Will my yellow tang bully new tank mates?
Just added him to my 75 with green chromis, clowns,a filefish, and a tiger jawfish. I am planning on getting something midlayer medium sized- wrasse or firefish, and switching out the jawfish with probably some kind of blenny. questions: will the tang bully a new blatant fish i.e. a dottyback if I add more chromis that school he wont notice right? What kind blenny should i switch the jawfish out with? I was thinking a starry? Something territorial for personality, and so it defends itself from the tang
Yellow tang in 20 gallon?
tangs need 75+ gallons, they are in a temporary tank at the fish store while awaiting a proper home. you can have a tang and clowns together as long as the tank is 75 gallons, because tangs can be territorial and are very active fish. If you have seen a nano tank of 20 gallons with tangs and fish that need large tank, they are professional keepers in 20 gallons you have have 2 ocellaris clowns they are the smallest in the clown family, but they are the only fish you can have...good luck with that.
Mean Yellow Tang!!!!?
if there born with it they then should die with it .its only used in self deffence.i just bought a powder blue myself last week and had the same problem with my fox-face tried chasing the fox away but just kept at it this went on for a few hours even when i turned lights out i took fox out placed in a bag and changed everything around in the tank so that they all lost their territory and looked like a different tank they get along fine now
My yellow tang keeps turning brown?
The brown on your tank is from ammonia or salt burns. The water they are in now, is it from the main tank? Are you running a protein skimmer on the large tank and what are your water test readings? Also, how new is your tank? If it is less than a few months, your tank has not matured and the tank is going to go thru a lot a stress. However the other reason a tang will turn to a brown is due to poor lighting Same as the damsels turning white. If you ever noticed how white they look and how brown the tang looks when you first turn on the light? This is common. Remember the life of a light bulb is only so many hours and just because it kicks on doesnt mean it is working properly. Figure out how many hours you have on your bulbs. It doesn't hurt the fish to leave the lights on all the time. To see if it is a lighting problem or a water quality, leave the lights on all day and all night. If you notice the fish have not changed color, it is more than likely the bulb or the type of lighting isn't enough for your fish..
Can i keep a yellow tang fish in freshwater?
My grandpa had a fish that i believe was a yellow tang in a freshwater 55 gallon tank. The fish actually lived for a loonngg time. I think it was a yellow tang because it had the long snout, it was bright yellow, it was kinda big, and looked just like a yellow tang. So could i keep a yellow tang in freshwatter with little or no salt? He also had kois and goldfish with it soo.... he had to have had thw fishtank freshwater! I dont want a tang but i am just wondering if the fish that my grandpa had was a yellow tang. If it was not then what kind of fish could it have been? I also know that a 55 gal tank is too small for a tang but inthink it was a yellow tang.
Yellow Tang Died with Good Water Conditions?
The tank is too small for a tang of any size. Tang are very active and anxious fish with a high metabolism. They need space and forage ground that a 29 gallon simply cannot provide. The small tang are especially weak and sensitive, and although smaller, need larger stable tanks. It is super common, even in the wild, for the small tang to simply be overcome by any number of stress or danger and pass away. Any change in temperature, pH shift, sudden movement, hunger, or stress can kill a baby tang in no time. They need a conatant and steady supply of food, and 8 lbs of live rock is like having no forage grounds for a fish like a tang. Even with 50lbs of live rock he would have been hard pressed to find enough food to survive in that tank. They constantly eat. A feeding even once or twice a day would not have been enough to keep him healthy and alive. Don't get another tang for that tank, stick to fish appropriate for the tank size you have.
Yellow tangs turning orange near dorsal fin?
It is not common. From your description it could b the beginnings of lateral line erosion or a bacerial infection. First off, check water quality. Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH. Tangs are very sensitive to nitrite and will show stress easily of nitrite is present. Stray electrical current from heaters, powerheads, pumps, etc. can cause this. I suggest a grounding probe. They are under 410.00 and make your tank safer for you and the fish. Nutrition. Tangs are herbivorous. Feeding higher protein pellets and flakes will lead to problems. Get a lettuce clip and try to nori or even romaine. Try a spirulina flake. If you ensure good water quality, feed natural greens weekly at the minimum and check that current, your fish should thrive.
My yellow tang turns brown when i turn the lights on?
in my 29 gallon tank i have a full grown clown fish, yellow tang, dwarf hawkfish, and two damsels. Right now i have a 55 gallon tank cycling and im going to put the tang in that. During the day i turn the light off, and around 8 turn it on. Every time i turn the light on i see brown spots on my tang, but they go away after a while, how come it happens when the lights are off