Tangs - Constant myths!

[MFisher]

This is something I have dealt with time and time again back in my FW days. A pair will fight relentlessly and a dozen are too busy chasing each other around to significantly damage any of them. Look at a real reef. There are usually hundreds of tangs in big schools

Its the equvalent of being locked up in a house with one other person your whole life. You'd probably want to kill them after a while (unless she was hot

).

 

[johnny1]

well i would definitely say an 8" tank is too small for those

Nick

 

[esmithiii]

Man, Naesco is going to have a field day!

E

 

[Steve Richardson]

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'dont put triggers in reef tanks' ...Why cant people be a little less rigid in their opinions.

hmmm.. I tell people exactly that.

Many triggers are like sea-goats and will eat rocks, crabs, shrimp, worms, silicone, fingers, snails, tin cans, and old canvas tents if given the chance.

I dont have a problem with that advice as a general rule.

(shrug)

 

[danmhippo]

I think our job is to tell people the responsible way of stocking reef tank, instead of the extreme's. Yeah, sure I have seen people kept 10 tangs in a 75G. Is that the stocking practice that you would like to convey to the general public? You may have luck with some individual fish, but that does not equate to the behavioral pattern of most tangs out there. I have also seen people making comments that "the tangs will show off themselves from time to time, but no injuries or nothing....." Stuff like this is making me sick. Whomever knowing the tank size is inadequate, allowed the aggression and fishes' confrontation to be an everyday chore, yet, also tried to tell people this is the OK practice and Hey, if I can do it, you probably can too!

People making this kind of suggestion should move out of their house and live on the bus with 10 smelly crapping football players for the rest of their lives.

 

[Bucktronix]

whooo.. not bitter or anything

 

[naesco]

Alright, Esmithii, did you set up the troll?
I am not biting.

You can have one yellow or more than two but never two.
A purple, sohol and powder blue and clown, the most aggressive tangs in one tank. That it not a reef tank that is a cock fight ring!
If my country you would get arrested for that.

 

[Bucktronix]

not in vancouver they wont.. they are to busy smoking dope and linning up at the welfare office

 

[naesco]

Bucky I see that you have been a member of our board for one whole day and not only are you an expert on tang keeping but on cannabis as well.

On this forum reefers means people who raise coral and fish.
You got the wrong board Bud

 

[ACROPHORIA1]

i was thinking about putting a trigger in my reef tank to control my damn coral problem im having!!!!!!

 

[Bucktronix]

what does being new to this board have to do with anything?

i lived in vancouver for 20 years so i think i can speak my mind about the place! for those that don’t know vancouver it’s the dope capital of the world (and it’s hardly a secret) the hard working people of the city have to deal with its ill effects on a daily basis.

i am so tired of people who believe that their post count and registration date somehow gives them credentials. i come here to get information for answers that i don't know and to share what information that i do know.

this tread was started in response to my question i asked about a powder brown tang and there compatibility with my stock. some of the answers i got were to the effect that i shouldn’t have tangs in my reef at all or my tank was far to small to have 3 of them in the first place. tony was obviously trying in vain to demonstrate that there are some old school beliefs that should maybe rethought.

 

[EmilyB]

Bucky is also a skimmer expert I gather

 

[Bucktronix]

the hate

 

[naesco]

Geez Bucky! Can't you keep any secrets, man?

 

[Tony Quinn]

I have read numerous responses to people wishing to add more than one or two tangs to a tank, not because of space which is obviously a major consideration, but because of incompatibility!. I have an 8" reef tank and have 2 Yellows, 1 Purple, 1 Powder Blue, 2 Regals (1 8" long, the other 2" growing daily!), 1 Sohal , 1 Clown, 1 Lipstick (7")and not a fight to be seen as they have lived together for a long time. If you plan the stocking and add the most aggressive species last then you should not have a problem with incompatibility. Of course there are always exceptions to the rules. It seems that the same old statements come up all the time 'dont put more than one or two tangs in the same tank' 'dont put triggers in reef tanks' I have done both over the years and have had no problems. Why cant people be a little less rigid in their opinions.

 

[Mouse]

Bucktronix, it was me that told you you had too many tangs WITHOUT the addition of your powder brown.

At the end of the day i dont care what you do, stick anchovies up your nose for all i care. Still, it doesn't detract from the fact that you knowingly have an overstocked tank full of unsuitable fish, just like your freind here.

And im presumeing that in asking about the suitability of further additions you sought absolution from someone more ignorant than yourself. Your concience is undemanding to satisfy my freind.

 

[Scottis24]

Whatever Happened to helping each other out, God knows the LFS doesn't wnat anything more than our money...... But never mind me, I'm just a Dumb @$$ newbie, what could I possibly know.

 

[ACROPHORIA1]

my lfs RULES!!!!!!!!

 

[Scottis24]

Mine's OK, but way overpriced on a lot of things. The advice is good if you talk to the right people, bad if you get the wrong people....

 

[Bucktronix]

i have overstocked nothing! quit being a tang nazi mouse! 2 tangs in a 90 is hardly overstocking. what do you think they are doing in there, constatly fighting or ripping the corals up?