Mom can I have a tang?

[FranklinP]

I have lots of natural stuff in my tank now from the wild. The main fish is a school of sheeps head minnows. They are omnivores and seem to be nice community fish. I have tons of blenny's (12? ) and a gobies of some sort all stay amongst the rocks. I also have a small quarter sized cow fish "Miss. Puff" I have scrubbed my rocks to remove the algae from them and stopped feeding so heavily. I have lots of vegitation for something to eat. I would like to purchase a small yellow tang to graze about the tank. I also have a seabae(?) Clown fish wich host a Purple tipped anenome.
A tang is $19 which would be about a 2" fish, This sadly for me is a big investment. I am concerned about the small white bone on the side of the tail, Pet shop guy said it is used as a defensive tool and if it scratches other fish it becomes infected. Then he sold me my dog food. Thanks for any help here. Here are some blurry pics if you haven't seen them yet.

http://www.iongun.com/reef

 

[ChrisRD]

A Yellow Tang should be fine in a tank that size. Plan on feeding it a lot of nori, dulse, etc. to help keep it fat and healthy.

Like most tangs, they can be aggressive with similar species, but other than that, I don't think you'll have any worries...

 

[SpicyBalls]

yeah, my yellow is pretty mello... it's never used the scalpel on any other fish... at most it'll swim backwards and wag it's tail to other fish to show them who's boss.. not def not overly aggressive
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[Dubge]

Then he sold me my dog food. http://www.iongun.com/reef

haha that sounds about right!

I have a yellow tang and he is just fine with all my other fish, he does tend to follow around my CBB and steal food from him when he picks it out of the rocks but other then that no problems (not that that is a problem)

 

[Baianotang]

Go for it.