemone. it was way overstocked but it must of had great water quality to support a healthy looking anemone. of course it would have to for those fish not to die.

 

its just disgusting how people can do that. I just dont understand

 

Yeah one kid had a blue tang in a 29 biocube. I told home that even if the tang is 2" it still needs 125+ because it's such an active fish. Just because it isn't 12" doesn't meen it doesn't need room!!! Come on people...

 

yeah it is really such a common misconception.

 

The people where talking about probably went to petco and got bad advice. A few months ago I was going set up a 55g fowlr and the guy at petco said I could put a blue tang in a 55. Smh.

 

maybe a yellow tang but that is severely pushing the minimum tank size

 

Yeah it probably wouldn't be too happy.

 

yeah he posted a video, saying his lfs has kept one in a small tank for 3 years no problems, and it has stayed small.. its so ignorant. If I post a link to it, you all have to swear not to tell you found the video by me but simply scanning through youtube.

 

Deal. I don't really communicate with people on YouTube anyways.

 

There definitely are does and dont's with tangs. Most Small tangs can be in any tank. Its just a matter of the owner saying hey its to big for my tank, time to trade it in or sell it.