Tang stock list

I have a 125, 6" tank, currently have a baby purple tang. Anyone have any opinions on another very colourful tang that I could add? Not too concerned about price

 

tank mates?

 

Yellow tang always adds that pop to any tank.

Edit, you have a purple tang already so not sure how a yellow would handle it. There the same body shape.

 

avoid buying one of the same species, since you have a Zebrasoma( the purple) you could look at the Acanthurus species, The powder blue is a nice colorful one, as is the Achilles. I would only recommend adding one more tang to your setup, while six feet seems long to us it a 125g is still smallish for multiple tangs. So if your going to add, I would recommend only two altogether.

 

What about a powder blue and a yellow eye kole tang, would that be overkill? It'd be nice to have a tang that eats hair algae as well as the powder blue

 

I would go with a kole, PB's aren't the easiest to keep and can get nasty like the purple.

 

Ok, are there any other ridiculously colourful fish that are reef safe?

 

anthias, wrasse, cardinalfish, assessors, basslets, clowns, etc

 

if it is a 6" tank then get that tang out of there!!! 6' on the other hand is a little better and you can add a chevron tang with an achillies tang!

 

Achilles and chevron tangs need a 6 x 2 x 2 tank at the very minimum. They are very active, get fairly large, and achilles tangs are very hard to keep/get feeding. Smaller fish like the ones I listed are a better choice.