What type of tang?

6 line wrasse?
banggai cardinal?

Schackmel--not to be contrary, but have you seen chunks of your corals missing where the fish are eating it? Sometimes (especially during outbreaks of algae), the fish are just grazing at algae on the corals and not harming the polyps.

 

YOU HAD A BLACK TANG?! And, you traded it in for store credit? I hope they gave you AT LEAST $400 for it as store credit. If I had a black tang, that thing wouldn't leave my tank until it truly outgrew the system I was keeping him in. Nevertheless, it's strange that your tangs were eating your corals. B/c there's a whole slew of tangs that look gorgeous in a reef system. I have a purple (of course, I only payed $40 for it), a scopas (not a mutated black tang) and a clown tang. However, I'd be willing to trade all of these guys for a black tang.

 

NO tang is 100 percent reef safe. No fish is for that matter but definately not tangs. IME about 90 percent of tangs (of any sort) prove to be reef friendly fish. Now with that being said, I have 3 tangs in my 150 gallon that are model citizens. You may wanna look at the leutenant tang. AWESOME FISH.

 

I like my sailfin tang.. It really looks good with fins wide open..


Later, Larry

 

Trust me....NOBODY believes me that I watched these fish eat my corals but they did;D

It all started with a renigage Red Sea Tang that decided to eat my clam. He bit a whole right in the middle of it. I had noticed that my other clams were withdrawing their mantles for a while. Then my very first clam that I had ever had, had a big hole in there. I tried to figure out what was wrong...(Gave it to my golden puffer for a nice treat).

I sat and watched the tank for days (I have no life ) Saw the red sea and the scribbled rabbit eat my open brain

I moved that to another tank thinking that it is one coral that is often picked on and is tempting.

However I then noticed my acan getting at (I LOVE THEM)
Before (just a few)




after:

this is my largest one...the one that I took with its feeding tentacles out


I personally watched the sailfin and the rabbit go after these. I managed to catch the sailfin a few weeks ago and bannished him to my puffer tank. I was hoping that now the instigator was gone the others would stop.

But nope...the rabbit and now the black mutant tang was going after them.

So talked with Curt and he said sometimes you can make them change their feeding habits by placing a strawberry cover over them. So I did last week


they actually started to fatten up a little and saw their feeding tentacles come back out.

MEANWHILE....my candy canes became the next target....several of them are down to the skeleton

So I knew something had to be done.

Thursday I took the cover off the acans when I went to feed the tank. I left it off for about an hour and watched BEFORE I fed and watched my blue regal come and bite one of them.

During htis time I questioned whether or not I was maybe starving my fish. So I increased the feedings from every other day to every day to 2x a day. I have always placed either a 2 sheets of nori or other algea sheets or 2 big leafs of romaine lettuce for them A DAY! It didnt matter

I felt like I had to make a choice then. I was afraid that I was going to loose my corals and did not see any other way. I have 7 clams right now, am going predominately SPS with a focus on Acan LPS (have 6 different colors and variety) Plus I did buy a $250 chalice that receeded already (Now question if they were eating that also) so the fish had to go.

The triggers did not harm my corals....since they were not the last in there, they have eaten any other fish right away that I have placed in there. And since I was going to get more fish I figured it was not a good idea to leave them.

So.......after all that;D the answer to you simple question is yes! :

Think the sailfin and the rabbit were the worst, but they taught the other 2 to have a liking to it

oh yeah....forgot one thing....the rabbit went bizzark when I placed the cover over them.....he went after the plastic for a day and kept pulling it up..even with rocks on it to hold it down...that is why the algea clip is holding it down

 

It was not a black tang per se....it was a mutant hybrid of something. Nobody except the guy I bought it from was able to tell me what it was amd I cant remember. It was black, had a blue line on the bottom fin, and had a white ring around its tail! Was not the black tang that everyone is after but cool all the same. He was as close to a black tang that I will ever get;D

 

Got a pic. I want to see this tang. Also look at the chevron tang in maturity before you decide on him. They really change. They are still pretty IMO

 

+1 Great looking fish

 

Expensive, and only cool looking while a juvenile. When they get adult age, they are grey, and that is it. I have to say when young, they are one of the most beautiful fish.

IMHO, better bristletooth tangs are 2 spot (Ctenochaetus binotatus), kole, and tomini tangs.

 

Wow. That's crazy. :-/